Moment Day

The song is MAX's arrangement of the Touhou track "Desire Drive," reworked for Pump It Up. The vocals are believed to use the VOCALOID Megpoid, while the whispered narration in the middle section comes from a separate sampled voice bank. The BGA was made by Lyrebird Ferdinant under the name VISREV. As a piece of trivia, the song was nearly ported to the EZ2AC series: it was fully mixed and shown off on a FOX-B stream before the NT launch, but because it is a Touhou arrangement it was dropped over licensing costs.

The low-level S3, S6 and S10 are deliberately built around twists: they are designed to be spun through, to the point where a player can get tangled up. All of them can instead be smudged rather than twisted, which makes them far easier; played with full twists they feel overrated, and smudged, underrated. At 158 BPM a veteran will barely register the speed, but for a newcomer it already feels brisk. The S15 opens on freezes for gauge before two bursts, while the S17 leans heavily on freezes to manage the gauge into a closing burst, with a few simple twists near the end.

The D11 is a Half-Double that uses only the middle six panels: a teaching chart for half-double beginners, since it packs in nearly every type of eighth-note twist. It sat at D9 through XX and was bumped to D11 in PHOENIX after being judged underrated. The D18, another concept chart, mixes twists with short bursts; it debuted as a 19 and was lowered to 18 in XX. The D23 is a classic run chart, made of bursts with almost no twisting, a stretch of axis trills, and a weight-shift burst finish.

The two-player Co-Op chart gives each side a different difficulty, with the blue (2P) side suited to co-op beginners. The game also shipped Quest Zone-exclusive charts added in Prime 2 1.05.0: a D17 subtitled "Osing Moment" and a D20 subtitled "Nimgo Moment."