Pavane

Doin reimagined Fauré's "Pavane" Op. 50 as a rhythm-game piece and released it under the generic V.A. banner when it debuted in 2011 FIESTA EX. The original BGA arrived a bit later in Pump It Up 2013 FIESTA 2, animated by Lyrebird Ferdinant, and was replaced again in Pump It Up XX by the same creator. Its coffins and crosses immediately call to mind the later boss song 1949. The difference is that 1949 leans toward rock and piles up far more graves, whereas "Pavane" shows fewer caskets but lands an eerie, genuinely unsettling effect thanks to how tightly the music and animation match.

In PHOENIX the song offers Single levels S3, S6, S10 and S17, plus Double D17 and D22. The old S3 was actually a Performance chart (SP2) that, along with many other charts of that type, was removed in PHOENIX. The S17 has no truly hard stretches apart from a stream in its back half; clearing it with an SS rank in XX or an SSS rank in PHOENIX earns the RUN LV.3 title. The D17 is a stamina chart: it opens with some hip twisting and one-foot long notes, drops a same-pad burst near the middle, and then unfolds a weight-shifting stream that, while steppable, drains you simply because it runs so long, capped by a slightly tricky finish. It sat at level 16 before XX and was later raised to 17.

The D22 concentrates its challenge in the middle, where a trill laced with interspersed notes must be handled carefully to avoid getting tangled. The closing section, with a couple of round trips up gapped staircases, serves as a break-on point and squeezes hard. Within its level it rates as upper-tier. The track also had a notable spot in the FIESTA EX Mission Zone, in mission QE 630, built on the Single 05 chart.