{"id":24118,"date":"2018-06-08T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/taiko_drum_master_will_be_getting_an_english_option_in_japan_this_august"},"modified":"2018-06-08T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:25:00","slug":"taiko-drum-master-will-be-getting-an-english-option-in-japan-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/taiko-drum-master-will-be-getting-an-english-option-in-japan-this-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiko: Drum Master Will Be Getting An English Option In Japan This August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/taiko_drum_master_will_be_getting_an_english_option_in_japan_this_august\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/taiko_drum_master_will_be_getting_an_english_option_in_japan_this_august\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news1.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/taiko_drum_master_will_be_getting_an_english_option_in_japan_this_august\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/taiko_drum_master_will_be_getting_an_english_option_in_japan_this_august\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;re big fans of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/taiko_drum_master\">Taiko: Drum Master<\/a><\/strong> here at Nintendo Life &#8211; or <strong>Taiko No Tatsujin<\/strong> as it&#8217;s known in the East &#8211; but while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/bandai_namcos_taiko_no_tatsujin_is_coming_to_switch_in_japan\">we were stoked to hear the series was making its way to Switch<\/a>, we were also frustrated it was seemingly being released with no consideration for us western percussionists. Well, while the game still isn&#8217;t getting an official release in the West just yet, it has been revealed the game will be getting an English version.<\/p>\n<p>An English version already exists on PS4, but it&#8217;s great to see the Switch version also getting a similar patch when it arrives in August. Considering the Nintendo version uses the motion controls of you Joy-Con to drum a sick beat, and includes music from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a>, it&#8217;s becoming a must-have import.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you make of Taiko Drum Master? Have you played it before, and if so, do you think it&#8217;s a good fit for Nintendo Switch?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re big fans of Taiko: Drum Master here at Nintendo Life &#8211; or Taiko No Tatsujin as it&#8217;s known in the East &#8211; but while we were stoked to hear the series was making its way to Switch, we were also frustrated it was seemingly being released with no consideration for us western percussionists. Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}