Taiko no Tatsujin is a 1-2 player rhythm game with Japanese traditional taiko drums. The game is 1 on 1, versus style music game, and each game consists of three rounds or songs. Each song has it’s own difficulty, and both players may choose their own difficulty level in versus mode.

With a library of over 800 songs to choose from, and a variety of difficulty modifiers, players will use a pair of drumsticks to strike the large drum controllers as indicated with the scrolling on-screen prompt symbols to score, with the player with the highest accuracy winning!