Critical Crystal

Critical Crystal

Song Information

Artist: 青龍
Composition/Arrangement: Seiryu
BPM: 191
Length: 1:54
Genre: DANCE SPEED
VJ: Taiyo Yamamoto
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA
Other Music Game Appearances:

• ポップンリズミン 青龍パック

Lyrics

Various soundbites are heard.

Song Connections / Remixes

• A long version of Critical Crystal, titled Critical Crystal (BD MIX), appears on 青龍's first album, BLUE DRAGON.
• A remix of Critical Crystal by brz, titled Critical Crystal (brz_remix), appears in SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS.

Trivia

• Critical Crystal is Ryutaro Nakahara's first beatmania IIDX original song under his 青龍 alias since VOX UP, from beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS.
• Alongside Adularia, Atröpøs, DARK LEGACY, and Overload Frontier, Critical Crystal is one of the beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA default songs to have a BEGINNER chart.
• Critical Crystal is the only solo 青龍 song to have a unique video.
• Critical Crystal is the only 青龍 song featured in the beatmania IIDX series that does not have high-pitched vocal samples.
• Critical Crystal is the only 青龍 song that is not a hidden song, but instead part of the game's default songlist.
• Critical Crystal's charts were supervised by Ryutaro Nakahara himself.
  • Interestingly, measures 73-78 of Critical Crystal's Single Player ANOTHER chart are exactly the same as waxing and wanding's measures 88-89 of the same difficulty repeated three times.
• Critical Crystal, 3y3s, and BLUE DRAGON mark Ryutaro Nakahara's first appearance as 青龍 in the pop'n music series.
• In ポップンリズミン, Critical Crystal is titled Critical Crystal (BD Mix).
• Critical Crystal is the first song from beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA to be transplanted to another BEMANI series.

Song Production Information

Untranslated.

Video Production Information

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Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
ポップンリズミン difficulty rated from 1 to 10. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts / Charge Notes	112 / 0	565 / 19	946 / 26	1495 / 31	574 / 23	975 / 26	1429 / 31	{{{8}}}	{{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA→Present	1	6	8	11	6	9	11	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}

ポップンリズミン

Game	Difficulties
	Normal	Hyper	EX
Notecounts	180	293	429
ポップンリズミン	2	5	8