The Time Vampire :: FFR Batch Submission
DarkZtar - The Time Vampire - Virt [6.5 / 10]
Feb/March 2021
PublicEvents
Released
https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showpost.php?p=4273002&postcount=3
Some polys ignored in favor of single instrument emphasis or to avoid terrible transitions (poly + minijack into hand, etc)

Simfile Folder Name

The Time Vampire (DarkZtar)

Note Count

3930

Chart Length

4:20

Average NPS

15.2799

Estimated Difficulty

97.64

First Note

0:03

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x 56

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 1 3 - 371 4 - 334

Jumps

x 837

Hands

x 57

Quads

x 0

Color Jumps

x 10

Color Hands

x 0

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
10 - 30.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
13 - 26.00 nps 1 Second
22 - 22.00 nps 2 Seconds
42 - 21.00 nps 5 Seconds
101 - 20.20 nps 10 Seconds
191 - 19.10 nps 30 Seconds
546 - 18.20 nps 1 Minute
1056 - 17.60 nps

Color Count

x 1064 (27.07%)
x 896 (22.8%)
x 329 (8.37%)
x 1101 (28.02%)
x 317 (8.07%)
x 75 (1.91%)
x 32 (0.81%)
x 38 (0.97%)
x 78 (1.98%)

Largest Note Gaps

0.4s0.4s0.4s0.4s0.4s0.4s0.4s0.37s
35
28
21
14
7

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 3894 => 3937
AVG NPS changed: 15.13997 => 15.30715
Hand Bias changed: 60 => 59

The Time Vampire
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- Perms, sync, metadata good.

- 14.490: You've been pretty strict at keeping only the low notes on column 1 thus far, suggest moving this to [2] (and likely 14.690 to [1] in its stead, which fits because the low notes are now column 4).
- 35.892-36.592: Strikes me as a bit overdone--there's a bit less power to these sounds than the ones just before, yet it's charted with similar intensity. Would personally omit 35.942, and probably also make the 16th-24th polys just 24ths.
- 38.692: Add 16th here or remove at 39.492.
- 47.860: This is a bit incongruous with 47.593 being a plain hand (rather than a flam) imo.
- 57.394: Not sure what's going on here... you seem to be following the distorted scratchy sounds instead of the percussion (which plays 24ths) but in that case I'm not sure what 57.653 is for.
* 75.096: You start using 3-note jacks here, which is a substantial step up from 2-note minis, but it's very difficult to discern what's actually changed in the song as a player listening on 1.0. Highly recommend cutting back to 2-note minijacks, except possibly for the last two (at 76.297 and 76.697) because they're much more clearly repeated 3 times.
- 79.397: Would prefer the minijack and flam on different hands.
* 82.597: These polys are more aggressively patterned than the ones starting at 82.997, despite being much less clear audibly. Highly recommend toning down.
- 97.199: This is a heck of a pattern on the right hand.
- 98.999: Bit of a nitpick, but there's some pretty prominent percussion here to go along with your 16ths, I feel like 99.066 would be a more natural omission to mark the change in sound.
* 100.049: This is a goddamn fast trill. Sticks out like a sore thumb compared to your other bursts, I'd suggest a different pattern.
- 119.051: This 32nd is pretty subtle but makes this pattern pretty spicy, recommend omitting.
- 139.404, 140.204, 142.204, etc.: I'm not really sure what these go to, and I don't feel they really fit cohesively into this interlude. Suggest giving this section (mostly through 155.806, though there are still a couple things I'm not certain about until 181.409) another look because it's often hard to tell what's 24ths and what's not, and what's a burst and what's not.
- 170.566: Ghost note.
- 190.960: I can't hear this at all at full rate.
- 208.362: You usually separate the 32nd from the trill, suggest doing so here too.
* 217.513: This sequence is super right-hand biased, recommend evening it out some.
- 222.113: There's a very clear minijack starting at this jump, suggest using a minijack coming out of it instead of going into it.
- 227.114: This burst is done pretty differently from the others, suggest using slower but snappier patterns as you usually do for this kind of thing.
- 247.416: Another needlessly brutal right-handed pattern.

- I feel like your treatment of the vibrato is often a touch more aggressive than the sound really merits (e.g. 95.540, 105.533), and is often a bit hard to parse from a player's perspective (e.g. 92.723, 100.666).
- Polyrhythm usage also feels overzealous at times, e.g. 232.814-233.414--some of the 24ths you follow are very faint.
- Overall, it's not bad... but very, very busy and convoluted. I think the chart would benefit from a bit more focus at times, trimming the fat a bit. CQ on some general cleanup and clarification. Feel free to DM me if you want clarification, or input on an update. [6.5/10]

Fixed per judge notes.

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 3937 => 3930
AVG NPS changed: 15.30715 => 15.27994
Hand Bias changed: 59 => 56