As you may know, most of the regularly-returning kinds of posts on this blog do follow a release schedule that is planned out in advance outside of a computer-and-keyboard's reach. Sometimes, however, a flight of fancy of mine might be just enough to change the schedule at the last second.
Let me tell you about one of such times...
Central Dogma Pt.1 Daisuke Kurosawa
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dogma1 (Central Dogma Pt.1)Central Dogma Pt.2 Daisuke Kurosawa
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189-284 dogma2 (Central Dogma Pt.2)Hades. Ever heard of it? In 2021, it was a a runaway success story from game developer Supergiant Games, integrating the top-down hack-and-slash gameplay approach that the studio is most known for into the randomic-in-nature roguelite approach from many a game in the past years, generating critical and public acclaim across PC/consoles and even driving a certain... anonymous den of cynism to elect the title as the "Least Worst Game" of its release year. I've been replaying it quite a while these past weeks and it's quite hard to miss out how the fight against the titular god of the Underworld is (also) played under a certain track whose solo guitar players are people high-caliber Donders might associate with a trilogy of fiendishly-hard tracks of their making.
The goodwill put on me by playing Hades compels me to star the two on Song of the Week shores once more, but as we've already digressed on Masahiro 'Godspeed' Aoki's other (to date) Taiko contribution as part of our Dragon Showcase, we're left with the last of Daisuke Kurosawa... another playable two-parter in Taiko lore after Sotsu Omeshiki and Megamina Sekai I-II, too! Central Dogma as a song title was chosen by the ex-Konami guitar player as a direct reference to the central dogma of molecular biology, dictating how the flow of genetic information that is transfered into a protein cannot be passed down to other nucleic components and thus marking down how the information road from DNA/RNA to the transcribed protein with their information is a one-way one. The same reference was caught on by the Taiko Team with DNA/RNA nods tucked onto the Oni title unlocks available across the two songs:
- Pt.1 Oni: Those Who Approach the Mystery of the Spiral (螺旋の謎に迫りし者)
- Pt.1 Ura Oni: Challenger of the Mystery of Mutation (変異の謎に挑みし者)
- Pt.2 Oni: The One Who Reached the Truth of the Double Helix (二重螺旋の真実に至りし者)
Every time I've had to pen about Taiko charts with a commonpace 240+ BPM, I've always had to either warn on how such a speed can even make its monocolor clusters a deadly threat to Full Combo attempts (or accuracy in generals) or to draw parallels to both of Venomous's Oni chart sharing the same raison d'etre (I mean, can you blame me?). If that's not enough, look no further than Part 1's Ura Oni gauntlet and see for yourself if you can sustain its closer-than-ever musical notation charting to a tee with all that handswitching in play! Part 2's Oni is a stepping stone inbetween the two, partly due the noticeable BPM shift of the first half which makes it for a more feasable drumming challenge on different cluster tempo signatures ended off with an averagely-sized note stream.
