Chronophobia EVO 9: the sightread, frame by frame

Read the screens

1. 1

   The ladder on the select card: 6 / 9 / 11 / 14

   Chronophobia's select card shows the full ladder — MIN 6, EVO 9, ULT 11, FBD 14 — with the jacket art beside it and xi vs かねこちはる on the marquee. Those four numbers match the community wiki's song list exactly, so the card doubles as a cross-check before the run even starts.

   

2. 2

   EVOLVED 9, and a blank high score

   The player locks in difficulty 9 — EVOLVED, the 5K tier — and the HIGH SCORE row still reads "-": a genuine first attempt. To the right, the CONNECT gate offers its STORY and FELL routes, with Assist Mode enabled for this dive. That flag matters later: this is a tour of the chart, not a leaderboard bid.

   

3. 3

   Phase 0: four lettered lanes and two side bands

   The EVO field opens empty at 000'000'000. Four lanes carry the A-S-D-F labels, the left band reads Umschalt and the right band Leer — a narrower layout than the six-lane ULT and FORBIDDEN fields on our other chart pages. SPEED 7.00 stays pinned in the top-right HUD for the whole run.

   

The opening: first EXACTs

1. 4

   The first points: double EXACT

   002'253'171 inside the first half minute, on a double EXACT with a gold landing flash. At SPEED 7.00 the scroll is brisk but readable — the opening is a warm-up lap before the chart starts asking the hand to travel.

   

2. 5

   Combo 67 on a wide hold

   A violet hold field spans several lanes while the chain climbs through 67 at 011'848'810. EVO holds reward keeping pressure through the release — the sparkle riding the judgment line marks the sustained ticks, and letting go early is what turns them into NEARs.

   

The middle: lasers and the one NEAR

1. 6

   The cyan laser sweeps wide

   At 033'998'092 a cyan wide laser cuts across the right side of the field. Wide notes are where EVO differs most from MIN — one input answers several lanes at once, so the hand has to commit to the angle instead of chasing individual notes.

   

2. 7

   The LATE NEAR every sightread pays

   046'866'395, and the tag reads LATE NEAR — one of the 54 the result card will show. On a first read, NEARs cluster where the chart changes shape; the fix is learning the section, not raising the speed. The chain itself survives a NEAR — only BREAKs cut it.

   

3. 8

   Combo 105 on a triple EXACT

   The recovery: a gold flash lands a triple EXACT and the chain reads 105 at 065'211'470. Because NEARs don't break the chain, the score line never stops climbing — the run's problem child is accuracy, not survival.

   

The finish: cleared and counted

1. 9

   The finale asks in yellow

   Twin yellow triangles arrive over 087'014'620 with the chain at 173 — closing on the run's best stretch. The final section keeps the field busy right up to the last bar; there is no cooldown lap at the end of this chart.

   

2. 10

   A BREAK, a rebuild, and the last bars

   At 090'608'461 the counter shows a freshly rebuilt 10 — one of the run's 35 BREAKs bit the chain in the closing seconds. MAX LINK 196 on the result card means the longest link run came earlier; the sightread limps, but it finishes on its feet.

   

3. 11

   DIVE CLEARED

   The banner seals it. With Assist Mode enabled, 54 NEARs and 35 BREAKs spent, this was never a leaderboard run — it was a first read that stayed alive to the end, which is exactly what a sightread is for. The number that matters is on the next screen.

   

4. 12

   The card that counts 1,360 notes

   AA, score 095'161'993, MAX LINK 196, HIGH SCORE still "-", DIFFERENCE +095'442'338, MISS GAUGE 15. The judgment rows — EXACT 1161 and 110, NEAR 54, BREAK 35 — sum to 1,360: the EVO 9 note count, unrecorded on either community wiki until now.