Appassionata

Appassionata arrived with the Pump It Up PHOENIX 2.02 update as a Premium-mode-exclusive song and the boss song of that version. It is credited to three Indonesian composers already familiar to the series: Cashew, D_AAN and Jehezukiel. The track is a classical remake that speeds up the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, the famous "Appassionata" Op. 57. With its inclusion, all three of Beethoven's great sonatas are now represented in PIU, alongside the existing takes on the Pathetique and the Moonlight. The arrangement opens at 160 BPM and climbs across four bridges -170, 180, 190 and 200- before surging to 210 BPM in the final highlight. The BGA is handled by FuseBox.

It is PHOENIX's third S25 and D27, and the first such pair in the second version. The S22 drains stamina from the outset and closes with a fast 210 BPM run thick with long+short bracket streams. The high-end S25 carries a reputation as an overdone chart: it leans on near-impossible patterns and unfriendly foot placement, packing back-and-forth stairs, 2+1 streams, and a 16th-note 'sewing-machine' at 210 BPM that is barely hittable. The D25 stands out as the first and only Half chart at that level, with density comparable to a D26 despite the BPM. The D27, by contrast, was re-evaluated upward: although at reveal it was lumped in with the dreaded 'Paradox line' (ULTIMATUM, Neo Catharsis), it is now seen as a mid-tier 27 with sound pacing.

The four-player Co-Op chart ends by tracing the letters C, D and J, the initials of the three composers. In November 2024 a '2018 version' surfaced on Cashew's channel, suggesting the track had been in the works since around that year. As of the 2.08 update, only fifteen players had cleared the demanding D27.