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* Along with the CARDINAL GATE songs, it has a different color skin. 嘆きの樹 features a gold colored skin.
* Along with the CARDINAL GATE songs, it has a different color skin. 嘆きの樹 features a gold colored skin.
* Kinjishi (金獅子) translates to "Golden Lion".
* Kinjishi (金獅子) translates to "Golden Lion".
* In Standard Mode, the song marquee on the machine doesn't display the song title; instead, it repeats a series of words. This is another step forward from [[Mei|冥]]'s marquee display ("MEI<TAKASH>", which is slightly different from just displaying the song title).  When played on an unlocked machine, however (once the Cardinal Gate system has been disabled) the song marquee simply scrolls "NAGEKI NO KI" as any other song would.
* When 嘆きの樹 is played as an ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE, the arcade LED marquee doesn't display the song title; instead, it repeats a series of words: "GRIEVES DESTRUCTION MUTATION COLLAPSES SOLITUDE DEATH EVIL REGRET FRAGILE NIRVANA LAZINESS MIRAGE DESIRE IMPULSE INKING STAGNATION WHISPER CURSE DESPAIR RUIN SACRIFICE WORLD CONVICT SUFFERING SNEERS ADMONITION MAD DEGENERATION".


==Song Production Information==
== Song Production Information ==


The tree of lamentation
The tree of lamentation
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Still, I could never quite hit upon what I was trying to create, other people didn't really seem to get it, and even I couldn't understand the piece that well, so I added some Baroque-styled themes to develop the song which ended up giving it a very game-music style essence.<br/>
Still, I could never quite hit upon what I was trying to create, other people didn't really seem to get it, and even I couldn't understand the piece that well, so I added some Baroque-styled themes to develop the song which ended up giving it a very game-music style essence.<br/>
The song truly came to life when GOLI gave it the name "Nageki no Ki".
The song truly came to life when GOLI gave it the name "Nageki no ki".


Come to think of it, if I'd never had to make a song to be the king of kings, this song would never have been born.<br/>
Come to think of it, if I'd never had to make a song to be the king of kings, this song would never have been born.<br/>
As I'm ensnared by its peculiar sense, I have to give thanks to beatmania IIDX for giving me this opportunity.
As I'm ensnared by its peculiar sense, I have to give thanks to beatmania IIDX for giving me this opportunity.


==Video Production Information==
== Video Production Information ==


Indeed, that grief is as my own sustenance.
Indeed, that grief is as my own sustenance.
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Rather than try to call out any specific gods by name, or anything like that, I thought I'd make something a little more abstract, and picked up on the feelings of worry and emotional weariness.  A few related phrases scroll by on the screen below the monitor.  If you've got free time, try reading them all.  It's just a bunch of depressing words, nothing more.
Rather than try to call out any specific gods by name, or anything like that, I thought I'd make something a little more abstract, and picked up on the feelings of worry and emotional weariness.  A few related phrases scroll by on the screen below the monitor.  If you've got free time, try reading them all.  It's just a bunch of depressing words, nothing more.


This lump of feelings really seems to summarize the detritus of modern times.  This idea of "grief" serves to spin at the core of the layer animations for this song.  And the monster gods around it ... these are the spirits of those previously laid to ruin by the four devas, now revived by the "tree" of "lamentation" that envelopes these times of ours.  The key animations for "Nageki no Ki" are all golden to fit the name of the Golden Lion.  It's an image of left-over greed, useless confrontationalism, and finally an ominous ruin.
This lump of feelings really seems to summarize the detritus of modern times.  This idea of "grief" serves to spin at the core of the layer animations for this song.  And the monster gods around it ... these are the spirits of those previously laid to ruin by the four devas, now revived by the "tree" of "lamentation" that envelopes these times of ours.  The key animations for "Nageki no ki" are all golden to fit the name of the Golden Lion.  It's an image of left-over greed, useless confrontationalism, and finally an ominous ruin.


That's how we planned out the Four Devas project, which was full of fantasy elements.<br>
That's how we planned out the Four Devas project, which was full of fantasy elements.<br>
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I think a lot's happened and it's been rough,<br/>
I think a lot's happened and it's been rough,<br/>
But thanks a lot to all the staff who participated in this project!
But thanks a lot to all the staff who participated in this project!
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