Official Tournament Round 6 Song Discussion

[smartdude1212]

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I love DarkZtar's pattern choices... I could play Kirlian Shores endlessly just because of how awesome it sounds with this keyboard.

[DarkZtar]

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There were plenty of alternatives to make the patterns play better...

Perhaps, but I've always approached making files with the intent on best representing the given song (within reason of course) and not necessarily tailoring the file to play smoothly. ~=P

[TC_Halogen]

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Perhaps, but I've always approached making files with the intent on best representing the given song (within reason of course) and not necessarily tailoring the file to play smoothly. ~=P

Good man.

[dragonmegaXX]

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I cant enjoy ordeal just because of how much better I think the itg chart goes with the music ;-;

[psychoangel691]

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Adding Ultrasounds and Overdrive [aaronmusslewhite] for the 9 - 16 eliminated challenge. Feel free to discuss those here as well. (I'd love input on the rating for Overdrive, all of us were kinda back and forth with the rating)

[hi19hi19]

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Ultrasounds! is AMAZING.

Kommi delievers on his promise to me to get a good 300 bpm stream file into FFR. Not even sure he remembers saying that he would but I do and damn, this file delivers.
In my opinion FFR version is even better than on SM because that one stupid mine/hold part is taken out and the lack of chord cohesion has no effect on the hard part of the file anyway.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

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Perhaps, but I've always approached making files with the intent on best representing the given song (within reason of course) and not necessarily tailoring the file to play smoothly. ~=P

I try for emulating the song, but if it doesn't flow for me my lord do I delete that given spot and rechart it sometimes upwards of 5 - 7 times or more

Unless of course it is like Emily and I am purposely being a dick with patterns. Then yeah, aids city. Being such a picky flow person, I'm apparently really good at making some of the most unplayable shit I've ever laid eyes on.

Also Ultrasounds I instantly stopped watching the play through bot when that 24th stream kicked in. I did however, start laughing a bit.

[TC_Halogen]

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Patterns in the Ultrasounds stream are really harsh. Lots of 12th note mini-jacks in the stream certainly make it uncomfortable to play. Still nice to have something with 300 BPM streams that aren't particularly hard/automatic to read.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

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Your idea of hard is more like a normal person's idea of absurd :/

And I mean that in a polite way x.x'

[igotrhythm]

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AT streams?

AUGH.

Also what Middie said. x.x'

[bmah]

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Late, but I'll always post my thoughts for each round.


Disc Jockey MIKE:
This song is about drunk kittens and barking dogs. At least, that seems to be the sound samples that MIKE loves to use here. If you enjoyed "beer(party)tune" you'll probably like this. The file's a mixed bag of swing rhythms and 16ths with other random stuff. Would certainly challenge the D1 players.

Walking on a Dream:
For whatever reason, I think that the animated film "Up" is appropriate for this song. I like the white arrow accenting on the vocal clips later on in the song. Unfortunately, this song doesn't have much to offer in terms of rhythms, so the file is nearly all 24th swings. It's rather boring for me to play, but the song is nice and airy.

ETERNAL DRAIN [Heavy]:
This is my streamy file. It'll have a slightly less difficult version in the future (probably between 45-52 in difficulty). The song is reminiscent of TËЯRA's works, vocal-wise and music-wise. Despite its density, the chart doesn't actually turn out as hard as it appears. As you may be aware, there's a group of surprise jacks at the end of the song. Deal with it.

DownTemperature:
This is a really weird one. The music reminds me of the horrors of my attempts on fixing numerous viruses, bugs, and blue screens of death on multiple laptops recently; i.e. glitchy and fucked up. As such, the music naturally lends itself to an equally strange chart that I actually find quite interesting to play. Reminds me of Miss Candy on TV, but sounds a bit better than that. Pretty sure this chart can drive some people crazy...

44 Edit:
I remember FissionMailed asked me numerous times to look over his chart via Youtube clips. I've made many suggestions since then, and this is the result. Some people might think it's underlayered, but I think it plays pretty well. It's still a high-energy, high-tension file, but for a Terminal11 song flows very nicely. Once again, well done Fission.

The Ordeal Becomes Great:
I'll say this bluntly: this file rubs off zero, absolutely zero, magic on me. Playing without a care makes for a semi-enjoyable endeavor, but other than that, the file's a twisted mess. For those of you who love this file, I'll hold you liable for future files that you might criticize as "awkward" and "too technical". However, I have to commend Darkztar for spending what I could only imagine was a ton of time syncing this long song which seems to have an endless amount of guitar solos. I won't let that go unacknowledged.

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And the extra songs!


Fractured Sunshine:
I played this on Stepmania, and I'm glad that AJ changed numerous sections in the file that were originally a maze of jumpjacks a la Piano Gymnastics. The song is probably one of the strangest things I've heard lately...it's happy yet all broken up. That almost gives an ironically sadistic vibe. The chart's no less sadistic either.

Move It Groove It [Heavy]:
AJ's version of this song is done very well. I don't think it gave the tiebreaker players too much of a challenge though. Not much else to say; it's a great chart IMO. The music should belong to ITG.

Overdrive [aaronmusslewhite]:
I playtested this file on the ThirdStyle website, where it had many interesting x-mod gimmicks. The lack of gimmicks doesn't take away the fun from this unique file. It's pretty varied, and quite tricky at places. Not a fan of the 3232[134] 32nd trill though. It borks you up if you don't watch out! Neat chart.

Ultrasounds!:
Just like the Stepmania version as expected. And very fast 24th runs are just as unforgiving as expected. I actually think the 24ths flow pretty well in general, and that's saying something considering their speed. They sort of remind me of Rave7's 24th streams, but more predictable and pitch-relevant. Transitioning from 16th streams to the 24th streams though is not that easy. The file plays really well. Maybe Kommisar should let his buddy Hertzdevil know that his first song is now on FFR!

[FissionMailed1]

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44 Edit:
I remember FissionMailed asked me numerous times to look over his chart via Youtube clips.

Guilty . Special thanks to bmah though, was having trouble pinpointing really rigid areas at the time until he pointed out a few examples. Was able to cleanse the chart of most of them after that point.

[hi19hi19]

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The Ordeal Becomes Great:
I'll say this bluntly: this file rubs off zero, absolutely zero, magic on me. Playing without a care makes for a semi-enjoyable endeavor, but other than that, the file's a twisted mess. For those of you who love this file, I'll hold you liable for future files that you might criticize as "awkward" and "too technical". However, I have to commend Darkztar for spending what I could only imagine was a ton of time syncing this long song which seems to have an endless amount of guitar solos. I won't let that go unacknowledged.

The difference is, this file is absurdly technical the whole way through. The file clearly has one personality. If you don't want it, you can avoid it.
As opposed to a file that is 90% flowing patterns and 10% bullshit stuff, and you get the worst of both worlds (not fun to play casually or for scoring)

[Plan_Bsk81127]

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Didnt like any of the files this round, mainly because I feel song choices were bleh. Just going to leave it at so I dont rant out nonsense. lol

Have yet to play the two new one released today, but the kommi chart looks ugly, that stream looks like the Rain stream on crack. Overdrive is prob the most decent song of the round, curious how this plays out without the xmods.

[SKG_Scintill]

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As opposed to a file that is 90% flowing patterns and 10% bullshit stuff, and you get the worst of both worlds (not fun to play casually or for scoring)

*cough* Twister