Queen Of The Red

The song was added in patch 1.12.0. After "Bad Apple!!" entered the game in 1.09.0, Andamiro began licensing Japanese music far more aggressively, and BMS-scene composers who had almost never appeared in the series before started to trickle in. "Queen Of The Red" is part of that wave, and it is also featured on the AD:PIANO album. Its fast tempo over a sensitive piano line drew strong praise from the community.

The BGA, with visuals by MiLa, leans into the title: it depicts the Red Queen hypothesis, walking through human evolution and the changing modes of transportation over time. As a footnote, the original eye-catch carried a typo, "Visualizzed by MiLa"; it went uncorrected through XX and was only fixed in PHOENIX.

In PHOENIX the Single charts are S4, S7, S12, S15 and S18 (by BANNIE), with Double charts at D14, D16 and D19 (by DP3 IMBA). The S12 was rated 11 from Prime through XX, and the D14 was a 12. The Single charts are built around trills: stamina is the baseline and results can vary by player, and during the 79 trill you sometimes need to press the center note as well, though that is predictable enough. Watch the closing stretch, which has no twists but demands foot speed and chains into fairly long runs. On Double the trill again dominates: the rest of the chart sits at or below level 19, but off-beat single-foot doubles and stray off-beat notes worked into the trill cause bad-padding and scattered misses, making it a chart whose difficulty swings sharply by player. The S18 unlocks by clearing the S15 with an S rank, and the D19 by clearing the D16 with an S rank.