Empty Shell :: FFR Batch Submission
jh05013 - Empty Shell - ITHAQUA [8.25 / 10]
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95-97 submission

I'll colorize the last 6 notes later

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Simfile Folder Name

Empty Shell (jh05013)

Note Count

3341

Chart Length

3:52

Average NPS

14.5832

Estimated Difficulty

96.65

First Note

0:03

Ending Note Delay

0:02

Hand Bias

x 39

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 17 3 - 17 4 - 959

Jumps

x 720

Hands

x 154

Quads

x 1

Color Jumps

x 65

Color Hands

x 1

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
11 - 33.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
16 - 32.00 nps 1 Second
26 - 26.00 nps 2 Seconds
48 - 24.00 nps 5 Seconds
113 - 22.60 nps 10 Seconds
208 - 20.80 nps 30 Seconds
544 - 18.13 nps 1 Minute
996 - 16.60 nps

Color Count

x 1458 (43.64%)
x 945 (28.28%)
x 37 (1.11%)
x 706 (21.13%)
x 36 (1.08%)
x 75 (2.24%)
x 0 (0%)
x 0 (0%)
x 84 (2.51%)

Largest Note Gaps

1.4s1.1s1.1s1.1s0.8s0.77s0.57s0.53s
35
28
21
14
7

Empty Shell (jh05013)

- Offset's good.

I liked the jumpstream motifs in the first minute.

1:13.005 - Could have a note to accomodate for this missing vocal.
1:29.437 - Seems missing for something of a residual percussion here.
1:58.005 - I'm guessing this is missing an 8th but given there's percussion on the next 4th, it's no big deal.
2:01.824 - Missing 8th, you do this for 45.733.

Cute ending, I guess.

Your layering is mostly sound and fair for most of the jumpstream sections and that is good given how the song doesn't lend itself very much in variety. The bursts and most of the 24th streams are also pretty fair, even though sometimes they follow to a certain theme a bit too strict than what I initially realized upon couple of playtests. Not much to argue beyond that, just a few couple of missing notes but this is already good to go. [8/10]

Empty Shell (jh05013) [8.5/10]

- Metadata, sync are good

- Permission is questionable. The whole album is BY-NC-ND 4.0 on archive.org, while the song on SoundCloud the label displays it as BY-NC-SA 3.0. On top of that, this is just a sped-up Bocchi The Rock song with amen break samples slapped into it.

0:44.778 - Misplaced jump.

2:05.778 - Feel like mirrored works better here.

2:31.892, 2:33.187 - Misplaced jump?

2:56.642-2:56.880 - This is a bit rough with the jumps included. Maybe omit those? There's no kick there.

Near the ending of the jumpstream the hand usage there starts to get a bit questionable, care to clarify what you're trying to represent there?

Overall, this is a breakcore file. Well structured and has good pattern variety with little to no qualms. I don't think there's much else to say.

Wondering what the situation is on this file, as it is closing in on the end of the 1 month period (December 3rd) to submit and receive fixes. Since this is a straight accept, the file will be accepted as-is at a period in the future after the 1 month period and then released.

Thanks for the notes.

- I already made some changes after the batch closure, so there may be changes not mentioned in either note but they should be pretty minor. The most notable one is that 1:04.414-1:21.869 got a few more 16ths. I kept going back and forth deciding whether they are worth adding in or they are too dim, but I ultimately decided to add them since plain 8ths are a bit boring.
- 2:33.187 is for the guitar. Fixed the rest of the notes.
- Most of the hands are for strong sounds, except for 46.960-53.505 which are just vocal+jump layering. Turned some of those hands to jumps where they don't sound as strong as others.
- Colored the last 6 notes. I watched the first few episodes of Bocchi the Rock, and although I haven't encountered the sample, the latter 3 is definitely Hitori (pink) and the former 3 is most likely Nijika (yellow) due to saying "Bocchi-chan" and talking about fulfilling her dream.

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 3330 => 3341
AVG NPS changed: 14.53514 => 14.58315
Hand Bias changed: 50 => 39