New songs are coming for Nijiiro Version, and one per week at that! Starting from tomorrow, we're going to have four 'Weekend Warrior' additions in a row, each getting announced on the official blog one day ahead of its release. We're starting up with...
Nijｉiro Version New Song: August 15th, 2020
| Title |  |  |  |  | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GV | ALiVE REDALiCE | ★3 | ★4 | ★6 | ★9 |
One more factor differenciates this just-started Saturday additions trend from the rest: each of the songs' announcement posts will be followed by a short featurette with the artists' impressions on their newly-released song, followed by its Taiko Team notecharter getting a little insight about its chart's creation. The first song of this Summer's Saturday debutants is a song from a well-renowned HARDCORE TANO°C which was previously released for the label's group album HARDCORE SYNDROME 9. REDALiCE himself is quite happy to see this song getting ported as, by admission of the author himself, there's no exaggeration in saying this track has established his current composing style! Backing up the quick impressions is Marimo (まりも), the veteran Notechart Sentai member in charge of the song's charts.
When charting a song for Taiko means, Marimo always keeps in mind the general idea of "each song is one stage of the game", which leads to believe how to better arrange the elements of each 'stage' in order to make it memorable, just like the thought process that goes into making stages for games of different genres in general, such as action titles. The process usually goes to the 3-steps sequence of 'Setting the key elements and general feel of the stage → practice the stage → apply the key strategy to complete the stage', whose general ideas in place are not felt that distant when your game's "stages" are songs; that said, as enjoying the notechart is a key factor in music gaming to enjoy the song, weighting the notechart's difficulty degree and finesse at the same time is one of the greatest hurdles for those who are tasked to create notecharts for each song.
In regards of ALiVE, this last aspect is tackled by Marimo in some sort of a general "idea of harmonization" by featuring a key note formation staple multiple times -the 'DoKaKa' for this track in particular- while offering slight alterations of it as the song goes by, making such quirky aspect one of the 'key elements' of this particular 'stage' set by Marimo herself. Of course, hard sections are also factored in with one particularly nasty passage in the 2nd chorus repetition, but once the player gets a firmer grasp of the recurring 'DoKaKa' passages, playing the song will result into a smoother musical experience while tackling such hard bits with that mental image stored into a corner of the mind.
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