Critical Crystal
Critical Crystal
Song Information
Artist: 青龍
Composition/Arrangement: Seiryu
BPM: 191
Length: 1:54
Genre: DANCE SPEED
Movie: 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
None.
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 song list.
- 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.
- Critical Crystal is available in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS as part of the beatmania IIDX INFINITAS Music Pack vol.7 (beatmania IIDX INFINITAS 楽曲パック vol.7).
Song Production Information
Untranslated.
Video Production Information
Untranslated.
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 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA→Present | 1 | 6 | 8 | 11 | - | 6 | 9 | 11 | - |
| beatmania IIDX INFINITAS | - | 6 | 8 | 11 | - | 6 | 9 | 11 | - |
| beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE | - | 6 | 8 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020) | 1 | 6 | 8 | 11 | - | 6 | 9 | 11 | - |
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 |