ACE FOR ACES

ACE FOR ACES

Song Information

ACE FOR ACES' jacket.

Artist: TAG×U1
Composition/Arrangement: TAG, U1-ASAMi
BPM: 200 (BEGINNER/BASIC), 100-800 (DIFFICULT), 50-800 (EXPERT)
Length: 2:02
Movie: square_head
Jacket design: square_head
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution A
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

None.

Trivia

• ACE FOR ACES is DanceDanceRevolution A's ENCORE EXTRA STAGE song, available immediately after clearing ENDYMION as the EXTRA EXCLUSIVE LEVEL A song with a AA+ or better. Note that you require a PERFECT FULL COMBO on ACE FOR ACES' charts in order to clear it.
  • This marks the third time a PERFECT FULL COMBO is required to clear the ENCORE EXTRA STAGE, after LOVE IS THE POWER -Re:born- in DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX and Over The “Period” in DanceDanceRevolution (2014).
  • From April 26th, 2018, ACE FOR ACES can be accessed on EXTRA STAGE LEVEL 2 after completing RINON'S ADVENTURE.
• ACE FOR ACES is the first DanceDanceRevolution song to have different BPM values across difficulties; its DIFFICULT and EXPERT charts have BPM changes and stops that are not present in its BEGINNER or BASIC charts.
• As ENCORE EXTRA STAGE, ACE FOR ACES' video displays DanceDanceRevolution A's staff roll. It is full-screen, eliminating any on-screen dancers.
• RINON and YUNI appear in ACE FOR ACES' video.
• ACE FOR ACES' sync was improved on August 8th, 2017.
• ACE FOR ACES ranked #1 in the BEMANI Fan Site CHECK!SONGS Monthly Ranking list for August 2017.

Song Production Information

TAG

How many people we met and went away during this time.
Going away is never eternal, it was not a coincidence that we met.

To all the ACEs.

U1-ASAMi

Every age, the best ace creates enthusiasm and creates the future.

Video Production Information

Untranslated.

Jacket Design Information

square_head

The production approach to this jacket was a little bit special.

Speaking of how special it was, I aimed for a design that does not convey the atmosphere of the song through the jacket.

The reason I aimed for a visual like this is because I didn't want the jacket image to become a hindrance to the sense of excitement in discovering the entire song little by little.

This song being played is the Encore Extra Stage which requires a perfect full combo to clear.

Considering how the real pleasure of this song is in experiencing for one's self the excited feeling of "What kind of hook is this?!" that has become rare in recent music games, I came up with a design that would avoid the song's genre and its expected progression.

And thus the jacket was born.
There's a little bit of obsessiveness in the typography.

The artist lettering is what was used on the DDR A teaser site.
It also uses the A logo and the GAMEOVER font in unison.
Thus the letter A extends to the two words "ACE" and "ACES".

ACE FOR ACES is the conclusive song of a single story that starts with A and ends with A.
I am expressing the characteristics of such a song using typography.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	116 / 7	311 / 19	467 / 19	658 / 14	- / - / -	313 / 21	425 / 25	639 / 34	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution A→Present	4	7	13	15	-	7	13	15	-