Phantom

First added in Pump It Up ZERO, Phantom is BanYa's reworking of the famous overture from The Phantom of the Opera. Its BGA tells an invasion story: an alien race attacks Earth on the orders of a king who loathes humanity, lays waste to civilization, and ultimately conquers the planet. The most talked-about moment is the destruction of South Korea's National Assembly building. The same melody received another arrangement in the series, Phantom -Intermezzo-.

The S18 is the old Another Crazy. It first appeared as a level 19 in NX2, sat at 18 through NXA, was demoted to S17 in Fiesta to avoid duplicate levels (becoming a notorious underrated chart at that tier), and was rolled back to 18 in XX. The S19 (old Crazy) opens with the 753 951 twists and a forced low-speed stretch, then closes on a 32-beat barrage; learning the repeated end patterns makes it far more readable. Gentle introductory charts (S2, S7, S13) round out the set.

The Double level shuffle is a small saga. The old Another Nightmare, a Half-Double spread of the S19, was nerfed in XX, cutting away almost all of its signature slow section and swapping places with the old Nightmare. Many players disliked the change, arguing the low-speed passage was the song's very identity. Today the D21 (old Nightmare) features heavy 8-beat twists building to weight-shifting bursts with embedded 32-beats, comparable to Baroque Virus D20. The D15 was promoted to that level in PHOENIX after years at 12 and then 13. In XX, clearing the Half-Double version at SS rank or higher awarded the Half Lv.5 title. The old Freestyle chart (DP7) was removed in PHOENIX.