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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.

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.

Let’s Tap! Official Website