File Thoughts
Posted on: September 24, 2019, at 12:01:32am

With a Cherry on Top - I made that one specifically as an intro to the concept of instrument colors and it worked out well
Gravity Blast - needed more color theory on the bloops than just white. Well received but I really wish I'd done more with the colors (Icy I'm still looking angrily at you for dumping on it months after the tourney)
Steel Monster - what the fuck was I on stepping that lmao, what even are those 32nds and bursts. The jacks are fine for the most part
Luna Ascension - way, WAY too many whites and the converter shat on them
Aerospace - no real complaints, actually. one of the only ones I wouldn't change along with Cherry
Gonna Take You Down - Feel like this is the first time I made a file that got pretty well-received in SM (...2010ish I think I made that for its pack?), the FFR conversion is good but there are some frame wonks on the green and white notes near the end and the song choice felt a lot stronger at the time
Skate or Die 2/Town Theme 1 - Easy AAAbait files, Town Theme I literally put together in like 15 minutes for an easy batch lmfao
Iced Innocence - From the clapback it got you'd think it had more white notes than it did but meh. Not that bad not that good
Myriagon - Decent-good file. Nothing much to say but the converter ate ass on the few white notes that are there lol
Neurotoxin - That's actually the second version I made, the first was deemed too similar to LG's SM file and I recreated what you see on the engine today from scratch due to that judgment. Good file, was a high placer in FFR awards that year for top file but doesn't feel that special due to being the second creation. (ftr I agreed with it being too similar and made the change willingly, the diminished opinion is more due to it taking a second attempt lmfao)
Teeny Weeny String Bikini - lol gunther (only real gripe is the random af 32nd note right near the beginning of the file that I somehow didn't clean up into a red jump, how'd I miss that like an idiot)
Black Lair - probably the best file I've made tbh, lots of fun and digestible patterns with colors that follow more than just one scheme
Fighting of the Spirit - SSH long song syndrome... didn't do much coloring on this one and it's kinda simplistic in design but still decently fun
Polis Ruin - funnily this took about 4 years to actually make it ingame from the conditional queue; the unfixed version had a giant unbroken jumpstream in the middle. Jumps emphasized the piano and strings more often than the drums (that only happened in the beginning and middle). The colored rolls were because I didn't wanna turn it into +- level patterns because yes, I could have made them 48th and 64th rolls and you wouldn't have wanted those lol
Gene Gadget 1 (yes it counts bmah and I collabed on this) - pretty fun! bmah made the most enjoyable parts of the file from the skeleton I gave him and you should go commend him for it, if it were as I left it there would be quite a few annoying patterns or understepped/inconsistent portions
Overall opinion: Files I have in aren't like, egregiously bad per se, but for the most part they have nitpickable areas, aren't really that memorable and/or are basically "lol lay off the white notes you nerd." I think the most annoying file is Steel Monster just because of the atrocious 32nd and 24th usage and probably the best one I have ingame is Black Lair (just based off general opinion that I've noticed)