Critical Crystal
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Critical Crystal
Song Information
Artist: 青龍
Composition/Arrangement: Seiryu
BPM: 191
Length: 1:54
Genre: DANCE SPEED
VJ: Taiyo Yamamoto
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA
Other Music Game Appearances:
- pop'n rhythmin 青龍パック
Lyrics
Various soundbites are heard.
Song Connections / Remixes
- The full version of Critical Crystal, titled Critical Crystal (BD MIX), appears on 青龍's first album, [[BLUE DRAGON (album)|BLUE DRAGON].
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 its own 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 songlist.
- 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 pop'n rhythmin, 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.
Song Production Information
Untranslated.
Video Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
pop'n rhythmin difficulty rated from 1 to 10. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | Normal | Hyper | Another | |
| 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 |
pop'n rhythmin
| Game | Difficulties | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hyper | EX | |
| Notecounts | 180 | 293 | 429 |
| pop'n rhythmin | 2 | 5 | 8 |