ETERNAL DRAIN :: FFR Batch Submission
DarkZtar - ETERNAL DRAIN - Colorful Sounds Port [7.25 / 10]
16th Official Tournament (see thread)
PublicEvents
Released
v2 of song in game already
dump. vaguely inspired by whiteh's chart.

✔️ This chart has been marked as final and shouldn't receive any more changes.

Simfile Folder Name

Eternal Drain (DarkZtar)

Note Count

2313

Chart Length

2:01

Average NPS

20.3609

Estimated Difficulty

102.6

First Note

0:07

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x 41

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 0 3 - 234 4 - 410

Jumps

x 473

Hands

x 20

Quads

x 0

Color Jumps

x 0

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
25 - 25.00 nps 2 Seconds
49 - 24.50 nps 5 Seconds
120 - 24.00 nps 10 Seconds
233 - 23.30 nps 30 Seconds
674 - 22.47 nps 1 Minute
1262 - 21.03 nps

Color Count

x 503 (21.75%)
x 397 (17.16%)
x 40 (1.73%)
x 610 (26.37%)
x 42 (1.82%)
x 584 (25.25%)
x 20 (0.86%)
x 30 (1.3%)
x 87 (3.76%)

Largest Note Gaps

0.23s0.2s0.2s0.2s0.2s0.2s0.2s0.2s
35
28
21
14
7

Eternal Drain (DarkZtar) - 6.5/10
Most of the chart is approachable and I didn't have any notable critiques about it (I'd give this a 7.5 to 8 for most of it) -- I felt that some of the 32nd streams started a bit earlier than I expected, but that's mostly because of how you charted the harp sounds, which tended to be more aggressively layered than Wh1teh's version. The patterns are fluent and the jump layering makes sense overall, and I thought that the midsection of the section was well-executed overall.

The main issue I had is the vocal section. While I definitely get that you're making the vocal section more interesting overall, I feel that it's a bit sloppily executed and is hard to follow in general. I think one of the main issues is that I can't easily tell why exactly you have longer bursts for some of the held syllables and minijacks for some others. How I would process vocal dumps like this is that (or at least, how I would chart it) is that I would have a 32nd triplet or minijack for syllables before the end of each phrase, and the syllable at the end of each phrase is a longer burst, usually 24th or 32nd like what you have. You seem to be very very freeform with what you're doing exactly, with certain consecutive syllables like 34.883 to 35.789 being connected into a giant 24th stream et al, and several other consecutive syllables being separated or layered as 16th minijacks in particular.

The vocal section as a whole is just really difficult to judge as a result, since I'm not able to keep track of what you're doing at all, and even while playing it, it felt confusing experience for me to play through as well because I keep thinking that the structure of it would be a bit more concrete. I think a lot of this boils down to idiosyncratic differences in how we make dumps in particular, but it doesn't change the fact that the vocal section dampens a lot of the chart for me as a whole. I don't think I can make concrete notes for any of this since we likely have different conceptions of how to make vocal dump charts like this, so you can keep the section as is, but you'll have to get player feedback to see if they get what you're trying to do here.

Regardless, the chart is a notable improvement from any other Eternal Drain chart of this difficulty I've seen, and it's certainly a more inspired chart for it than ones I've seen from before -- so there's no reason to push this chart down into a reject. I just hope that, again, players enjoy this chart more than I personally would.

ETERNAL DRAIN
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- Permissions, sync, metadata good.

- 13.541: Slightly spicy jack pattern for what the song is doing.
- 17.970, 18.776: I get the kinaesthetic reasons for including these, but there's really not a whole lot backing these up as jumps musically.
- 31.058-32.266: Given the bit just after this and also the smaller section from 26.427-26.830, I feel this'd be more appropriate as a jumpglut than a stream.
- 34.078, 46.964: I'd appreciate if this vocal burst cut off here to highlight that there is another syllable here and it is not just one held note. For positive examples: 37.098 cuts off at the 8th when there is another syllable there, and 35.487 continues to the 16th afterwards because the syllable is on the 16th and there isn't one on the 8th.
- 42.870: Suggest removing, can't tell what this is for.
- 50.210: This 64th is inconsistent with how you followed the vocal at 37.098, please remove.
- 64.078: Syllable is pretty stressed/loud, a higher quantization than 24ths would be more appropriate.

- This is quite good overall, I've felt like FFR could use an Eternal Drain chart like this for a while actually. I do have a couple issues with sloppiness in the vocal dumping in the section before the main stream section, but the main section is very well executed overall--jump layering makes sense, patterning is fluid, the vocal bursts inside the 32nds make a lot of sense and feel good to hit despite the fast speed. Good to go. [8/10]

Just a general check-in for this submission since it's reaching a month after notes were released without any fixes or acknowledgement of judge notes.

Adding some suggested fixes for this on the weekend.

Mostly just went through the vocal section to try to clarify some of the dumped vocal representation.

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 2306 => 2313
AVG NPS changed: 20.2993 => 20.36092
Hand Bias changed: 36 => 41