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Bemani x Touhou collaboration
Aba Matindesu!:
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To give a quick rundown, Konami, the company behind the Bemani line of rhythm games (and is pretty much responsible for the creation of the rhythm game genre as a whole), will be collaborating with 2hu music circles and releasing lots of content at Reitaisai next month. The games featured are Sound Voltex III (also known as that new dj whoosh-whoosh game), jubeat prop (rhythm whack-a-mole), Reflec Beat groovin'!! Upper (rhythm air hockey), and BeatStream (uhh... some touchscreen thing). This is also ostensibly a continuation of a last year's collaboration with Sega's maimai, Taito's Groove Coaster AC 2, and Bandai Namco's Taiko no Tatsujin, except of course there's more Touhou now.
Among the Bemani lineup, only Sound Voltex has had significant Touhou content, although many circles have already appeared across all the series with non-2hu stuff. Of the non-Bemani lineup, I'm sure maimai and GC have Touhou content, but I'm not too sure about Taiko no Tatsujin. Either way, this is the first explicitly Touhou-related event for most Bemani games, and I'm personally excited to see who's going to make the cut this time.
Gameplay vids for the curious:
jubeat
Reflec Beat
Sound Voltex
BeatStream
maimai
Groove Coaster
Taiko no Tatsujin
N-Forza:
Beatstream was launched with a fair amount of Touhou stuff too, actually. But yeah, I'm excited to see it being added to Reflec Beat and Jubeat now. Opens up what genres can be added and all that.
Also, I believe they may be selling a new Bemani/Touhou soundtrack at the event, as well as introducing songs rearranged by Bemani artists.
Soul Devour:
Yay, more Bemani stuff for them not to bring outside of Japan and SEA. Cool stuff and all, but I can't be very excited, especially following Bemani's announcement of 'global e-amusement'. What a farce that was.
No Pop'N though? Or IIDX? That seems kind of...odd.
Gpop:
--- Quote from: Aba Matindesu! on April 09, 2015, 12:48:01 AM ---Of the non-Bemani lineup, I'm sure maimai and GC have Touhou content, but I'm not too sure about Taiko no Tatsujin.
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Yeah it did. It had quite a few songs including that Yuuhei Satellite arrange of Last Remote and Demetori's Necrofantasia arrange (my favourite). As you can see, even the characters are in the game as well for these arranges :V
Maimai and Beatstream also have the songs but seem to focus more on the nico nico douga side of things, so they're including songs that were popular there.
Honestly, the biggest surprising ones are Reflec Beat and Jubeat as they never had Touhou arranges either. Sound Voltex is still the number one game for Touhou arranges in a rhythm game as not only do they have some really good arranges from Felt, ALiCE'S EMOTiON, Demetori, IRON ATTACK!, and such, they even have their own Touhou arranges specifically made for the game.
That said, I heavily recommend anyone to play Sound Voltex because of the huge list of Touhou arranges it has in the game right now (since the game's primary focus is on the doujin scene and doujin artists)
cuc:
At Reitaisai 12, Konami will release an arrange album titled "BEMANI?東方Project Ultimate MasterPieces", which contains Touhou arranges by Bemani big names like Power Of Nature and Nekomata Master:
http://www.konamistyle.jp/item/73096