Beat of The War 2

While the original "Beat of the War" never caught on, this sequel landed among the five most popular songs of its day. Its real boom came with ZERO: a new design trend of padding charts with freeze notes pushed even mid-level charts past 1000 notes, and this song benefited most of all. On Single, simply surviving the 3-note clusters made a 1000-combo easy to reach, while on Double the opening and closing long notes alone could carry a score past 4 million, making it a favorite for scoring runs. After NX2, however, score attack lost its importance, the levels were each lowered a notch, and the Double's signature "horse-riding" (말타기) sections drifted away from the chart conventions that solidified from Fiesta onward, so the song eventually slipped out of favor.

On PHOENIX the Single mode runs levels 4, 5, 7, 11, 17 and 21, with Double at 15 and 20. The S17 began life as a Crazy chart and was at first dismissed as underrated-easy next to Pump Me Amadeus and Mu-hon 2; it was cut to 16 in NX and held there through XX, but its long runtime, extended drills, unannounced 3-notes, mid-song speed changes and high-BPM twists earned it a return to 17 in PHOENIX. The S21, added in XX, is the work of MANWOL: it won Stepmachine's 2018 UCS contest, with judge EXC singling out its back half for praise, and is best known for its five-note "sewing machine" pattern. On Double, the D20 debuted as a Nightmare chart and sat at level 19 for a full twelve years before being re-rated; its central horse-riding section is the chart's biggest combo-breaker.

The BGA closes on a "To Be Continued" title card, yet no follow-up has ever been announced. In the XX 2.06.0 update, the character who appears in the animation was added as a playable avatar under the name Hannah. A Drum & Guitar remake of the song also exists, found only in NX-series missions, and was never officially promoted into the main game.