Last week, somehow, we made it to reach the 1.000 followers milestone for our Facebook page! Truly, it's another proof to the sentiment that we couldn't have make it thus far with this blog without such a loyal audience.
Let's celebrate with a song feature that really loves to break the 3-digit boundary!
Silent Jealousy| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x4 (221) | x6 (309) | x7 (748) | x8 (1071) |
Taiko 0 W, Taiko 3DS 3, Taiko PS Vita
183
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xjapa2More than 10 years ago, the arcade Taiko debut of X-Japan's Kurenai has set quite the legacy as a licensed track, being the holder of the Oni mode with the highest number of notes for the longest time. Flash-forward to a few years back and a cryptic hint about the first PS Vita Taiko title's additional content teases the return of the renowned heavy metal band from Chiba!
Silent Jealousy made its debut on X-Japan's third studio album (Jealousy, released on July 1st, 1991), back when the band was simply known as 'X'. Much like the later-released Kurenai, the speed/metal style mixed in with symphonic elements that marked the band's early-career musical preference, as Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is referenced in the original song's piano bridge. Silent Jealousy's single release was set on September 11th, 1991; with over 230.000 copies sold in the debut year alone, it has become the 58th best-selling single of that year, topping the 3rd position in Oricon charts for an overall 18-weeks period of permanence. Alongside with Kurenai, Silent Jealousy was also featured in the short film X² (also known as Double-X, ダブルエックス), based on mangaka Clamp's X manga series.
Notecharter "Dark Attribute" Matsumoto (マツモト) was heavily involved into V Version commercials and teaser-related stunts, as well as the charter of that game's most difficult newcomers! Silent Jealousy is one of those tasks, for which has made what currently is the 8-star Oni with the highest number of notes to date; due to this fact, it's also the 8* Oni with the lowest point gain ratio of all time (approx. 280 points per perfect hit), even counting all the former console Taiko releases to date! In the same fashion of BLAZING VORTEX's regular Oni, this mode is mostly filled with mono-color clusters a-plenty (primarily Don-dominant) with many parts calling back to fragments of Kurenai's charting style, especially during the Go-Go Time-enhanced choruses. Watch out for the 2-hit color-alternating long note stream, though!
Silent Jealousy| Version | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | - | - | - | x10 (1408) |
Taiko 0 W, Taiko 3DS 3, Taiko PS Vita 183 none ???One of Taiko gaming's few special note-less, max-difficulty challenges also happens to be one of the all-time note-bearer champs, only topped off by Yuugen no Ran and its remix counterpart! When the max combo counters of both the regular and Ura Oni modes are combined, however, Silent Jealousy comes on top with 2479 notes between the two modes... and that saying something, considering some of the other newcoming song+Ura additions of V Version (Gimme Choco!! and, again, BLAZING VORTEX)!
As expectable, clearing the chart is more lenient on the stamina spectrum with even longer clusters/streams to reap some random errors along the way and a more profuse note color alternation trend all along the performance.
