Night Duty

"Night Duty" first appeared in Pump It Up 2011 FIESTA EX and stuck around through Infinity and FIESTA 2. Like a number of tracks from that era, it was removed in PRIME, only to be brought back in the XX update; it has stayed in the game ever since, now carrying the refreshed PHOENIX chart list. The Korean title refers to working the night shift, and the track itself is a piano performance credited to A.V. under the WONDERTRAVELER Project.

The Single side spans a gentle S3 up to a demanding S20, with S6, S9, S14, and S17 in between. S14 is widely seen as an "easy" chart for its level: it cruises along until the back half folds a bit of twist into its runs. S17 reuses the QE625 mission from FIESTA EX in toned-down form, with the card skin removed, all two- and three-panel notes reworked into single combos, and the density of the slow section eased. That low-speed stretch and the repeated taps at the very end are what make or break a clear. In the Infinity build, the slow gimmick was dropped entirely.

S20 is the headline chart. Its first slow section recalls Moonlight S19 and Twist of Fate (feat. Ruriling) S19, opening so densely that reading it is tough before the spacing widens out. After the second slow passage comes a wide-angle twist run befitting a level 20, making the chart a solid break-on target. On the Double side, D8 and D15 are simply S6 and S14 spread across both pads, with D15 a favorite for practicing Half-Double. D21 spreads S20 across both pads: many expected a 21 or even 22 given its weight-shifting, it launched as a 20 (a genuine level-20 boss song), and it was ultimately bumped up to 21 in PHOENIX.