We often talk about a collection of songs being grouped as a music game-exclusive series, so... how about a boundaries-crossing song series feature, for a change?
Xevel Tatsh / CHUNITHM| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x5 (232) | x7 (327) | x8 (623) | x10 (1129) |
Taiko 0 B
175-185
none
???Introduced for the 4th Tenkaichi Otogesai as a CHUNITHM-exclusive track and ported to the other Otogesai recurring parties for the tourney's next edition, this is a Tatsh song that is part of quite an interesting series of songs, all involving the same trifecta of talents, capital lettering and the tendency to end a song by pressing everything!
Alongside Tatsuya Shimitsu himself at the composing desk, Xevel has the recurring TatshMusicCircle guest artist Junko Hirata (平田純子) as the singer, with the nick-named MAYA both penning the song's lyrics and drawing its jacket art. This very same ensemble of talents was gathered three more times, for a now-newborne, cross-music-games song series that features the same cast and all has their song titles beginning with a capital 'X'. The first tune to start the trend was beatmania IIDX's Xepher, from the series' 12th title (Happy Sky), followed many years later by the Taiko series' very own Xa, the first Tatsh-labeled playable track for the franchise. Years come by, and Xevel made its debut on CHUNITHM Star (video), and roughly one year later it was the Groove Coaster series' turn, with the song Xand-roid. Who knows where and when the crossed-crossing syndrome will strike again into another music game series..!
Xevel's Taiko Oni notechart plays like an overdosed blending of Music Revolver and BLAZING VORTEX's Ura Oni, where the cluster complexity of the former and the sheer number of notes and note density of the latter are intertwined by a massive dose of 1/24 cluster spikes that are available in both pieces! Averaging at an impressive 8.90 hits-per-second ratio, this is the highest one for the Game Music genre to date.
