Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat

They did it! They added more songs!!

I gave this game 5 stars at launch praising how this is a near perfect conversion of the Nintendo Switch taiko, and that the taiko team should keep adding songs for this to become excellent. I had dropped my review to 2 stars after waiting 2+ months for an update on this game, and there being silence from the developers. This just changed yesterday, as they added a new leaderboard function, 10 additional songs, and gave the community the first official announcement that more songs will be added in the future! I appreciate this greatly as I pay for Apple Arcade primarily for this game. Thanks for giving us more content, if I could make a suggestion, a few songs every month would go a very long way versus a big song drop every 3 months. Regardless, this is a 5 star game for me again and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a fun and challenging rhythm game.

Lots of fun but does not compare to console versions

I’ve been a fan of taiko no tatsujin for a long time. I’ve played it on arcade, PS2,ps4,psvita, switch, 3ds, ds, and the Wii/Wii u. Needless to say I’ve played a lot of the series over the years. This game is very fun don’t get me wrong but it could have a lot more in it. Taiko on console has a lot of songs compared to this with some games having over 100 songs total this one has only 32 songs. It seems like they weren’t willing to put much music into this game. Another feature that could have been added is a story mode. At least 3 games have had one and only 2 have been translated for English audiences. The story mode provides a new way to play taiko keeping many entertained. The controls in this game are about the same as they are on the switch version. One thing that’s hard sometimes is hitting the right spot with your finger. A drum size slider would be a very nice addition to the settings just so a person could comfortably play

edit: added content

edit: I originally put my review at 4 stars due to a lack of content put forth by developer at launch. I’m happy to say they are adding many songs now and continue to do so! i hope more vocaloid songs and gaming songs are added. i’m a big fan of taiko so seeing this game on the app store was very exciting. it’s very easy to pick up and play and input is pretty accurate. my only issue and is what’s making me rate this at 4 stars is the lack of songs. it is a very limited selection even for base launch. i hope more songs are added soon otherwise i will keep my rating at 4 stars. it has only been two months since release so i understand it will take time to convert maps to the mobile version. please at least include lots of fan favorites!

good but a few criticisms

I've been a fan of the Nintendo Switch version of this game for a while, so I came into this with high expectations. The graphics and sound quality were very impressive, almost identical to the original. The controls were also easy, although I wish I could have skipped the tutorial in the beginning. There were significantly less songs than in the original, but that's to be expected, since this game comes with a 5$ monthly subscription, while the Switch version is 60$. I also noticed there were songs that you normally have to pay for in add-ons, such as Tale of Six Trillion Years and a Night, which was a nice surprise. I was a bit disappointed that there weren't any session skills, or at least to my knowledge there weren't. If there were, I didn't notice. I enjoyed the character customization feature. Overall, it's a nice port, and can be enjoyed without previous knowledge of the game.

Random missed notes

I would love to give this game 5 stars seeing as how it has been my favorite game for over a year now, but as of recently,(about the past week or so) I will tap the screen and the game won’t register it. At first I thought it might just be my device, and I thought nothing of it, but I soon realized none of my other games do this. This is an amazing game that I regularly lose time to(for better or for worse😅), but now the missed notes have caused me to lose point streaks that could have pushed me up the leaderboard significantly. I will always be a loyal fan of this game, but as of right now it is becoming impossible to ignore the points I am losing from this. Other then that, this is an amazing game that I recommend to all of my friends and I always look forward to the next updates. I hope the bug gets fixed soon, so I can play it to its full potential once again.

Arcade Exclusive?

I’ve never understood why developers insist on making games arcade exclusive. I’d happily pay $10 for the ability to play this game and “own” it like I do for the switch. Or even to have that as an option to begin with. Because from what I’ve read in other reviews, a lot of folks pay for Apple Arcade exclusively for this game. Not to mention you’re losing money by not doing that. The percentage you would make from arcade doesn’t even remotely compare to buying the base game, and having the ability to purchase song packs down the road, boosting the ability to pay your dev staff for more content, bug fixes, etc. If you make it more like a DLC vs a micro transaction, people are much more willing to buy stuff like that. Wanted to play today, but can’t due to me no longer wishing to pay for Apple Arcade. Not that I can’t I just don’t see the point in paying $7 for a month-month license to play the game. When I could just own it and be done.

Wonderful game, with only one flaw

This game looks and sounds amazing, and the song list is awesome; however, it would appear there is no way to pause the game other than moving my mouse to the pause button in the upper-left corner and clicking. One would expect hitting escape should pause the game, but that only pulls you out of fullscreen. The song keeps playing without you, and you have to go back into fullscreen with either the green button in the window controls or the standard ⌘ F shortcut. I suppose this could be due to the fact that the game is built to run on mobile devices, too, but I've seen plenty of other multi-platform games that use the escape key for pause.

Obsessed but can improve

I found this game on Xbox and I feel like there are pros and cons to both as I have seen. On Xbox, customization options are a lot stronger with your character and you can get coins to buy more songs, outfits, and drum sounds thru a shop but there’s no shop on the phone app. Also, where’s the added music packs for the phone version? On Xbox you can buy more song packs from studio ghibli, Naruto, dragon ball, etc. But the phone app has more songs than the Xbox version? It’s just a wierd set up. As far as the actual game itself goes, it’s wonderful and I love the fact there’s more songs to play, just with the store was still on the phone app and I could buy even more songs

Needs improvements but overall solid game

I think the game changed my daily scores for no reason: when I got the high score it displayed 600k, but then it changed to 400k on the same day(?) not sure why that was, scores only change if it’s on a different day, or if you scored higher in the same day. As well as, there’s a song titled “Butter-Fly”, but in Game Center it’s titled “Play tutorial again”. The game deducts points for minor errors, they also occasionally take points off without reason. Game Center isn’t 100% connected, when I click on the score board in the game, it won’t show the in game leader board. Please fix this. It would also be great if the game had an even simpler version so my device won’t lag. As well as, some songs and cosmetics seem inappropriate for kids.

Multiplayer lacking

First, this game is loads of fun. Like others, I wish there were more songs available. I have very little critique about the game itself or how it translates from console to mobile. The graphics are appealing, the gameplay is loads of fun, without the smaller issues I have with it, it would be a perfect game IMO. My biggest issue lies with the multiplayer feature. The gameplay is great, but it takes FOREVER to match with someone. I spend more time waiting for the game to find me an opponent, to the point where I give up after waiting 5+ minutes. It can’t possibly be this difficult to find an opponent? Other suggestions for improvement would be to make it easier to see your stats on a song, like you can do on the console version. I’d like to see more than just my top score on a song, and would like to see the breakdown of accuracy beyond just showing me it at the end of a song. I would also like to be able to control the size of the drum pad for red notes, as it’s easy to go out of bounds. I can’t imagine how annoying it is for those with large hands as my 2 thumbs together have issues, and I have small hands for a female.

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