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Kawaiibossa3 (basicdrummerman & Lights) [6.5/10]
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- 1:47.246 it feels really wierd to not have white notes to fill in this section. Its an odd choice to choose to follow them and then just ignore them for the rest of the section. I'd suggest filling in the empty space with white notes.

- 1:57.358 the pitch of the white notes changes here, so you should change the 4 note pattern too.

Now lets talk the elephant in the room. The difficulty spike in the middle is just too much. It feels like half way through we switch to a different chart. There are two main issue that cause this. First 0:12.526 - 0:55.335 only follows the melody and is undercharted. Second 1:05.448 is just way too dense compared to the rest of the chart. One of these two issues needs to be fixed to give the chart a more balanced difficulty. For 0:12.526 you could try things like layering in the percussion, or using jumps for the main melody. this would boost the difficulty to be more in line with 1:05.448. At 1:05.448 you could try getting rid of all the jumps. the section would still be quite tricky without them. with 0:33.762 just focusing on only the melody and not even adding percussion notes during the rests it feels quite empty compared to the harder charts, and a step down in difficulty from the previous section, despite being an increase in intensity of the song. 1:17.920 is cool, but maybe get rid of some of the percussion layering to tone down the section a little. Now you dont need to do all of these things. These are just ideas to point the chart in the right direction, but i really do feel the difficulty needs to be brought in line in one direction or the other.

Judge Score: 6.50 - Rejected

Checking in on the status of this submission, as it's past the 1 month probationary period with a "Change Recommended" flag, but there's been no acknowledgment of judge notes or fixes submitted.

Files/Songs with the "Change Recommended" tag require at a minimum a response from the Stepauthor in order to continue through the submission system.

I will check back on this at a later date. If it does not receive a response or fix by then, it could risk rejection.

Promise has been honored, I have rejected every other Fixes Required/Change Recommended file without response, except for this one.