Early
Early adjective - Relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period.
Key
Key adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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This happened more in 5-key and early IIDX though, but a few select songs on recent versions have had miss animations (most noticeably Anisakis).
Source: Video Game / beatmania -
However, as an effect of changes in what's popular in the worldwide EDM scene, hardcore music eventually became a lot more prominent in later styles and the softer music from the 5-key/early IIDX generation has generally been swept aside.
Source: Video Game / beatmania -
Early on in Detentionaire, Lee is given an octagonal key with retractable spikes.
Source: Cool Key
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