Destination

"Destination" arrived in Pump It Up 2010 FIESTA and marked SHK's entry into the series catalog — it was the composer's very first PIU song. It plays at 150 BPM, a moderate tempo that shapes much of how it reads. Every chart at level 10 and above is built mostly around twists. Over time, the Singles proved to be underrated: S11, S16 and S18 were all harder than their printed numbers, so XX bumped them to S12, S17 and S19, and the old S19 eventually climbed to S20 in PHOENIX. In effect, nearly every Single chart except the low-level ones was re-rated upward.

The BGA, by JS, is openly comedic, drawn in a chunky, angular cartoon style. Matching the music's urgent pace, it follows a sniffly yellow bear who runs and hides from a cranky, distinctly quack-ish nurse. In the closing stretch the bear trips, gets caught and vaccinated, and is handed a hospital bill of laughably astronomical size — before tearing up the invoice and heading home.

The S13 (S11 at debut, later S12, now S13) is a twist-based chart famous for its stop gimmick: the music halts for roughly ten seconds, then suddenly restarts with notes appearing abruptly, which can catch players off-guard. That gimmick was removed starting in PHOENIX. The S17 was a level-16 boss through Prime 2 and drains stamina from the outset with staircases and hold notes. The S19 is a steep jump despite the mere two-level gap, scrapping the mid-song rest entirely. The S20 is the toughest Single, with harder opening twists and ultra-fast trills and staircases at the end that make an all-combo brutal. Among the Doubles, the D15 is the spread version of the S13, while the D20 mixes movement with 16th-note runs. The Short Cut set adds a crab-step D20 and a rest-free D21 — short but more demanding than many other 20s.