beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ (AC)

Here's the remaining two songs from the event. If I had to hazard a guess dj Hellix could be MAX MAXIMIZER, but who knows. Also that DJ CHUCKY song is pretty cool; reminds me of SHOWDOWN TO LIVE from way back in GOTTAMIX2.

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Chart for Macuilxochitl is a really fun 11, and what I expected for this.

Here's hoping that Egret and Willow will get an extended version on the second volume of SINOBUZ' soundtrack or a possible 3rd album from Dirty Androids.

Surf on the Light - Tomoyuki Uchida was crossed over from Nostalgia,

While everyone was distracted with Cannon Ballers, a new BUZRA ARTS song dropped.

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WHOA

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Cool, more birds

BGA is already up, sounds pretty cool!

INVISIBLE STRIX sounds kind of old school L.E.D. to me. Good song.

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This is an awesome song with a cool video!
Maybe I shall play it when I go to Round 1 tomorrow~

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It does. Much like ACID VISION and OUTER LIMITS (which didn't appear on this game for once)

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It feels way more drum'n'bass-ey than neurofunk. I'd say this feels a bit more modern than old-school L.E.D. So far, my favorite of L.E.D's works.

Surprise! Two new Leggendaria songs added via unlock in Expert Mode..

Cosmic Cat and Icarus.

Charts for those interested:





Looks like Icarus's black another chart is back.

Looking at the three Expert Courses added, I'm surprised they didn't also drag 卑弥呼's black another chart in as well, since it's in the third course. Unless nobody's looked yet (which I *really* doubt).

Is there any info about IIDX lifebar's mechanics available? I'm curious how exactly difficult it is compared to other Bemani games, such as how much % of it each judgement fills/drains and how difficulty settings affect this.

I don't have any exact data (It's possible that filling the groove gauge depends on the song, but I can't tell for sure) but here's what I know about the lifebar in IIDX:

-Misses drain a good percentage.
-It takes a bunch of flashing greats to fill the bar 1%.
-It takes even more regular greats to fill the bar 1%.
-Goods will not recover life gauge.
-Getting flashing greats is hard. No one's full-flashing-great'ed anything above level 7 or so as far as I know.
-Groove gauge is BS, and there are a good number of charts that take advantage of this fact. You can get an AAA rank and miss 5 or so notes at the end, failing you out.
-Easy groove gauge seems to fill up faster and drain slower. It will still drop like a brick if you break combo every 4 notes.
-Hard groove gauge drains faster, fills slower, and fails you out if you hit zero. However, while you start at 20% with a normal gauge, hard gauge starts at the 100%. Plus, you just need to survive to the end, you won't fail if you finish below 80%. Ironically, this can make some songs easier to clear if you know what you're doing.

I don't think we can give it an exact comparison in difficulty to other Bemani games. After all, some Bemani games require to reach a certain score threshold, and others give you a lifebar. IIDX is... Pretty hardcore.

Don't forget EX Hard, which is a lot harder than the regular Hard gauge (drains faster than Hard). IIDX is a one of the hardest rhythm games, it takes a lot of time to master it.

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Note that the IIDX Groove Gauge changes in increments of 2%. It's only possible to have an even-numbered value. No failing with 79% percent, for example.

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For some clarifications, misses drain static amounts of life (I think only being at low life on survival type gauges will affect it), while life gain is affected at least by the amount of notes in a song. I can't say much anything about Goods other than knowing that someone used Hard gauge for getting all Goods on quasar, which makes sense if they don't give life.

As for Max+0 scores, searching 'IIDX Max+0' on youtube gives me videos of Max+0 records on EDEN, Shining World, and Fly Above on Another (and an Expand-Judge one for mosaic [A]).

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