![]() And you can see quite a few crazy players on Twitter who are amazing at it!Īnd with the motion controls, one important thing is that this is ‘air drums’. So if anyone is an advanced drum player and doesn’t want to just swing or make only simple sounds, then yes, there’s an option for those types of players where they can use the whole drum kit with the touchscreen or buttons. For advanced players who are used to MIDI controllers like keyboards or pads, maybe they have a good idea for understanding how to input real drums on this game. Of course, we designed this game for all ages, but we know there are real drummers who are going to say, “Hey, you play the kick on the right side? That’s not drums, that should be the hi-hat!” or, “A cymbal with both hands?” or, “What about this, what about that?” So we knew that was coming, and we designed this game to work for beginner to advanced players. So why don’t we just give players a kick, snare, and cymbal, since those are the basic elements when you learn the drums. But we figured out that that was too much, too complicated. When we got the green light for the Switch, we were trying to figure out different combinations of movements to make different sounds - maybe pointing a Joy-Con to the right to do a kick drum, or pointing it left to hit a snare, and up for the cymbal, or something like that. Well, we decided to make this game on the Switch, because swinging the Joy-Con is so fun and physical. ![]() I was really surprised by how extensive those alternative setups are, with a full drum kit layout for each - what was the thought behind the different control options? In addition to swinging the Joy-Con, Gal Metal also lets players drum on the touchscreen or with buttons. Also me personally, I used to be a drummer. So it’s a global concept to have that rhythm essence as a base, rather than playing guitar, or vocals, or anything like that. It might be actual drums, like a djembe from Africa or a conga from Latin percussion, or it might just be claps or stomps, but all music has rhythm as a basic element. That’s the main difference with Gal Metal.īecause drums are the basic glue of music. And players will want to learn from other players, and learn new tricks by watching other people play. If 100 people play, they’ll have 100 different patterns. In a regular rhythm game, if there are 100 players, they can each do a perfect combo, and it would give you the same song 100 times but not Gal Metal. The concept of this rhythm game is that it doesn’t tell you what to do. There are many parts and structures in the songs, from intros to peaks and parts where you might just go crazy with double kick drumming, so it’s all up to you, it’s all the user’s choice. But in learning that, you’ll be combining techniques to build your own rhythms in the songs. Unlike other music games, there are no arrows flying on the screen, and the game doesn’t tell you what to do - instead, you have to remember each element of the rhythms and, well, unfortunately, you have to learn! Things like basic drumming - right, right, left, right, right, right, left. So by combining those movements, you make your own rhythm. That’s the plot, and for the game side itself, you use the Joy-Con as drumsticks: you swing the right Joy-Con for the kick drum, the left for the snare, and both together to hit the cymbal. And because the girls in the band know that the aliens hate metal, they play metal against them. So when the aliens heard that music, they just started headbanging and couldn’t stop, and the music ruined their planet, so they came to Earth for revenge. Goode on there, but I know the truth: it was heavy metal. ![]() The reason why you play metal is that aliens are coming to Earth to destroy the humans, because the humans had sent a Golden Record up in the Voyager spacecraft with Earth music - and it was metal! Actually, history says that it was Johnny B. Tak Fujii: Gal Metal is a rhythm game where you play as the drummer in a heavy metal band. Nintendo Life: First of all, could you introduce Gal Metal for our readers? After getting in a few rounds, we were lucky enough to get to sit down and chat with Fujii-san about Gal Metal, modern music games, playing in bands, and drumming from the heart. A freestyle, heavy metal rhythm game from DMM Studios and legendary Producer Tak Fujii, Gal Metal has players swinging the Joy-Con to create their own drum lines to ward off invading aliens. While the Switch’s region-free setup means it’s easier than ever to sample experiences from across the gaming globe, Nintendo’s new policy can’t help us overcome the language barrier involved in imports - and that’s one reason we were so excited to see the formerly Japan-exclusive Gal Metal on XSEED’s localisation lineup at E3 this year.
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