Guys... I just have to tell you what just happened to me tonight. I cannot believe I have officially gotten a mental scar here. (it's on-topic, don't worry)
OK, let's see if I can make it a bit more... 'fantastic'? Okay here goes.
I'm on a really, really dangerous quest. It's called...
...kill everyone.

I have jumped into the death hole myself, yes, I know. But read further, because this... oh whatever, just read...
But it takes more than just jumping head first into an obstacle in order to conquer it.
Before anything else, that obstacle must eat you up first.
And by letting it consume you, you can destroy it from the inside.
This has worked for me many, many times, especially when trying to do impossible shit on video games. Taiko is no exception, as it was the same principle I used to clear the 4 initial god songs...
Moving on, I have quite an unusual position when trying to game up to beyond my maximum level: I stand up and go quite near the screen so that my line of vision is almost only on the screen...
...then I let myself exposed in lengthened durations to the sound of the game... something like a warm up, perhaps. But this time, I think it proved to be one of the worst things I have done.
As much as I felt the hyper rush when I let Rotter eat me, the flying feeling from Ryougen, the sense of danger from Kita, and the idea of chaos from Hataraku... but from Joubutsu... oh god...
So after I got the score above, I felt pretty confident. I then set an objective that I would get one run that would have less than 10 misses, so I played some more of this song.
More and more... more and more.
But I didn't feel like it ate me yet. If it did, then I would've been much, much closer to FCing it...
So I endulged more into it. I let myself 'change the environment' by finally surrounding myself with the song of Joubutsu Nisen and the Taiko strummings...
...which is to say, this is where it happened...
Just a few stanzas after the initial slowdown... I can hear the resonation of Joubutsu around the room more clearer and clearer as the song passed while I was playing it.
...with this, I can also hear the music in it's deepest audible sense. This is the part where I can fully imagine the song's supposed message...
...man how can I describe it...
...in a simple phrase...
it was fucking scary.I now realize why they had to put that simple flute arrangement as the main instrument that's audible in the song... once you hear the instruments BEHIND THE FLUTE, well for my case, it... gave me only the most eerie and scary sounds I can ever imagine. The incinerator was fully imaged in my head, and a quite clear picture of an apocalyptic scene (in all sense of the description...) went through my head in a flash of around 3 seconds...
...it was so fucking horror-inducing, I had to look at my walls to see if there was glass breaking or some sort of shit like
people dying or a massive manslaughter was happening... NOSHIT THIS WAS SERIOUSLY WHAT WAS GOING ON IN MY HEAD.
After having a clear image for 3 seconds, the resonation of Joubutsu suddenly quieted down a bit, and I had to sit down on the bed behind me, still continuing the Joubutsu play, trying to calm myself down. But since I was so distracted and horrified then, I couldn't play properly... really bad in fact, as I failed it, much to what one would expect. The mental image is still in my head right now by the way...
...what's even scarier is that after I failed it, the score I got was...
...
375640...
(...I wasn't able to screenshot it because I was just too fucking scared to do so)
After the song ended, I actually needed to do something just so I could get over it...
I played Kimi no Akari, Angel Dream and Kaze no Fantasy, shunyuu ~happy excursion~ (lol), Haya Saitama2000, and took a trip to the Dream Land for quite a while... then played Popcorn Parade almost 50 times,
and I still cannot sleep even now.I still cannot get fucking over it. This is the first time that music alone can fucking scare me, and worse, it was from a video game that doesn't even aim to do so.
Linda AI-CUE has a fucking deathwish. I swear...
...I don't feel like playing that song anymore. I am abandoning this quest...
EDIT: I realized I wasn't really able to fully describe the sound I heard when the music was going all over the room... well I don't bother to try and replicate that sound... but still... The description I wrote above isn't horrifying enough to tell how I felt, I swear.