A Namco Original with a novel way to achieve "unintended gatekeeping"... coming at you today, at the proverbial 11th hour once more!
Connect Colors Ponchi♪ feat. Haxchi
コネクトカラーズ／Ponchi♪ feat.はぁち
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC0 G NS2 (MP) Plus/STH RC |  | ★4 117 | ★6 169 | ★7 426 | ★10 872 | - |
45-280
cnctcl (Connect Colors)Daisuke Kurosawa's Dairokuten Maou, cosMo@BouSouP's Dangan Notes and today's tune share quite the interesting feat altogether: each of those songs did not register any Donder-Full Combo on their respective day of release (for the Ura Oni on Dangan, for both Oni settings on Dairokuten). One could ask why is that, considering this 10-star Oni treat doesn't draw close to the other above-cited charts' upper difficulties... but consider this: Connect Colors' release day under the Green Version firmware was also the first day when its Ranking Dojo's main final ranks were fully unlocked (with the song itself being the Meijin course's final treat), so chances are the top-dog arcade players might have been busier trying to quell Kaneko Chiharu's calamity of Greek descent than to study and ace this one here, on the first day!
Connect Colors is brought to us by the same duo behind the contest-winning Nijiiro Baton: composer Ponchi♪ and singer Haxchi. The first song in Taiko no Tatsujin from the duo was such a momentuous occasion to be emblazoned in greater lengths for thier first joint doujin album -February 2020's Kokoro Diary (ココロダイアリー)- for which is available both a remix from the aforementioned Kaneko Chiaru and the original song's extended version, going by the title of Connect Colors -Mirai Irodoru-kun e- (コネクトカラーズ -未来彩る君へ-, lit. 'To You who will Color the Future'). Its journey in Taiko titles is standing on stronger arcade footing still, with the mobile games encasing it within their subscription services being shut down and it currently being a Taiko Music Pass-only inclusion for Donderful/Rhythm Festival. Oddly enough, this last title subtly changed the subtitle artist credit by adding one space between the dot and Haxchi's name, so I guess that's still something to note!
It has the charting style of tracks like Tabaneito, the commonplace BPM value of a couple of 2000-series song and the multiple kinds of tempo signatures between clusters of Taiko Drum Monster(s)... combined with the gameplay footage above your heads, one would easily understand how this speedy accuracy nightmare is the final gatekeeper behind a Meijin course! While a few notes shy to have a Ban-Nam goroawase notecount on Oni, the same mode is charted in a way that the Nam-Combo value (765) is reached at the same time the song gives you a short respite, after the penultimate Go-Go Time portion (note stanza 144, the one where the vocalist goes 'Ne-!').
