Saturn

This page is for the DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 song titled Saturn. For the inspiral carpets song of a similar title that appears in Dancing Stage Unleashed, please see SATURN 5.

Saturn

Song Information

Saturn's jacket.

Artist: Mr.Saturn
Composition/Arrangement: Mr.Saturn
BPM: 78-155 (DanceDanceRevolution), 155 (beatmania IIDX)
Length: 1:55
Genre: PROGRESSIVE TRIBAL
VJ: shiro
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS
• beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• The arcade version of DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 has a different version of Saturn instead of the one present on the CS counterpart of the game, the original soundtrack, and later games. Some time after the PS2 version of SuperNOVA2 came out, the audio for Saturn in its arcade counterpart got updated to this version.

Trivia

• Saturn was unlocked in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 for normal play on 1/17/2008.
• Saturn is Jun Wakita's first original song on the DanceDanceRevolution series of games.
  • Saturn is also the only one of Jun Wakita's DanceDanceRevolution original songs that has been crossovered to another BEMANI game.
• Saturn appears as downloadable content for DanceDanceRevolution S+, in the DDR SuperNOVA 2 Pack 3.
• Saturn is the first HEROIC GAUGE unlockable song of the OUR SPACE WAR (ぼくらの宇宙戦争) event of beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro.
• When it was first unlocked in beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro, Saturn's genre was mispelled as "PROGRESSIVE TRIVAL". This was fixed on the April 2nd, 2013 update.

Song Production Information

beatmania IIDX

Untranslated.

DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2

Mr.Saturn

Hello there..
Mr. Saturn, world champion fighter and savior of the world, here.
But you can call me Mr. Saturn, I don't mind. I could go on and on about this, but suffice to say I was told that this latest DDR is a planetary festival, and that I've become Saturn.
That's why I wrote a Saturn-like track. A Saturn-like track?
Yeah, I really don't get it either. Saturn (or Saturnus in Latin) was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Cronus, father of Zeus and god of the harvest.
Saturn loved eating so much that he devoured his own children.
So, I included a heavy mood and what sounds like a tribal war cry, and then wrapped it all up in some spacey goodness.
Is that Saturn-like?
I really don't know.
Since this was my first experience with DDR, that was enough to get my adrenaline flowing. What's more, I thought it was great how I didn't have to think in terms of sounds becoming buttons like a game, but when I actually got started writing the track and ended up blindly cramming in sounds that seemed like they could become buttons, I think it became an obsession or a kind of sickness.

DanceDanceRevolution X

This song projects an atmosphere of eeriness, giving us a sense of both grandeur and fear. Even though it's rhythm is Techno, composing it with a classical-inspired melody reflects this effect more than anything.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty				DP Difficulty
	Beginner	Normal	Hyper	Another	Normal	Hyper	Another
Notecounts	—	693	1040	1332	711	1091	1470
beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS	—	7	10	11	6	9	11
beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro→Present	—	7	10	11	6	↑10	11

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	88 / 0	179 / 8	267 / 16	337 / 27	- / - / -	148 / 10	233 / 16	299 / 54	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2	1	3	5	8	—	3	5	8	—
DanceDanceRevolution X→Present	3	7	9	13	—	5	9	13	—
DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 CS JP	1	3	5	8	—	3	5	8	—
DanceDanceRevolution X CS US	3	7	9	13	—	5	9	13	—
DanceDanceRevolution S+	3	7	9	13	—	—	—	—	—