The Ballad of Mona Lisa :: FFR Batch Submission
DarkZtar - The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At the Disco [7.5 / 10]
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Simfile Folder Name

The Ballad of Mona Lisa (DarkZtar)

Note Count

2235

Chart Length

2:29

Average NPS

15.3047

Estimated Difficulty

96.54

First Note

0:03

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x 17

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 0 3 - 107 4 - 257

Jumps

x 306

Hands

x 62

Quads

x 6

Color Jumps

x 3

Color Hands

x 1

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
10 - 30.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
16 - 32.00 nps 1 Second
26 - 26.00 nps 2 Seconds
45 - 22.50 nps 5 Seconds
107 - 21.40 nps 10 Seconds
206 - 20.60 nps 30 Seconds
604 - 20.13 nps 1 Minute
1044 - 17.40 nps

Color Count

x 506 (22.64%)
x 420 (18.79%)
x 132 (5.91%)
x 258 (11.54%)
x 113 (5.06%)
x 306 (13.69%)
x 82 (3.67%)
x 91 (4.07%)
x 327 (14.63%)

Largest Note Gaps

0.73s0.5s0.5s0.5s0.5s0.5s0.5s0.5s
35
28
21
14
7

Posting this here for archive sort of purposes, re: this file's permission status (deemed okay)

ACCEPT.

This is most likely pushing the edge of what FFR can and should have in terms of abstract charting, but it has very good flow and matches the song super well. Most of the lyrics feel relevant to the patterns which is very satisfying. I will say however that 2:17.868 is a significant spike that could probably be nerfed a little, especially given that the section is already draining enough to not require such a spike on the high vocals. Really nice chart.

Reject -- the choruses are pretty interesting though a bit on the heavy side, but I generally found the vocals in the chart to be really really hard to follow even after multiple playthroughs, especially in the verses. The combination of really fast and loose layering of syllables and layering of softer and usually insignificant parts of syllables are what throw me off in the chart for the most part.

There are longer strings of continuous 24th JS to consecutive syllables (e.g. 16.660 to 17.143), and I feel that the breaths of syllables are emphasised much more than the syllables themselves which comes off as really offputting to me in play because the syllables are just that much stronger. There are also some syllables that I think can be emphasised more as well like 22.223, where there's only a short 24th burst to it. I think all of this is compounded by the fact that the vocals in the verses are often layered in many forms -- whether it'd be just a chord or some 24th/28th (?) rhythm. It makes the chart very intuitively difficult for me to figure out and in general I don't feel like the chart follows the music well. The verse after the first chorus has similar issues, the syllables here just feel really underemphasised despite a lot going on, and it feels very offputting in gameplay.

The choruses are definitely clearer, though it feels a bit heavy-handed at points because of how you choose to layer breaths and other softer vocals throughout (47.379, 51.959, 1:01.169, 1:04.239, 1:06.129, 1:08.333, etc.) -- at least for me, layering softer components of syllables as bursts give a form of uneven emphasis that really underemphasises a lot of the more emphatic parts of syllables in the song, even if they're slower bursts at times. This is more of a personal qualm admittedly because I mostly avoid layering breaths and whatnot in vocal-directed dumps, so take it with a grain of salt, but I do consider it to be a form of overlayering because it muddles the emphasis of more pronounced parts of syllables.

Accept

This is exactly the kind of file I expected to get from this batch.

And I like this one a lot. I haven't judged many files in this batch yet, but this is the stand out so far. There's a great sense of flow and the vocals are captured very well imo. Huge fun factor here. Well done!

Putting this file as Fixes Required for me.

Now this file is interesting as this form of dumping is very deliberate - every syllables pronounced gets represented as 24ths or tighter. I don't have much of an issue with this, admittedly, but these two points are what driving me for FR rating - it's mostly the transitions on the syllables that needed to be ironed out.

- 36.061 - Please move this note elsewhere to not create a really tight 48th minijack on this, there's nothing on the vocal that this gets emphasised on.
- 2:16.519-2:18.025 - You might have to reconfigure these streams, these are very heavy on middle columns and spread this out a little better, and being near the end of the file is quite brutal.

Other than that, it's alright, although being on the edge of heavy-handed layering as far as dump goes.

2 Accept / 1 FR / 1 Reject
Moving to a CR rating

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spike at 2:16 - 2:17 toned down (stream patterns made to ease density on the middle columns). Few minor changes made to balance between layering vs stream for vocal consistency representation. forced minijack pattern that Mipha pointed out has been changed.

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 2223 => 2235
AVG NPS changed: 15.22255 => 15.30472