[NotITG] Misfits in the Prairie - Stage 5 - Neutrino

When the Misfits meet Aster, Tac and Lin push them to the brink of anxiousness...transforming Aster from a harmless Sheeb to a homicidal maniac. Subdue them and push onwards in your quest to the veil!
Download Misfits in the Prairie: github.com/aem...
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Neutrino was a song I had wanted to mod for literally over a year. I came across the song during a session of DDR A in November 2018 and I couldn't hear one bit of it, but was so intrigued by the BPM funnies I had to go home and listen to it later that night. I instantly fell in love with it, and I just had to mod it.
Enter Celestial Harbor, the RIP10.5 SRT hosted by Daikyi ( / yoshilkun . Stage 5, Dark Sheep (www.youtu.be/C...) came and went, and I felt inspired to create a character based around the title of the song, rather than the song itself. I threw together some lore involving my limited knowledge of alchemy (thanks Opus Magnum), used part of my alternate alias, "asteradd", and created Aster- a Sheeb (no, not sheep) on the run from the National Guard of their home planet, Enotis.
I'll be revealing more about Aster's past and future in an episodic series known as "Aster's Astral Adventure". Stay tuned for various files and cutscenes!
Moving on to some Funny Things in this file...
From the beginning, we've got Classics of CERiNG D-Pad. There's a reference to the jacket art of Neutrino here, which is also where I got the design for Aster's birthmarks under their eyes! There's a few other references to the jacket art later in the file- it gets pretty obvious as time goes on.
Fun fact! The astrological sign for Aries- y'know, the Ram...kind of has a similar look to the jacket art references (♈).
The concept for Melanosis- that whole thing with Aster turning "evil" or whatever...wasn't just inspired by the title "Dark Sheep", but also the evident mood change in Neutrino from the very harmless sounding beginning and the first drop. TaroNuke ( / taro4012 , who drew Aster's sprites for this stage, did an excellent job making that transition from Babey to Angy stand out with the inverted quad effect (he didn't even know the song was Neutrino...hoo hoo).
I really like how the counter-rotating orbits turned out @ 0:35 / 0:48. It's a subtle reference to Yggdrasil Leaf from NJSRT1, but also stays super intact with the overarching theme of Aster coming from outer space.
The sequence at 0:44 is absolutely my favorite part of Neutrino in terms of sound design. It's just...the coolest transitional sound ever and I decided to use a palette-switching CGA shader to make it Pop.
The wheel going into the 205 BPM section of the song is super cursed. I actually just copy-pasted the effect from the beginning and set the camera rotation + arrow counter-rotation to have the wheel face towards you, so during the transition out of this section, it's just going back to normal...
Another shoutout to TaroNuke for capturing that "Scary Face" aesthetic for the second half of Neutrino because I spammed the hell out of it in so many places...especially the little laugh before the final drop- it just Fits So Well. Speaking of which, the final drop is pretty much the effect that started it all- what I first envisioned in my head when I heard Neutrino!
There were like, so many jokes about how Aster was similar to Asriel from Undertale, in and out of the development circle- so I leaned into it fully for the ending of the file.
Thanks again to the community for supporting this Funny Little Sheeb...they're trying their best!
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HuΣeR - Neutrino
from DanceDanceRevolution A
Original Aster concept art by 7COMPUTATION
[HuΣeR]
KZbin (unofficial): / channel
[7COMPUTATION]
Twitter: / 7computation
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[SPECIAL THANKS]
TaroNuke (spritework): / taro4012
mirin (original inspiration for Aster’s voice): / andoretc
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[CONTACT ME!]
Website: cering.dev/
Twitter: / asteradd
Twitch: / cerhythm
Discord: CERiNG#0282
NOTITG Discord: noti.tg/discord
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[MISFITS LINEOUTS]
Full playthrough: • Misfits in the Prairie...
Stage 1 | Qualifier (Collab): • [NotITG] Misfits in th...
Stage 2 | DJ Sp3ct3r (drazilspirits): • [NotITG] Misfits in th...
Stage 3 | Tac (Tetaes): • [NotITG] Misfits in th...
Stage 4 | Lin (sorae): • [NotITG] Misfits in th...
Stage 5 | Aster (CERiNG): y-you are h-here...
Stage 6 | Auburn (kaypooma): • [NotITG] Misfits in th...
Stage 7 | Finale (Collab): • [NotITG] Misfits in th...
Stage 8 | Credits (Collab): • [NotITG] Misfits in th...

[@dancingmaractus]

1:29 oh look a sans undertale reference Meme aside, Being at mitfits was like a amazing time. So many emotions of thankfulness to express, but that could go into too many details. From the time you came up and hugged me, up to the end of misfits, Thank you. Your amazing :)

[@eMich1]

A Dancing Maractus that is an asriel pacifist route fight reference if anything ._.

[@dancingmaractus]

@@eMich1 context: I said dumb shit clips.twitch.tv/DrabAgitatedMosquitoUnSane

[@pora5000]

This entire file is an undertale reference just because of the fking song lmao

[@israelliven7463]

I already know the two differences between -YOSEFU's and CERiNG's mods!

[@cyberblue02]

its the fockin sheeb

[@eMich1]

I do have a question. When did the making of this file start?

[@CERiNG]

good question! i started and finished the first iteration of the chart itself on may 5th of 2019. the first draft was finished august 10th, and the first completed version (minus taronuke's sprite additions) was done on september 23rd.

[@eMich1]

CERiNG Thanks for the info!