[A black silhouette of Senpai slowly fades in against a solid red background. He yelps as he clutches to himself before intense beams burst out from his face, causing a loud, distorted scream.]
Spirit: Direct contact with real humans, after being trapped in here for so long...
You don't mind your bodies being borrowed right? It's only fair...
Song Effects
Whenever Spirit moves, afterimages are created, and his idle animation is glitchy and moves extremely fast.
Trivia
Thorns' unique song effects can affect other characters by swapping Spirit out for someone else using the chart editor.
With a BPM of 190, Thorns is the fastest song released thus far.
Thorns previously did not use the pixel art-style death animation and the chiptune version of the Game Over music, unlike the other two tracks of Week 6. The regular death animation and Game Over music would play instead. This was fixed in version 0.2.7.1.
After the song ended but before the level was beaten, the vocals would repeatedly attempt to start again. This was due to the vocal track being shorter than the music track. Although this oddity is still present in the song's files, the voices bug was fixed in the Week 7 update.
Thorns coming after Roses reflects the proverb "every rose has its thorn."
The word "thorn" can refer to pain and distress, reflecting Spirit's situation. Additionally, "a thorn in one's side" is an idiom for something that causes persistent or constant annoyance or trouble.
Gallery
Senpai's death.
Senpai's death without any background.
"Direct contact with real humans, after being trapped in here for so long..."
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