A Dada :: FFR Batch Submission
Lights - A Dada - Ruby my Dear [6 / 10]
17th Official Tournament
PublicEvents
Rejected
v9 spreadsheet Ruby my Dear
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Collab with Lights
- This file is a collaboration between multiple authors / stepauthors.

Simfile Folder Name

A Dada (Lights)

Note Count

2484

Chart Length

2:34

Average NPS

16.36

Estimated Difficulty

94.77

First Note

0:03

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x 14

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 22 3 - 49 4 - 435

Jumps

x 523

Hands

x 105

Quads

x 0

Color Jumps

x 1

Color Hands

x 0

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
11 - 33.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
15 - 30.00 nps 1 Second
27 - 27.00 nps 2 Seconds
46 - 23.00 nps 5 Seconds
103 - 20.60 nps 10 Seconds
200 - 20.00 nps 30 Seconds
562 - 18.73 nps 1 Minute
1091 - 18.18 nps

Color Count

x 1021 (41.1%)
x 573 (23.07%)
x 35 (1.41%)
x 465 (18.72%)
x 34 (1.37%)
x 131 (5.27%)
x 10 (0.4%)
x 4 (0.16%)
x 211 (8.49%)

Largest Note Gaps

0.9s0.7s0.57s0.43s0.43s0.37s0.3s0.3s
35
28
21
14
7

A Dada
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** Capitalization issue in metadata: song artist should be "Ruby My Dear"
- this is certified ouioui music

** The difficulty curve of this chart is all over the place, and it's in huge part due to the 32nd gallops and triplets you use for the quack noises. You will definitely need to tactically nerf some if not all of the following spots, because the song intensity and chart intensity do not match at all:
--> 24.471-25.446: Does this really deserve to be the densest jumpstream-ish section in the entire chart?
--> 50.608: The inclusion of this note makes the 32nd roll horrifically awkward, and is also unintuitive because it continues the same quantization and patterning as the roll for a completely different instrument. Please remove.
--> 57.508, 58.408, 76.521 being attached to the minijack hurts, and there's not really a good reason for them to be there.
--> 58.671: So the comment from 24.471 applies to this burst as well, but there's an extra complication here: Think about how this plays. With jumps on every 8th, this is the same NPS as an uncheatable 32nd stream. If I redistribute your current patterning into stream (same nps--all I'm doing is offsetting a couple notes by a 32nd here and there in the way that makes it easiest to hit) this is the side-by side:
ORIGINAL: https://i.imgur.com/i4JkBgW.png
STREAM: https://i.imgur.com/JU7UWoX.png
Do you notice how insane this pattern is to hit as a 400bpm stream, particularly on the left hand?

Some other bursts could use more attention to detail in their patterning to make sure you're not accidentally throwing something super needlessly awkward in there:
--> 26.721: Watch right hand in the 24ths here. This is super annoying to hit legit and not fast enough to cheat comfortably.
--> 32.152: Hidden column 1 anchor into what is already one of the toughest-patterned 32nd bursts in the chart.
--> 49.371: Right hand is also a bit awkward here. This is easier and more justified than 26.721 but I would still appreciate something more intuitive and less mindblockable.
--> 59.502-59.871: ow column 3
--> 64.371-65.046: column 2

And some other places I feel there is a mismatch between song intensity and chart intensity:
--> 9.771-16.971: This is the world's rolliest jumpstream. If your goal is for this to be even remotely difficulty relevant (which, in my opinion, it should be!) you will want to use a different and more aggressive motif here. See also: 38.571, 81.771.
--> 21.321-21.621 gets more aggressive (and only barely slower) patterning than 22.671-22.971 despite being near-silent, compared with the aggressive distortion of the latter sound.
--> 65.993: Creating a "burst" of one note doesn't have very much accenting power, it just makes things needlessly hard to read and acc.
--> 78.171: 20ths feel slow here.
--> 81.471: I kind of don't feel this needs to be accented... 20ths in particular feel odd because they conflict with the white notes in the jumpstream immediately after.
--> Dumping in the interlude at 87.771 is messy--the quantizations are extremely inconsistent, and the bursts don't always line up well with the actual start of the sounds. The first burst is an entire 16th late ("vous" starts at 87.996).

I will cut this review off here for brevity's sake. I don't want to nitpick everything when there are so many more pressing changes to make, particularly around playability and the accenting of the quack sounds. I will say, though, that the second half of the file (from 91.371) is, in my opinion, substantially better than the first--I'll let you guess at the reasons for that. Clean the first half up to the level of the second and you should be good to go, but that will unfortunately be a fair bit of work. [5.5/10]

Judge Score: 5.50 - Rejected

Permission good (blanket)
Sync good
** Musician name should be capitalized as Ruby My Dear.

- 8.121-8.270, 8.721-8.871: 16ths
* 13.971-16.971: not a fan of this rolly repetition js; it's funny at first but very annoying to score and I already mindblocked it
- 19.971: jump
- 21.171: differentiate with 20.871
- 22.446: missing
** 24.771-25.371: almost reduces to a jumptrill despite the music being more dynamic. It doesn't seem possible to make it any interesting at this density, so suggest removing some of the jumps and 16ths.
- 27.321, 27.396: why jump? compare with 27.546-27.696
- 29.571, 42.771, 45.171: jump
- 49.858: ghost
- 57.508: suggest not putting on the same column as the minijack
** 58.371-58.971: similar to ** above, but this time it's not a jumptrill and as a result extremely spiky
- 58.971-59.571: why white?
- 1:00.771: jump
- 1:19.521, 1:20.421, 1:20.721: different from neighboring jumps
* 1:23.571-1:27.696: see 13.971-16.971 above

* 1:40.971-2:19.371 is much easier than the first half, which means a difficulty imbalance despite the music being similar in intensity. The first half has denser bursts, jumps on a lot of instruments that are only slightly strong, and minijacks that are not musically minijacks, which are fine in isolation but ends up contributing to a discrepancy here.

There is some nice motif in the first half, but I think the chart as a whole should be more balanced out, especially the unnecessarily dense parts at **. Speaking of nerfing the first half, jumps are placed on so many instruments that it's hard to track what's being layered at 1.0x; I believe it can be layered in a way that is in line with the second half.

Judge Score: 6.50 - Rejected