Reviews
Division 1
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Song 1: Reaver Mansion
Stepartist: hi19hi19
Converted a little weirdly, but for what it is I am happy with the outcome.
Not a masterpiece, but it is easy to read for D1 and tests PA on grace notes/rolls, which was the main goal.
This song is actually like 10 minutes long, worth listening to the whole thing if you're in the mood for a nice slow guitar remix of some classical songs.
Song 2: To Zanarkand -cover-
Stepartist: Halogen-
Great sync! A few places the PR felt weird to me, but I tend to be overly sensitive to that kind of thing. Certainly it was well done in general.
The only thing was a 13(24) pattern that was super easy to split, sort of stuck out from the rest of the file and I would have gone with 23(14) or 12(34) for flow.
Mostly though, this file was very well done.
Division 2
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Song 1: Beast Within
Stepartist: hi19hi19
Turned out fine in FFR. I was worried about the 16th streams being too much, but they seemed appropriate.
The random 8th stream is a section I definitely could have done more with, and the chorus as just quarter note jumps wound up being too easy.
Fun fact: this was going to be the D1 file for Round 3 of my tournament, until I realized D1 would probably shit all over this file easily, so I had to make something harder.
Song 2: Ageha
Stepartist: ichliebekase
Some of the jump usage in the slow parts was a little odd to me, and I couldn't tell what the white arrows were going to.
The section of just quarter notes to the "dance" lyric could have been all jumps for a more consistent difficulty curve, possibly layering in the cymbal crashes as hands for variety.
Honestly though it flowed fairly well and, given what you had to work with, it's about the best you could do with this song. Not bad.
Division 3
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Song 1: Close My Eyes
Stepartist: Elite Ninja
dat nightcore
Pretty fun. No real inconsistencies that I felt and the patterns flowed well. The section of gallops that was only on 122112 was a bit troll-y though XD
Overall, fun and well made
Song 2: Revolt
Stepartist: Reshiram
A little odd, certainly not how I would have stepped this heh
Burst patterns felt nice, even the split rolls into (23) jumps had a nice flow. Not entirely sure what the color gimmicks were going to, or if they were just for sync.
Overall not bad from a technical standpoint but not a personal favorite.
Division 4
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Song 1: Shadows
Stepartist: iironiic
Wow. This was a really good file!
The repeating 14(14) section was interesting but didn't go on for too long, just the right length.
The jacks were appropriately handled, all the patterns made sense... this was just well made overall.
Perhaps my only complaint would be the number of white arrows at the end haha
p.s. I blackflagged it :'(
Song 2: Endless Maze
Stepartist: hi19hi19
Err, this is the wrong version of the file. My fixes had the 24ths as you requested, plus I fixed up the layering in other places too. Damn.
Whatever, file is still fun. Beginning drags on a little bit but overall it turned out quite nice. A shame I couldn't get this into FFR but lol submission caps
Division 5
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Song 1: 0x1311
Stepartist: Scintill
Lots of fun. Nicely chosen patterns, tastefully layered without going overboard. The varied rhythms give this a lot of replay value, looking forward to whoring it for the AAA!
I really like how you handled the quiet section, not sure if those are ghost arrows or not but they flow well so I don't care.
Song 2: S.Y.S.T.E.M.
Stepartist: Middie
Pretty much the only file I really didn't like this round.
It starts out pretty well, to be fair, but when the non-musically-justified 1-hand anchors kick in I no longer enjoy it. That section is super repetitive and the patterns are not fun to hit.
Then the ending jumpstream doesn't flow particularly well either.
Division 6
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Song 1: Torinouta (Noise Rave Mix)
Stepartist: Housekeeper
Dunno. Firstly, probably could have either stepped the talking in the long intro or cut it just for courtesy to tournament players who will be whoring it :/
Bursts felt fine, the harder ones were appropriately jumptrillable and the slower ones had decent patterns.
Layering was pretty consistent and made sense.The JS at the end had some tricky trill/anchor patterns in them that were no doubt intentionally hard to hit.
Overall very fun, but a little overstepped feeling. Unavoidable though with the layering you chose, so, all good.
Song 2: Bad Maniacs
Stepartist: Razor and DarkChrysalis
About the only thing I can complain about is that the patterns in the polyrhythm climax were a little weird to read, but it wasn't too bad and they mostly seemed to fit.
The beat and pacing of the song remind me strongly of The Rapids on FFR, a file I also really enjoy. I'll definitely be playing this one again for fun.