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[Infernal Monkey]

New screens~

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20081017/lets.htm

 

[Go319]

New screens~

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20081017/lets.htm

That looks hot as...damnit now i have the song back in my head...

 

[MGrant]

WHAT @ the text.

"Team Fortress is a team and class based action (something) computer game modification based on..."

 

[Go319]

WHAT @ the text.

"Team Fortress is a team and class based action (something) computer game modification based on..."

hmmm nice spot!...wonder whats going on there...

 

[Sciz]

It's quoting Wikipedia's page on QuakeWorld Team Fortress.

WHAT is a good way to put it. :lol

 

[Azure Dream]

Oh dear, Japanese developer got lazy... :lol
Or is there a secret "Bonk!" mode?

 

[Go319]

It's quoting Wikipedia's page on Quakeworld Team Fortress.

WHAT is a good way to put it. :lol

WHAT! :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Vinnk]

I posted my impressions on 4cr.

http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives/2008/10/15/tgs-hands-on-lets-tap/

<b>Note</b>: <i>To get full enjoyment out of this post, please open <a href="http://prope.sega.jp/letstap" target="_blank">this link </a>so you can hear the great music of Let’s Tap while you read.</i>

When this game was first announced a lot of people thought Yuji Naka, the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog and Nights, had finally lost his mind. He left Sega to start a company called Prope and this is their first full (non WiiWare) game. It didn’t make matters any better that he chose a very bizarre slogan to sell the game.

So yeah, here is a game where you don’t touch the Wii controller at all. You just put it down on a box (one is included but almost any will work) and you just tap on the box to control the games. The Wii Remote picks up the vibrations. It sounds.. Well it sounds dumb to be honest. But, morbidly curious, I loaded up the official homepage and fell in love with the music and trippy visuals. I still was far from convinced that the gameplay would be any good but I now wanted the soundtrack.

I also wanted to give the game a try. The demo at TGS was only one of the many games that will be found in the full package. It was some sort of "futuristic space hurdles" game. The art style really reminds me of games like Rez or Cosmic Smash. The gameplay however took me back even farther. It took me back to the days when my family would take me to Camp Forest Springs. It was a Christian family camp. I really don’t remember too much about it but I do remember that they had an arcade machine of Konami’s "Track and Field" and my cousin and I would play it all the time.

The game had no joystick, just two buttons you hit as fast as possible for running and another for jumping. Simple and elegant. It also looked really stupid to anyone watching. Let’s Tap has captured all of this. While drumming my fingers as fast as I could and trying to time my jumps, I felt like I was 8 again. I submit for you the following two videos.

<2 youtube videos go here>

Sadly, you can't see our fingers very well in those. Basically you just well... tap. The small taps make you run and the big taps make you jump. As you can see it took a bit of getting used to. The booth girl also played it before us and was really, really good. So it seems that you will be rewarded for practice.

There is also an interesting “visualizer mode” where you can create art by tapping different places on the box. I didn’t get to try this feature out but it did look interesting.

So what do I think about the game? It’s still too early to tell. If all the other games are as fun as the hurdles game, if all music is as good as the one track I have been listening to, and if they keep the game simple but still requiring skill, I think it will turn out great. Thats a lot of ifs. But Prope did manage to perk my interest and I will definitely be keeping an eye on this title. Regardless of how it turns out, I am getting the soundtrack. I’d tap that.

 

[Go319]

Thanks for the impressions Vinnk, is it safe to say the running parts play a little like Jungle Beat NGC?

that was awesome.

 

[firex]

Which season of The Wire is this game retelling again?

 

[Infernal Monkey]

New screens and a video

 

[marc^o^]

So crazy. So awesome.

 

[Segata Sanshiro]

I can't wait to play this again. I *loved* it at TGS.

 

[pakkit]

Game of the Stoner.

 

[RJT]

This is what Wii was made for. Game designer's creativity FTW!

 

[Varjet]

I hate it when this thread gets bumped. I always end up clicking the link in the OP and... choose your tapping game!

Edit:What the hell, different song?

 

[batbeg]

Pictures are simply beautiful, and I see a lot of fun looking premises in it. Can only load so much of the video, but it looks fun, and I bet this game will make for some awesome multiplayer, especially with friends doing real-world interference

 

[pakkit]

Pictures are simply beautiful, and I see a lot of fun looking premises in it. Can only load so much of the video, but it looks fun, and I bet this game will make for some awesome multiplayer, especially with friends doing real-world interference

Just go to the link in the OP and click on the second tab. Higher quality trailers there that load much faster.

Also, you guys weren't lying about this song. It's owning my soul.

 

[Haruspex]

It's lovely games like this that make you keep your Wii during the game droughts. And the music. <3

 

[pakkit]

It's lovely games like this that make you keep your Wii during the game droughts. And the music. <3

There ain't no game drought in '09 whatchu talkin' bout?

 

[sprsk]

Woah wait, this comes out in December.

 

[TunaLover]

Woah wait, this comes out in December.

I didn't prepare myself.

 

[brain_stew]

This game looks so SEGA it hurts, it really seems to capture the spirit of the Dreamcast and that can only be a good thing.

 

[DarkWish]

Wow, it's coming out in December in Japan? I can't wait for that so that I can figure out if I'm going to get this or not. And hopefully someone will upload the soundtrack, since apparently the music is very good. I haven't listened to it yet though, seeing as how I'm in class now.

But really, it sounds like a great concept. Let's just hope it works well and there's plenty to do in the game.

