First Time

First Time

Song Information

First Time's jacket.

Artist: BEMANI Sound Team "Metal Stepper"
Composition/Arrangement: Konami Amusement (96)
BPM: 70-140
Length: 1:40
Jacket design: Kaito
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution A
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

None.

Trivia

• First Time is one of the qualifying round songs in the The 8th KONAMI Arcade Championship for DanceDanceRevolution A. It could be unlocked from November 29th, 2018 to January 7th, 2019 by registering for The 8th KONAMI Arcade Championship.
  • As of DanceDanceRevolution A20, it is available by default.
• Despite that First Time's BPM is shown as 70-140, its maximum BPM reaches 560.
• First Time is Daisuke Kurosawa's final original song in BEMANI, as well as his first song to appear in a BEMANI game since his departure from KONAMI.
  • According to Daisuke, First Time was made two years before its actual debut in DanceDanceRevolution A, back when he was still an in-house composer [1].
    • First Time's jacket does not contain the "BEMANI Sound Team" branding, as the jacket was likely made before October 2017, when songs started being credited to BEMANI Sound Team.
• First Time marks Daisuke Kurosawa's first and only use of his Metal Stepper alias in BEMANI.
• First Time's difficulty changes from DanceDanceRevolution A20 were applied to DanceDanceRevolution A on March 27th, 2019.

Song Production Information

Untranslated.

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	86 / 3	173 / 10	303 / 8	440 / 8	554 / 11 / 0	171 / 10	296 / 7	438 / 8	552 / 10 / 0
DanceDanceRevolution A (original ratings)	4	7	11	15	17	7	11	15	17
DanceDanceRevolution A→Present	4	7	11	15	↑18	7	11	15	↑18