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Sunday, August 14, 2011

pikaby asks: Most annoying songs to FC?

Okay, I take it mostly everyone gathered here would already have some prior experience with playing Taiko, so let's talk some more about our experiences, shall we? I wanna hear about the songs you find difficult to full combo or to clear. Oh, but not the bunch of 'hardest songs of all time', I'm talking about songs that are supposedly easier but still give you trouble when playing.

I have quite a few myself...and none of them are 10* Oni songs. Topping the list is Okashi Deka no Uta, the YMCK song. And I thought Family Dondon was bad...not only was this a much harder song overall, but the killer streak was incredibly tough to manage for me, the part where the lyrics are about chocolate cake and everything is at double speed. I bet it was tough on everyone, right? Not really; people left and right had already mastered the song in a matter of weeks. And it took me something close to 7 months to get my first FC for it, and even now it's still a lucky break for me to perfect this song, though I don't mess up as often now on the chocolate cake bit. One of the 10* songs which has this same 1/6 to 1/4 pattern that always kills me off is IN THE ZONE.

Another bulls*** challenge to FC is Make Inu Henjou, from the Muscle March series, which I just FC'ed last week. Eh, I lied, I've FCed the song months ago. But it wasn't a proper FC, after trying for ages to finish that crazy stream before the path change, I finally get it right...only to be pushed down to Advanced Notes. This frustrating thing has already happened to me lots of times before. If I do make it up to Master Notes where the speedup part is, I never make it through without at least one miss (much to my dismay), and I can easily polish off the remainder of the song on Advanced but I'd be missing a few notes off the mark. But I was so sick of it by that time I just relented and FCed the song with the final portion being on Advanced. Only recently did I finally get lucky and clear the final part on Master to get the true full combo.

And the third one is Don Engasu no Fuefuki. It's a lovely song, and the notechart is all fine and good, but the stream that always forces me to break is in the exact middle of the song, and replaying one whole minute of slow and easy again and again just to practice that stream is so tiring...sometimes I just forget it and enjoy the rest of the notes.


Okay, now that's enough about me. Let's hear some from you~!