One Saturday arcade addition begs another one on our weekly corner! Let's see what's around the corner, this time...
waitin' for u Jun Kuroda
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???Last Summer's end-week newcomers, in contrast to the past few years's rock-styled compositions, are all classed under the newly-molded Game&Variety genre, each being made by a Japanese artist with composing history in music gaming that are coming from a former independent album release from the same artist. The last of these conditions, however, has yet to be met by today's featured track, making it some sort of a 'black sheep' among last August's weekend warriors...
The peppy waitin' for u comes from the hands of Jun Kuroda, an active composer in the BMS scene we've already talked about with his Taiko-debut piece Coquette (link). In the same fashion of Nekomata Master's crossed-over beauty Scars of FAUNA, waitin' for u appears to be part of a 3-piece, artist-focused series of tracks that all share a similar title wording, each being released on a different medium at a different time. First off, in 2016, we have Longin' for u, an original piece that Jun Kuroda made for the commune310 compilation 3 album of the commune310 circle, focusing on multi-artist releases that featured dozens of independent composers along the years. The year after, on the other hand, it was the turn of SOUND VOLTEX's dreamin' for u, an original track that made it in after winning one of the series' many song contest. Given how both Longin' for u and dreamin' for u were extended in some of Jun Kuroda's solo albums (respectively his 2nd and 3rd ones, aspects and Into your memory), chances are a long version for this album-orphan original track might be on the cards.
What we can talk about right now, however, is its top-star Oni mode in Taiko gaming, charted by newcoming charter Chihara (ちはら) by applying a mixture of nearly every trick in the hat a modern 10-star Oni is capable of. Dense 1/24 cluster spikes, cluster hybrids in both 1/24 and 1/16 timing, scrolling speed bursts for solo giant notes- you name it! The average note amount and base BPM, however, make it a more accessible starting point when compared to other 10* colleagues that take any of the difficulty gimmicks singularly and truly stress out how far can they push the respective difficulty bar.
