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KUGUTSU (꼭두각시) is a Pump It Up S18 chart. Community-rated difficulty tier: Mid (20 votes). BPM 220. See its tier ranking, play records, and community votes on ArcadeStat.
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With drills, high BPM, soflan, and even a bit of run, this song has every condition to drain your stamina. However, unless you completely misread the rhythm, the soflan isn't enough to cause bads or miss-chains. Because of this, the break on is surprisingly easy compared to its twisted visuals. Try to conserve your stamina and focus on running in the latter half without your feet freezing up. It's a higher difficulty than Matador, which is in the lower-middle of the same level. The fact that the song itself is so off-beat makes it very hard to catch the rhythm.
Among the mid-tier 18s, this feels on the easier side. The late-spike drills are tough, but if you don't mash, your judgment comes out pretty clean. From a 18 player's perspective, I think sightread clear is even possible.
I'm a self-proclaimed drill-disease patient, but this was one of the easiest 18s to clear. The 12-beat is slower than you'd think (equivalent to BPM 165 in 16-beat), so it's easy to get bad-locked by mashing too fast.
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It was hard to match the drill timing