Sega bringing Let's Tap to America @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on February 06, 2009

News: Are you ready for the sheer intensity of tapping on a box?

Sometimes you hear about a game concept and instantly think "that game must be coming from a Japanese developer". However you explain it, video games just work differently over there. Such is the case with Sega's new game Let's Tap.

Scheduled for release on the Wii this Summer, Let's Tap is being developed by Prope, a new studio formed by Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka. It asks players to place the Wii Remote on a box or other flat surface. Players then play the game by tapping the box, which the Wii Remote senses and moves an on screen character in time with the tapping. I swear, I'm not making that up.

If you still don't believe me, here is how Sega describes the game's five diferent modes:

Featuring five separate game modes with multiple levels and allowing up to four players for multiplayer action, Let's Tap presents an assortment of different finger-tapping challenges for players to master. In Tap Runner players use differing finger tapping pressure to make simple stick figure racers run through an obstacle course. In Visualizer players are allowed to create dazzling fireworks effects, dramatic paint strokes, amongst other effect as they tap out different rhythm patterns that correspond to different effects. Silent Blocks finds players taking turns removing blocks from a large stack, tapping too hard will result in a collapsing stack of blocks. Bubble Voyager allows players to fly through space, blasting obstacles and enemies in order to reach the far stretches of the universe. And finally Rhythm Tap allows players to time the taps of their fingers to high energy music.

We'll have more soon.