SOUND VOLTEX ∇ (AC)

Insane thing for Konami to drop on my birthday.

We may have gotten Silksong before SDVX VII, but at least we got SDVX VII before GTA VI.

I remember floating around ideas of a white-and-green themed SDVX with either solarpunk/Frutiger Aero or cyberpunk aesthetics. I was wrong on the latter half but I like to think Rasis and Grace's techwear-looking outfits are at least tangentially related to cyberpunk...

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Stickied. Finally, the festo moment is over. EXCEED GEAR is dead. 🔥

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the absolute lack of self-awareness in making a new game of a series people make fun of for its abundance of sexualized kids and calling it something dangerously close to NAMBLA

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Maybe it's 'cause I'm Canadian but I've never heard of that organization until today.

Apparently a nabla is an inverted delta sign (∇) which means... Something in calculus. I dunno, I got a C- in Pre-Calc 12.

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With new version coming :

1. Is hexadiver event already over ?
2. I'm pretty sure Valiant Gate event will continue. But to be fair (as I said to my comment at another thread about controversial Benmai opinion), their latest phase of Valiant Gate is disappointing for just unlocking new XCD charts
3. Please bring automation paradise back. I love the arena and megamix battle, but lack of mode for remixing is just disappointing
4. I hope Valkyrie model exclusive songs will be unlocked for free
5. I'm pretty sure since ULT difficulty reveal at Valiant Gate, Konmai will have massive head scratch for thinking 5th difficulty for certain songs

1. Step aside Hexa Diver—it's time for Septa Diver to make its debut!
5. The way ULT's being utilized so far reminds me of Chunithm's Ultima difficulty, where instead of being a new difficulty frontier it's more there to shore up songs that may have had underwhelming Master charts—or in SDVX's case, MXM's/what-have-you.

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DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE THIS LOOKS SOOOOOOO AWESOMEEEEE!!!!!

They’re finally moving away from blue and pink!! Finally, a different color! Green!!!!!


It’s either children or they’re 18 years 0 months 0 weeks 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 1 second old 😭

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Wow, I didn't need to learn about that. The joys the internet brings into our lives.

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The more I look at the logo, the more I get Y2K vibes from it. The background doohickey looks like one of those skins for Windows Media Player that TikTokers go gaga over these days.

Paraphrasing what oukei said on Twitter, the circular element has a green grid that's kind of reminiscent of old-school GPS displays. That, combined with Grace in the announcement tweet telling us that "beyond the limits lies an unknown realm", implies this version might be themed around exploration? It would explain Rasis's otherwise anachronistic-looking lantern, too.

Does anyone here know calculus who can explain vector calculus, particularly del, gradient, divergence, and curl? I feel we need to be exploring what the heck a nabla means as a mathematical operator if we wanna understand what the theme is ahead of time.

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Eyyy, it's the most 1999 font to ever 1999.

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Metal Gear and Sound Voltex doing their best in 2025 to remind us which is the uppy triangly and which is the downy triangly.

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They need to put a remix of delta max on there.

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like with everything going on sdvx nabla gotta be a welcome surpise!

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∇MAX. It starts at 573 BPM and slows down with every beat

...Actually, there was a song like that made for a Stepmania pack years ago, but I digress.

Y'all know there's already a song in SDVX inspired by ΔMAX, right?

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Might as well say this while I still can, but it's gonna be hard to remember it's pronounced "Nabla", because my brain keeps thinking it's "Namla" or "Nambla"... at least, when the logo's not right in front of my face, anyway. XD

Definitely not mad that they announced a special edition eamusement pass with Grace's new design and I only found out three days too late for me to even try and get it.


Oh yeah, they've revealed the full designs for Rasis and Grace now. Those legwarmers look so comfy...


Some details I'm noticing:
- The card has a background that looks like a terrain map.
- It looks like Rasis is wearing hiking boots, and Grace is wearing trail runners?
- Is that a giant Swiss Army knife Grace is carrying???
- I noticed the key in Grace's hand pretty quickly, but it took me a while longer to notice she has a key ring on the bottom of her coat and that each of the keys spells out SDVX.

Based on what I'm seeing here, I think this entry's theme will most likely have something to do with exploration. Whether this means we're going to see solarpunk after all or if this is just more metaphorical and everything's gonna stay digital is yet to be seen.

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Their jackets scream snow/skiing to me especially the double sleeves that Rasis has
Maybe "nature" or mountain themed??? Or those things are involved in the theming?

Wait, you're right... I thought that was a visor Grace is wearing all along but they actually do resemble sci-fi ski goggles.

Finally, Sound Voltex: Pacific Northwest Edition.

Update: We've got our first look at the game's UI via an official BEMANI livestream. VOD timestamps are...

12:05: Title screen
12:24: Subscreen splash
12:46: Subscreen My Room menu



Would you believe me if I said that when I was imagining a white-and-green solarpunk SDVX earlier this year, I also imagined it with circular and rounded UI elements?...

Update 2: Holy shit Grace is the default navigator this time????


They've also announced the new songs already, as well as what data will transfer from Exceed Gear. Their official Twitter has already changed their branding to Nabla, too. At the rate they're announcing things, it's looking like Nabla could launch by January, let alone February or March.

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that's the most clothes i've ever seen on a girl in this game