Saturday, October 14, 2023

Song of the Week! 14 October 2023

 

At long last, we're back to talk about Game Music stuff!

Leviathan NeLiME / Deemo
      
NeLiME 「DEEMO」より
Game Genre
AC Nijiiro
NS1 (DLC)
Plus STH
★4
(223)
★7
(411)
★7
(536)
★9
(754)
-
110-185
demlev (Deemo - Leviathan)


It's a rare sight to witness Taiko collaborating with other music games these days, but when it happens it's usually involving songs whose titles are loosely related to the philosophy sphere, at least as of late. We've seen Misdeed from CHUNITHM in the past, but this also applies to one of the 5 tracks from the extended Deemo collaboration efforts, titled after the eponymous politic-structure-oriented book of Thomas Hobbes, not to mention it's the name for a legendary sea serpent, first digressed in the Bible!

Ths one Leviathan in particular is the creation of Korean/Japanese composer NeLiME (Twxtter; YouTube; SoundCloud), with big enphasis on the pronounciation as [Nelàim] in the same way as the green-glad citrus fruit. The bulk of the artist's work in music gaming can be found in Rayark's two Cytus titles, from the 2-playable-versions-available First Gate and a triloge of CODE NAME: songs (ZERO, GAMMA and SIGMA). On top of this lone contribution to Deemo, NeLiME also scored a Dynamix debut with the 'Gold Sumbission' song HYPER-NOVA.

This Deemo-turned-Cytus song (and more than once at that!) managed to also get ported to VOEZ and... Deemo again in its REBORN enhanced rerelease (link), before finally landing across Taiko shores. While not a fully-starred deal on Oni, it's still quite easy to be thrown off with many a different 1/16 cluster formations towards the end, especially if reying on the commonplace "repeating pattern" trends that many a rhythm game may embrace from time to time, even outside Taiko.