New Songs: February 16th, 2012

[hi19hi19]

Imaginary Sky
Artist: Phantasma
Steps: DarkZtar
Dance / For Beginners / 1:12

I breathe the cosmos
Artist: asha
Steps: bmah
Purchased [1,500 Credits] / Challenging / 3:18

Etude On A Nimbus
Artist: MBurn
Steps: icontrolyourworld
Classical / Very Challenging / 2:36

Mahou no Fu (Veteran's File)
Artist: MOSAIC.WAV
Steps: MrPopadopalis25
Dance 2 / For Masters Only / 2:12

Also it is pertinent to note: Makiba has been made public today.

I was sick all yesterday so apologies on the lateness of the newspost. I'm writing it right now, but I thought I'd get the thread up so people can comment.

I'd also like to give a congratulations to icontrolyourworld for his first file in FFR, and a shoutout too to DarkZtar for his second file in FFR... clearly that three and a half years working on it paid off, I quite enjoyed it

[One Winged Angel]

I hope I'm the first of many to say that Imaginary Sky was the most fun I've had playing a 2.

The other three files were all amzin in their own right (too tired to get into specifics at 4:20am), really sick batch this week.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

I'm not able to play it but after watching the bot play Mahou no Fu looks like Pop just stepped most everything he heard. Pretty boring and just bleh looking. Would have preferred Nimbus as the vet chart.

But like I said I haven't played them yet.

Etude looks great, The 2 sounds good and Bmah's chart looks infuriating to AAA.

[Anaru]

Ahh.. I breathe the cosmos. I played that song a ton on SM because it's so good. :') Nostalgia'd..

[rushyrulz]

on Etude on a Nimbus it should be MBurns, not MBurn

[hi19hi19]

Originally Posted by rushyrulz

on Etude on a Nimbus it should be MBurns, not MBurn

I was wondering this myself.
His account is CMBurns on Thirdstyle, and he goes by Red Blank in their Backstage database... I'm thinking we should use one of these names.

[iironiic]

All very fun files (: I wish I can jack so that I don't have to missflag the jacky part of Mahou. :'(

Sightread the other three last night. I love these quality files :'). Probably the best batch of files this year so far (:

[Elite Ninja]

Can't wait to play these after school or sometime over the weekend.

[who_cares973]

Use red blank for etude on a nimbus

Also where the **** is stately, wrong >: [

[x_lambourghini_x]

Imaginary Sky: Decent file. I would bump it to a 3 IMO.
I breathe the cosmos: I loved the song and the file. It was definitely worth the purchase.
Etude On A Nimbus: Nice fun file filled with crazy amounts of stream.
Mahou no Fu: N/A because I don't have veteran status yet.

[sticklydude]

Imaginary Sky
Cool easy file.

I breathe the cosmos
Of course, since it's a bmah file, I can't AAA. :P
pretty cool patterns. Bursts screwed me up lolol

Etude On A Nimbus
Jumpstreaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.
I always like good jumpstreams 8)

Mahou no Fu
Dense jumpstream at ~1000 screwed me over. Fun file. Always a fan of Pop's files.

[bmah]

Mahou no Fu is really fun, but the dense jumpstreams screw me over, followed by the small set of jacks in the middle. If one of those doesn't mess me up, the other will. One of the few MOSAIC.WAV songs that I enjoy listening to though, which is why I'm willing to play it over again. [there's a noticeable error in the jumps near the end of the song however]

[rushyrulz]

Minijacks on Mahou :<
cameljack on cosmos :<

[Darkbreezee]

well havent been avaiable for me till now but Makiba is fun as hell
thanks Samurai for that file

[bmah]

Originally Posted by rushyrulz

cameljack on cosmos :<

They're not. They are just one-handed triples. Not fast enough to be a two-framer problem - if they were faster than 32nds, then maybe so.

[yo man im awesome]

Etude on a Nimbus <3

[rushyrulz]

Originally Posted by bmah

not a cameljack

close enough for who it's for

[hi19hi19]

Imaginary Sky
- Really one of the best easy files added in a while. The little grace notes were a nice touch, not overdone but good practice. Good length for a beginner file, too.
Not too much to critique, great song great file, hi5

I breathe the cosmos
- What the hell, I liked the overall flow of a bmah file? Surprises every day.
There was one (14)21 cameljack-y thing that was just uncalled for, not nearly as bad as Camel itself but (14)23 would have been so much more appropriate.
The first roll transitioned really well, but a few of the burst patterns 3/4 of the way through were not done the way I would have preferred. The first 24th burst goes 12314, which is strange feeling with the 16th polyrhythm and I'd imagine it would have flowed better as 12341, which could have been easily cheated as 12(34)1. The second burst was the one that bothered me most, it has a (13) jump in the middle which is always awkward to PA. I would definitely have preferred that roll going 1234(12)34 or some variant with a 1-handed jump similar to that. Considering this is undeniably the most difficult part of the file it pays to try to make it flow as smoothly as possible. The two bursts immediately afterwards felt great, good job with those transitions.
Also, with regards to minijack transitions, try favoring minijack transitions on the index fingers- they flow a lot better compared to the middle fingers, i.e. instead of (14)(34) use (13)(34). Just a thought.
Overall it's still not totally my style (as usual I swear bmah does just about everything the exact opposite of how I would step it haha), but not a bad file at all. Great song too, <3 asha

Etude on a Nimbus
- icyworld JS files, so good. Make more preez!
Also, song kicks ass.

Mahou no Fu
- Those minijacks are just ragebait lol
The jumpstreams could have flowed better. The main issue was (as usual) some long hidden 8th jacks, there was one random 10-ish long up arrow anchor in particular that I couldn't hear any musical justification for, and I found it difficult and awkward to hit.
Take a look at icy's Etude chart, despite some sections of his file having similarly dense jumpstream I think the longest 8th jack I noticed in his jumpstreams was 5 arrows long, and that's really one of the main reasons icy's JS files flow so well- he really seems to pay attention to that.
The jumpstreams and the triplets ending jumps also felt like they were "based" around 1324 patterns with split jumps instead of 1234 patterns with one-handed jumps, which is a type of pattern that is always more difficult to PA... I could continue my really long technical explanation here BUT suffice it to say, while the JS felt good it could have been improved to feel excellent with a few changes. Oh well.
That said, the good stuff: the layering was REALLY well done. Hands were used appropriately. The song was cool. Overall, definitely a nice file, no regrets

Originally Posted by Xx{Midnight}xX

Mahou no Fu looks like Pop just stepped most everything he heard

So you expected him to step stuff he didn't hear instead? I don't get it.
Okay man, I don't usually rant quite like this but it's kind of hard not to when you're just constantly spewing hate.
I don't know why you feel compelled to make a smartass remark about every new chart that gets added, with no constructive suggestions to back it up. What's your problem?
If you're going to constantly criticize people's stepping, at least go learn to step yourself first so you can have some basic knowledge of what you're talking about and can appreciate the effort other people put in before you spout random shit.

/rant

[yo man im awesome]

I'd just like to make note of something:

We have a "Song of the Week", and I've noticed that every week that It's just the most difficult file, at least difficulty wise. Shouldn't it be based off of the players' reception of the files? Then maybe have the "Song of the Week" determined the day after or the day after that.

[bmah]

Originally Posted by rushyrulz

close enough for who it's for

whoever first coined the term should be shot

edit@below: yeah and I didn't use cameljacks...now the "term" is being misused, stop spreading the infamy! >:[