This week, we take a look at some of your maps, with some special unique features! Curious? Then read on...
From tetsutaro, we have this map from rising mobile rhythm game Cytus. Cytus, developed by Rayark, is played by hitting static notes in time with a moving time line, similar to DJMax Technika. The song is a band song with male vocals, and makes for a fairly typical 7*, nothing too difficult. But what's this, there's an Ura?
...and it's a first in this feature corner: it's a 2P chart! There are two variations of this Ura chart, one for Player 1 and one for Player 2, with the charts complimenting each other. It's not that much more difficult than the ordinary Oni, though, and is quite manageable if you can clear the normal Oni.
From crystalsuicune, bemani gets another representative. Hailing from the Reflec Beat series, VALANGA is Yoshihiro Takagawa (alias DJ TOTTO)'s debut song into bemani. As to the name, 'Valanga' is actually Italian for 'avalanche'.
With a high BPM of 186, the song allows for fast and complicated streams to match the frantic 'avalanche' the song is trying to convey, settling it nicely at 9*.
More bemani! From Lokamp, we have yet another debut song: Snowfield Express is TIME CAPSULE Lab.'s first foray into bemani, this time appearing first on pop'n music Sunny Park. It's also another high BPM song at 188, with fast and sometimes complicated streams.
And finally, from AxelHino, a song from the familar iDOLM@STER series, which is very much represented in Taiko no Tatsujin. This one, though, hasn't been in any official Namco release yet: Aoi Tori, which is idol Chihaya Kisaragi's image song. A slow BPM prevents the chart from getting too difficult, leaving it at a simple 5*.
