Bach to the Future :: FFR Batch Submission
TheTrueXfish - Bach to the Future - Round Wave Crusher [6 / 10]
Autumn 2024 Seasonal Batch
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1goVL1D37TyZKlYBfER-ZIZlssHdWdq9-gLSdX6A2sII/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Round Wave Crusher blanket permissions.
Technical file used in an Osu!Mania tournament that we wanted to also submit here because we have permissions.

Note: [GS]Rose does not have an FFR account, but we want to credit her obviously.

This file is a collab between the follow step-artists:
TheTrueXfish, ImperialTrinity, [GS]Rose

- The sim folder name isn't as expected: "Bach to the Future (TheTrueXfish, ImperialTrinity, [GS]Rose)" vs "Bach to the Future (TheTrueXfish)"

- This file is a collaboration between multiple authors / stepauthors.

Simfile Folder Name

Bach to the Future (TheTrueXfish, ImperialTrinity, [GS]Rose)

Note Count

2311

Chart Length

2:31

Average NPS

15.5903

Estimated Difficulty

100.89

First Note

0:03

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x -5

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 36 3 - 196 4 - 432

Jumps

x 422

Hands

x 120

Quads

x 0

Color Jumps

x 31

Color Hands

x 1

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
13 - 39.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
17 - 34.00 nps 1 Second
30 - 30.00 nps 2 Seconds
53 - 26.50 nps 5 Seconds
119 - 23.80 nps 10 Seconds
223 - 22.30 nps 30 Seconds
617 - 20.57 nps 1 Minute
1152 - 19.20 nps

Color Count

x 934 (40.42%)
x 494 (21.38%)
x 209 (9.04%)
x 308 (13.33%)
x 133 (5.76%)
x 103 (4.46%)
x 16 (0.69%)
x 29 (1.25%)
x 85 (3.68%)

Largest Note Gaps

1.2s0.73s0.6s0.6s0.6s0.4s0.37s0.3s
35
28
21
14
7

Removed extra difficulty oops.

A new chart file was uploaded.

Unfortunately this chart misses the mark on several aspects.

To begin with, most of the hard parts were stepped without much focus on avoiding uncomfortable anchors or hand-biases. I understand that this was originally made for top contestants who can easily hit all of those anyway, but from lower-level players' perspective, some of those are quite spiky and sometimes don't really make sense:
- 59.679-1:00.954: left hand is taking all the minijacks while the right hand is just trilling
- 1:22.854-1:27.654: too many anchors here, 1:22.929-1:23.454 and 1:25.479-1:26.454 being the worst offenders at column 2
- 1:27.654-1:30.954: this is one of the most mindblockable patterns I've ever seen. After a few playthroughs, I completely gave up trying to hit this part.
- 1:37.404-1:38.229, 1:42-504-1:42.754, 1:47.354-1:48.204: watch the left hand
- 1:51.654-1:52.554: column 1 anchor
- 2:02.454-2:03.654, 2:07.254-2:08.454: stepping these as flams is giving too much attention to what's barely audible at 1.0x speed, at the cost of an unreadable coloring; just use jumps
- 2:04.854-2:06.054: all the OHTs with column 2 & 3 anchors
- 2:22.104-2:26.904: watch the left hand, especially column 2
- 2:27.354-2:28.854: this kind of transition between dense rolls is impossible compared to the rest of the chart

Then, several parts were audibly mistimed or omitted, leading to a confusing experience:
- 18.654-19.254: 16ths
- 1:03.954-1:07.253, 1:08.454-1:09.654: wubs start from 8ths
- 1:08.304-1:08.454: 32nds
- 1:12.054-1:12.279: not 16ths, and not strong enough to be jumps
- 1:43.854: why are they flams? My guess is to dump the scream, but then it was stepped as 24ths before.
- not as audible as those above, but since 2:02.454-2:03.654, 2:07.254-2:08.454 are not aligned to standard snaps I would expect them to be at least accurately timed, but they are not.
- 2:20.754-2:21.054: no they don't get slower. These should be 24ths
- 2:21.504-2:21.654, etc.: fast rolls, not jumps. I guess the current one is better to score with a tight timing window, but FFR has a fairly large one so it shouldn't be a concern.
- There are more throughout the chart, but you get the idea.

Sometimes, when a section repeats, the patterns are inconsistent:
- 1:13.253-1:20.454: 8ths are not effectively capturing the voice, unlike 30.054-38.454
- 2:02.454-2:03.654, 2:07.254-2:08.454: The second one is much harder despite musically being the same
- 2:18.054-2:18.054: the same sound appeared 5 seconds ago, why are they suddenly flams

Due to these factors, I think it needs a considerable amount of tweaks for acceptance. Among other things, remember that an FFR chart's main audience is the players with similar skill levels to the chart. For such a high difficulty of 100+, small anchors or hand imbalance can easily snowball into a spike for them.

Judge Score: 5.00 - Rejected

Bach to the Future [7/10] [Fixes Required]

- Perms, sync, metadata are good

I'm using ArrowVortex's label feature to write this review.

Anything that you see marked with S and E indicate the Start and End timestamp of the section I'm referencing. (for example, the first two notes will combine to 00:18.654-00:19.254)

** Incidates Fixes Required / * Indicates Change Recommended

00:18.654: S - wrong quantization
00:19.254: E - wrong quantization

00:33.804: You could move this note a 16th early to represent the vocal
00:34.404: ^

00:51.654: S - * This section really doesn't make sense. I recommended restepping it to fit the amen break samples and kicks
00:53.454: E - * This section really doesn't make sense. I recommended restepping it to fit the amen break samples and kicks

01:02.416: There is a 32nd here, move the note on col 2 from the 16th jump to here

01:08.304: S - 32nd, not 16ths. also pretty difficult to execute
01:08.416: E - 32nd, not 16ths. also pretty difficult to execute

01:37.254-01:42.654: **I find this section very RNG to execute because of the minijacky burst 24ths. I suggest breaking the patterns that form minijacks and isolate them to different columns

01:56.829: You don't really need the 16ths here. the 24th swings represent this good enough.
01:57.429: You don't really need the 16ths here. the 24th swings represent this good enough.
01:58.029: You don't really need the 16ths here. the 24th swings represent this good enough.
01:58.629: You don't really need the 16ths here. the 24th swings represent this good enough.

02:02.454: Ooh, spicy

02:28.554: ** This is a pretty terrible ending solution. find a better alternative to this. too spiky

Mostly straightfoward & consistent. Review the notes and it should be good to go.

Judge Score: 7.00 - Fixes Required