Yet another 'Song of the Day' as Song of the Week... one making its Taiko debut on arcades today!
Destr0yer Sakuzyo feat. Nikki Simmons
削除 feat. Nikki Simmons
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| AC Nijiiro (Y4) |
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★4 (139) |
★6 (241) |
★6 (326) |
★7 (405) |
★10 (804) |
90-180
???Not happy enough from having a popular BMS submission nearing the upper echelons of Nijiiro's Year 4 Ranking Dojo, 2023's Weekend Warrior ranks also get enriched with another cold-classic among the last decade's Be-Source Music competitions, one to mark the Taiko return of another popular composer after another BMS winner and a year-starting Original...
As noted by the brief author notes on the song's original entry from 2018's G2R tournament (GO BACK TO YOUR ROOTS 2018 Climax), this has been the first song in four years from independent composer Sakuzyo (削除) to be made for a BMS contest, with his previous one being the G2R-contest-winning Altale. Just like his former BMS solo instrumental effort from 2014, Destr0yer's prominence managed to become both the 1st-placed on Individual Score ranking and the 2nd-placed on Individual Median ranking (being beat only by Widowmaker/Sobrem's Giselle), managing to play a big role into dragging its team as No.1 for Team Ranking in the process, made of also-Taiko-regulars xi and LeaF! This, however, wasn't Destr0yer's first commercial otoge rodeo to count, as beforehand the track could be found in Konami's SOUND VOLTEX, PeroPeroGames' Muse Dash, Marvelous's WACCA and Sega's usual arcade trilogy.
There's quite a bit to take a glance at when it comes to the song's vocalist, a talent from the Western hemishere! Nikki Simmons (Twxtter; Youtube) is a singer active in the United Kingdom, both for vocal singing duties and curation of her own video channel. Her first jump to notoriety into music gaming was with the launch of Rayark's Cytus II, as the singer of a remixed trilogy of songs by Kevin Penkin (Bullet Waiting For Me, Fireflies and Survive) and later on for the original song Perspectives, from the game's key artist KIVA. Music gaming aside, she's also lent a hefty hand on the musical department for another couple of projects in the early '20s: the OSTs for multiplatform action-adventure game No Straight Roads and the Anime transposition of the lucky Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari/Rising of the Shield Hero manga run!
Wouldn't you know it, we've got another couple of weeks with Ura Oni songs, back to back! No matter the difficulty you choose, however, you'll be treated the same with low-flowing charting all the way through, with the choice of the last Go-Go Time section's double-BPM, half-scrolling-speed trend and the incredibly-fast drumrolls at 12 times the base BPM's pace! These are only a hurdle on Oni mode, as an equally-fast giant Kat note awaits at a stanza's 4th main beat every time. At a first glance, it may sound like a revamped DEBSTEP! charting job for Destr0yer's Ura Oni chart, but -to steal the words of someone else from the TnT Discord server- it's more of a 24th note spam job like Dogbite before it. There's still something of the sorts near the end of it, though, so full-accuracy hunters might still keep a keen eye over that!
