#rhythm: heavensdoor

[tsunagite]

Doodles pt 11, fight edition

[kira-moonrabbit]

As a rhythm game fan, I shall represent a few of my fave songs 🫡

系ぎて / Tsunagite by rintaro soma : https://youtu.be/q26OmWO8ccg

Serves as the climax at one of the biggest rhythm arcade game events ever. Despite its slow speed, it still packs a punch. The name translates to “connect (with me)”.

World Ender by sasakure.UK x TJ.hangneil : https://youtu.be/lAYw5ZTJztE

It’s hard to describe TJ.hangneil songs in general, since they’re “otherworldly”- in an alien-sorta sense. (sasakure and hangneil are the same person, but for RP purposes they collabed via “five-dimensional data interference”.)

Some others:

opia by rN: Neurofunk makes for pretty interesting sounds. (https://youtu.be/a9woc3gxC4E)

Upshift by Iriss-Frantzz: More of a typical “dance” genre. (https://youtu.be/twlSwHYPOG0)

Heavensdoor by LeaF: Meant to evoke a feeling of hollowness- ever heard a song with only kicks? (https://youtu.be/-r4DH6sJFDA)

Inori by 光吉猛修 VS 穴山大輔 VS Kai VS 水野健治 VS 大国奏音: Hard to describe this one, definitely feels like a Boss Song. (https://youtu.be/rjB6waYflTg)

That’s all I’ll put for now, sorry for the disturbance ^^’

Salutes you back, boss. Since I'm feeling epic... I'll tell you what I thought of every song! Long story short: Very good, and gave me a lot to think about... But under a cut for dashboardyness. There's also tangents!

系ぎて / Tsunagite - VERY niceys! Probably the coolest sequence of looking at a floating crystal ever, that music video is. It gave me a feeling of like... hope! beyond hellish circumstances! It was nice.

World Ender - It's like running... it makes me feel like running, and there's a countdown. The music video as displayed also definitely conveys SOMETHING.

As a whole, I can see why the above two songs were your first picks of showing off. They're real heavy hitters, emotionally... I'm no good at expressing how songs make me feel, but they give off the same sort of "hopeful desperation." One leans more on hope, the other on desperation.

As a side note, I've never really paid much attention to rhythm games that aren't a little silly with it (examples of being a little silly with it including rhythm heaven and rhythm doctor... yes, you can boo me off the stage). These all really make me want to reconsider, but at the same time, the video reccomendations youtube's been giving me on the side make it seem like they're liable to break your fingers if you play wrong. I can still definitely enjoy the music on the side. ...But speaking of music!!! whoops!!!!

opia - Neurofunk, huh. They love to give silly names to genres. A genre I know I like that I can give a name to is like, Slushwave. That sounds like something straight out of Hypnospace Outlaw, but no, it's real! And back to the song at hand, this gives me a solid first impression of what neurofunk is. I love the piano backing... It never quite fades into obscurity. Despite the beats being so fast, every sound counts! No wasted space. ...Music can never waste space, but you know what I mean.

Upshift - I admit, this got me to dance a little. Well, wiggle a little in my chair. Still! Listening to it again to keep it at the forefront of my thoughts is making me resume my silly wiggling. In fact, I can barely pause to write anything down... that's how you know something's really made me happy. I can't say anything about it because every time I try to think of something meaningful, I start wiggling happily instead of thinking!

Heavensdoor - At first, I got a little confused when I saw the turn of phrase "a song with only kicks." But now I understand. This song is something monks have to listen to in order to reach enlightenment in the subject of music, I think. But in all seriousness, it's preddy good. All evidence also shows that this song scares rhythm game players, which makes me honored that you showed a "normie" like me as a first suggestion.

But here's a small aside that your description made me think. You say heavensdoor is made to evoke hollowness... at first I went in thinking this was going to be lower key, and then I got surprised when it wasn't what I was thinking. And I guess it is lower key compared to the rest of these songs! It goes to show that hollowness has many meanings. Because it's got less "empty" hollowness and more "uncaring" hollowness to it, if that makes sense? Here, I gotta grab something.... Here, this song, Flicker Trail from Yume 2kki. I went in expecting something a bit more like this. I love me some ambiance-flavored music. But I also need things that aren't ambiance! And this is why I got so excited when I started listening, enough to start writing all this down. Music is good! i love music! i love talking about music!!!! Oh, but I have one last song to say my thoughts about....

Inori - You really saved the best for last, be it intentionally or no. This one's my favorite of this group you've shown me... I love songs where it feels like a battle for fate is going on. And it uses choirs preddy good too. This song SLAPS, if you pardon my french!!! i'm going to drag this to my bestie who has shown interest in music like this.

And last sidenote. I listened to these all while just staring and listening. But some people I know can only listen to new music while doing something else. That would make it tough to pay attention to the minutae of the song for me! But it does fill me with wonder... there's many ways to experience a song. And how you experience it will shape your opinion of it! It's a genuinely cool phenomena to me...

And that's all........ I'm going to have to restrain myself from giving a really detailed list of reccomendations back as thanks for the dinner, both because this post is already long enough, and because my music taste doesn't have many other songs like this (yet). But I can give you one song in exchange. Present World Overhaul from Len'en 3... it goes really nuts. it's noisy and kinda screechy. it's got trumpets for days. and most of all, it rewired my neurons. If you want a more proper description, alas, I'm not the one to call for normal music descriptions...

But anyways! thank you so so so much for the reccomendations!!! And hey, it's no disturbance if it's something i went and asked for!

[2dkapsddr]

December 15th, 2023 - Arcaea, FN Festival

heavensdoor 9.94M!!! woah!!! PM is definitely possible, just got put myself to it...!

aaaand a bit more fortnite since ya boi finally unlocked Poison!! (banger charts except lead www)

also this fortnite rhythm game is gettin Real serious LMFAO. got hired (unpaid) as a hitman by a friend to take down this artist he liked, so begrudgingly after a half hour of attempts, i stole a new record...!

[withinthetempestshesaw]

Heavensdoor beyond first try.

My hands hurt haha…

[tsunagite]

Rhythm gayming miscellaneous stuff

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Miscellaneous

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Miscellaneous

Random fact: Someone on the rankings in the current PJSK event mentions DA’AT -The First Seeker of Souls- on their profile and I was jumpscared by that.

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More wheel spinning, with a bonus Spasmodic

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Miscellaneous

I knew I already drew Heavensdoor a sword to be her weapon, but I completely forget it was suppose to be a gun…

Also a rendered drawing for once yippee

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Miscellaneous

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Answers!!

Fun fact! I had Non-Melodic, MALKUTH and larva planned since October, but only recently did I manage to finish them :’D

[tsunagite]

LeaF household.... Like all LeaF rhythms just have one massive house to live under together?

(that sounds really nice ngl)

Ye, bc there are times in BOF events where LeaF solos so might as well group ‘em together :^]

The only exceptions are Heavensdoor, who lives in Fragrant Sanctuary (a given), Armageddon who is who knows where, and Ka whom is… nonexistent.

Tho, Marenol tends to live between the LeaF household and the Team Herbicide base.