Soshite Yuusha wa Nemuri ni Tsuku D-D-Dice
そして勇者は眠りにつく／ 打打だいず
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★4 (208) |
★6 (229) |
★6 (285) |
★9 (569) |
★10 (1316) |
30-299
???One of three songs last year to make a public debut with a later Ura reveal for the final 2022 Ranking Dojo main courses alongside the already-digressed-upon SUPERNOVA, this was the first NamOri commissioned job being bestowed to one artist after earning some staying power in the Taiko series as the victor of two consecutive official music contests! The third drumming tune for the nicknamed D-D-Dice (打打だいず) is a chiptune-based one bearing a title that is very reminiscent to old-school RPG lines being delivered after the player's party is completely wiped out in battle (lit. "And The Hero Goes To Sleep", as in the Game Over-y kind of sleep), a reference that was put more on-the-nose with the song's official English title localization of "R.I.P. Hero" for General-Asia English Taiko cabs. Alongside the Faith Creation contest-winning Seigaitten, a long version for the tune was supplied for Hoshikuzu Monogatari (星屑物語), the artist's first solo album from last year.
Normally, most emerging artists with less than 5 years of public composing presence overall (let alone on Taiko!) have their own rocky grind before becoming well-spoken big shots among the music gaming general crows... something that apparently doesn't affect D-D-Dice, considering the extraordinary stream of accolades received since the last time we saw than name around here! A little over the span of a year and a half since the last SotW digression on this composer, we got plenty of contest wins/commissions -both solo and together with other composers- between bemani's SOUND VOLTEX (Juu no Shiren, Kakuen among these), Sega's CHUNITHM (Mei Tsuki, RELOVE REL1VE), Noxy Games's Lanota (Lucida Nota) and PeroPeroGames's Muse Dash (Kawai ku Karei ni Uchuu Kaito), not to mention seven still-unnamed songs to have received a posting-approved status for C4Cat's Dynamix, sometime off for future releases. Hell, he was one of two Grand Winners (alongside the nicknamed Ashrount) for the latest Arcaea music contest with the 4-hands-made Abstruse Dilemma... and he STILL made it to win one extra slot on the same contest with a solo (still unnamed) track! At this point, one would believe such an individual to actually be some other already-famous artist hiding behind another art name or something, because there sure is a lot to talk about someone who allegedly started creating music 3 years ago...
Away with the speculations though, and off to the chart talk! This RPG-sounding piece plays its hand more on the 1/16 charting side of things for one of modern times' non-licensed-genre lowest 9* Oni notecounts to wait, but the fattest Uno-Reverse card is played with its Ura Oni chart completely taking advantage of the note density potential that the tracks lays ground to, with a whopping 747 notes of difference! This is the steepest Regular-to-Ura notecount jump in Taiko history, counting almost 100 notes more on difference than the 2nd-placed, Vtuber-based Roppon no Bara to Sai no Uta and leading to a Max Combo that even trumps the summation of the KFMO chart notecounts of the same song! It's not a walk in the park either, being a more note-dense Yami no Mahou Shoujo-like chart with many a note density change along the way that still preys more on stamina drainage rather than average cluster intricacy. Still watch out for that 1/16 final stream, replacing the really small ending drumrolls of the easer difficulty settings!