 

[Dascu]

Damn this game looks fun.

 

[Haruspex]

There ain't no game drought in '09 whatchu talkin' bout?

I'm talking about now, the 2009 software line-up is suitably quirky and original for my tastes.

 

[pakkit]

Woah wait, this comes out in December.

In all regions?

 

[Dascu]

I'm really not someone who buys mini-game collections, but I think I'll have to make an exception for this game. The music is amazing and the design is very stylish. That "shmup" mini-game looks damn cool too.

 

[oxygenal]

New screens and a video

Would love to see a gif with all the close-up faces :lol

 

[Blablurn]

aaah the screens feel a lot like project rub and crazy dreamcast games. <3

 

[Dragona Akehi]

I can't wait to play this again. I *loved* it at TGS.

-You look retarded while playing
-Stupid addictive OST
-Bunch of minigames
-Looks like XX/XY
-Holy shit I'm buying

 

[Go319]

lets fap
lets fap
SEGA fapping game...oh yea!

 

[Stormbringer]

Wow, there seems to be a fair number of big names working on this game's soundtrack. From an entry on Sega's site :


- Shinji Hosoe (Super Sweep) : Ridge Racer Series, Dragon Spirit,...
- Ayako Sasou (Super Sweep) : Technic Beat, Technic Disc, Street Fighter EX Series
- Masaharu Iwata (Basiscape) : ASH, Soul Calibur IV, Opoona (and much, much more),...
- Mitsuhiro Kaneda (Basiscape) : Odin Sphere, Opoona, Kumatanchi
- Noriyuki Kamikura (Basiscape) : Trauma Center DS 2, Opoona
- Azusa Chiba (Basiscape) - DonDonPachi Daifukkatsu, L no Kisetsu~invisible memories 2,...
- Naofumi Hataya (SEGA) - Burning Rangers, Space Channel 5,...
- Shoes (Missile Chewbacca) - Ram Rider, also worked on remixing Momoi Haruko songs.
- yam (PROPE) : remixed some MEG songs, as well as the soundtrack from the anime "Tekkon Kinkreet".


Additionally, this entry lists the 20 tracks which will be included in the Rhythm Tap minigame, each being created by a composer on that list.

 

[Haunted]

Naka's still got the touch.

-You look retarded while playing
-Stupid addictive OST
-Bunch of minigames
-Looks like XX/XY
-Holy shit I'm buying
-???
-Profit

fixed.

 

[ReiGun]

And just when I think Im over the song...someone bumps this thread. Im going to love this game with all my heart.

 

[Dragona Akehi]

Naka's still got the touch.


fixed.

The "looks like XX/XY" is the ??? for me. It's my (not-so)secret guilty pleasure.

 

[SilverLunar]

Maybe....maybe this will be the only mini-game collection that I will buy ...:0

 

[CTLance]

-Looks like XX/XY

Yesyesyes. I loved Rub Rabbits and Project Rub on the DS. I hope they can make a sequel to the two DS games sometimes in the future. Anyway, on topic: YES PLEASE. *puts on most-likely-buy list*

 

[Dragona Akehi]

Yesyesyes. I loved Rub Rabbits and Project Rub on the DS. I hope they can make a sequel to the two DS games sometimes in the future. Anyway, on topic: YES PLEASE. *puts on most-likely-buy list*

See, for most people that's a bad thing, since the game is supposed to suck.

 

[Fuu]

Seriously, if this is anything slightly like the Rub games I'll be all over it.

 

[Fantastical]

Wow, I'm actually anticipating this. Looks good/unique/crazy.

 

[Agalloch]

Ok,and now..Lezzuh Tappi !

 

[CTLance]

See, for most people that's a bad thing, since the game is supposed to suck.

I say this with the utmost respect for anyone involved, and I hope I do not offend anybody when I exclaim the following: Fuck those "other people". They're not invited to my party.

 

[Dragona Akehi]

I say this with the utmost respect for anyone involved, and I hope I do not offend anybody when I exclaim the following: Fuck those "other people". They're not invited to my party.

Well, obviously.

 

[Burai]

The "looks like XX/XY" is the ??? for me. It's my (not-so)secret guilty pleasure.

Nothing wrong with that. It was a great game, unfairly maligned during those short few months when the PSP could do no wrong.

The sequel was fucking dreadful though.

 

[Dash Kappei]

Wow, I hate minigames collection but this Prope effort seems right up my alley, crazy stuff.
Definitely buying if JGAF impressions are going to be positive.

Is there a date for EU?

 

[Gilgamesh]

I actually think this looks pretty interesting for a Wii minigame collection.

 

[Stormbringer]

Sound exhibition vids (Rhythm Tap) :

Demo 1

Demo 2

So damn catchy . Here is hoping the gameplay is as good as the soundtrack, because if that turns out to be the case, we could end up with a hit on our hands.

 

[Saint10118]

Sound exhibition vids (Rhythm Tap) :

Demo 1

Demo 2

So damn catchy . Here is hoping the gameplay is as good as the soundtrack, because if that turns out to be the case, we could end up with a hit on our hands.

Thanks for the bump!

Oh my god this OST is going to be out of control!!! First Rhythm Tengoku and now Let's Tap - lovin in my ears.

 

[batbeg]

Sound exhibition vids (Rhythm Tap) :

Demo 1

Demo 2

So damn catchy . Here is hoping the gameplay is as good as the soundtrack, because if that turns out to be the case, we could end up with a hit on our hands.

So good.