Saturday, January 28, 2023

Song of the Week! 28 Jaunary 2023


Say hello to our first Ura Oni guest for 2023!

Fuuma Module 6768 Hisui
風魔モジュール6768/翡翠
Game Genre
NS2
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fmod (Fuuma Module)


One of the Donderful/Rhythm Festival launch songs with an Ura Oni setting built in (with the other one being Critical Velocity's ESCAPE FROM CRISIS), Fuuma Module 6768 was the latest song from Tsukuyomi Records's Hisui (翡翠), up until the release of Megamina Sekai III as part of the first Music Pass catalog updates.

According to the tune's author himself over Twitter (link), the song's title is actually related to the track in question, with 'Fuuma' hinting to a certain atmosphere, 'Module' refering to a certain tone and '6768' to the rhythm linking things together. In all likeliness, Hisui's hints from Twitter refer to the erratic key portion of the song, where each stanza plays out in a 6-7-6-8 beat sequence for a short while. You can see ingame where the portion begins and ends via gameplay-laden visual flairs, as the beginning of such piece in all modes will start with a burst of wind (with '風' in Fuuma standing for Wind in Japanese) and will end a bit further on with the next regular-speed-scrolling Go-Go Time zone's beginning (stanzas 51 to 66).

Both Oni chart settings play it relatively safe on the cluster-intricacy aspect, with an higher Kat note ratio for regular Oni and the Ura counterpart packing in mostly-monocolor cluster and stanza repetitions. The capricious gales of the playing lane will be your main adversary in either difficulty setting, sparing no punches even where there are no more notes to hit at the end, with three final x8 scrolling speed bursts!