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Thursday, February 13, 2020

First Video: Weathering The Tinplated Love: Nintendo Switch Version's mid-February DLC Drop



Aside from the updates to the Online Ranking Match mode, Nintendo Switch Version also has four series-debut DLC songs for you to splurge your pennies on.


Title
Ai ni Dekiru-koto wa Mada Aru Kai Weathering with You
愛にできることはまだあるかい/「天気の子」より
★2★2★4★5
(296)
★8
(429)
Grand Escape Weathering with You
グランドエスケープ/「天気の子」より
★3★3★5★8
(554)

Kaze-tachi no Koe Weathering with You
風たちの声/「天気の子」より
★4★6★7★9
(756)

Buriki no Dance Hinata Electric Works feat. Hatsune Miku
ブリキノダンス/日向電工 feat.初音ミク
★3★6★7★9
(828)


Above the jump is the new Vocaloid addition of Buriki no Dance. A lower ★9 that is only praying on the speed and the two longer mixed streams in the middle bridge, putting in only slightly higher than the likes of World's End Dancehall.



Next up are the three Weathering With You theme songs in the featured pack. Ai ni Dekiru-koto wa Mada Aru Kai is the easiest of the triplet, with a low BPM and most vocal-fitting 16th triples and 5-hit clusters in regular Oni. Ura Oni picks up the pace by filling in with apparent 32nds and longer streams, and a climbing scroll speed a la 366 Nichi and Himawari no Yakusoku.


In the same vein as the last song's Ura Oni is Grand Escape, except the other way round: the base BPM is always at the high point, but half scroll speed is applied at the start then brought up in steps. The pattern itself is simple when not reaching anywhere over 16th triples, but sections of large notes mixed into small notes and unresting AD-notechart patterns may pose reading and execution challenges.


The top contender for today is Kaze-tachi no Koe, which plays on even-number clusters under swing-rhythm at extremely high speed (240 BPM), similar to SPEED KING (205 BPM). The lack of even longer mixed streams (like Nyanyanya, 222 BPM) is a silver-lining blessing.