A crossover track brimming with soul is here to close the month of August!
ANiMA xi / from DEEMO
xi 「DEEMO」より
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★5 (182) |
★6 (310) |
★7 (559) |
★10 (839) |
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183.5
dema2m (Deemo ANiMA, as in 2=Ni)Keeping up with the ongoing news, the art-named xi has made it into Taiko gaming for the 8th time overall through a brand new Namco Original that is bound to haunt Ranking Dojo climbers in a few weeks from now! That's nothing to slouch around, considering how the artist's works thus far (judgement pending for his latest song's future Ura Oni) have always included a 10-star-rated mode being snuck somewhere into the mix. One of these past times, it was for one of the really rare times the franchise has had a proper rhythm game crossover...
One of the 2nd-round Deemo collaboration tracks (as well as the only console-debuting track of the quintet), ANiMA is one of the notorious early boss songs made for the original piano-based smartphone minigame by Rayark. It bears for title the Latin/Italian world for 'Soul' (with some application trackable in Jungian philosophy, nonetheless!) and its hardest chart in its original game was re-rated early on as a Lv.11, after a general consensus in the fandom en large to be harder than the originally-devised "boss song of the time", the M2U/Nicode joint work Myosotis. A long version for ANiMA was released in xi's third solo album: 2015's World Fragments, with the song getting some other crossover-y piece of action as part of the later-released Deemo collaboration pack on Rayark's Cytus II. You can't possibly go closer to a Deemo-like experience than playing the song there!
In-house BanNam composer steμ rose up to the charting challenge for xi's infamous OG piano gauntlet on Taiko by peppering its hardest mode with cluster after cluster after painfully-handswitching cluster. Pre-current-scoring-gen console/iOS players would be more than happy to also harp on how non-arcade scoring for the song is a nightmare due to the several passages of giant notes popping up consecutively, be it at a faster pace than the mainstay 1/16 charting or inbetween some of the more intricate parts in the latter half of the chart!
