FFR Community Pack Summer 2012 Released

[xferrarix]

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i didn't download this pack yet oops

[NeoMasterPie]

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whirpool pimpin' reviews #1

[moches]

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reviews part 1
reviews part 2
reviews part 3

here's me playin a few more files

Intro Outro - BPM changes used to great effect here. simple but very fun, rolls off the fingers nicely. some freezes could have been placed better to make the file more readable.

RPG - fun, technical, flowy. not much to say here.

Sweet Drops - this file just makes me really happy. easy but adorable and fun. rainbows/10 (that said, it's a bit simplified at parts, missing a few details in the layering. I actually prefer it that way as it gives the file a reliable structure, but others might disagree)

Presenter - great fun. not many complaints (I guess the piano could have been stepped with a bit more elegance?)

Todestrieb - this was awesome. you took a bit of liberties with the minifreeze/hand layering because it was inconsistent, but I think you got away with it because the layering was always clear. patterns here are great and mine usage was ver impressive (some really delightfully hard stuff here, like that entire beginning passage). I can say with some degree of confidence that this is one of Yume's best files to date

ryukotsuki - fun but rigidly stepped. you had a lot of clear motifs in this file, but when things varied (like the extra 16th in between the 8th stutters), you didn't yield and the file got choppy as a result (mine go BOOM!) pattern usage was solid if somewhat rudimentary (always remember that flow > consistency, no need to straightlayer everything). fun file but remember to go with what feels natural next time.

Mystery Metropolis - file feels a little...dead. picked up at the guitar solo, but this feels a bit too plodding. maybe not such a good song to step. should be fun for intermediate players, though!

Morgenglut 2012 - very hard...and very repetitive. decently fun but I can't help but be disappointed in the unexpressed potential here.

Kimi no Heart ni Lock-on - quit out of Oni once I saw the cluster of handjacks. Heavy was kinda fun. sparse chart, though. I wish there was a heavy but flowy version of this file--song's nice.

CENTIPEDE - **** hard

Cadaver Anatomy - much more fun than I expected, tbh. full of interesting rhythms and patterns. song is ridiculously metal.

Couple Breaking - rhythms are pretty nice in this file. you're not doing enough to bring out the melody of this, though. it feels like an IIDX chart, actually: you captured a lot of small details, but the meat of this file is the melody, and your steps don't express that too well.

Excalibur - patterns suffer from a bit of randomness syndrome, particularly in the stream near the end. good emphasis of percussion with the freezes, though (freezes were used very well in this file, actually). this file needs a clearer trajectory, to be honest: it whirls through a lot of different sections, but they don't feel connected by anything.

Harvest Dance - FUN. totally FFR, but oh so very fun. you can keep your expressivemanias

Rengetsu Ouka - this is so chill and nice. this is the most unique Gundam file in a while. ending's a touch abrupt, though

Vallista - really nice but I wish more of the melodic stuff had been prominent in this file. I'm also glad somebody else is carrying on my ~teal note~ legacy lol. LongGone had some amazing stuff in this pack <3

[dAnceguy117]

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^^ I agree 99.9%

[ddr_f4n]

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ryukotsuki - fun but rigidly stepped. you had a lot of clear motifs in this file, but when things varied (like the extra 16th in between the 8th stutters), you didn't yield and the file got choppy as a result (mine go BOOM!) pattern usage was solid if somewhat rudimentary (always remember that flow > consistency, no need to straightlayer everything). fun file but remember to go with what feels natural next time.

Ah this is what I like.

I still feel like a kb chart beginner at all this, but this will help. I thought it felt good since I was following the background piano on Heavy, which was why it was a lot of straightforward 16th stream (Standard had it following the vocals). I tend to follow the instruments as it sounds, since I dunno how to be lil more "expressive" yet. But I'll keep trying. Maybe my next file will try to do just that though. I dunno, it felt natural to me, but that's prob because I'm not an expert kb player myself :V

Thanks a lot. Really appreciated.

[dAnceguy117]

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I really liked the mine progression in the heavy chart. with the crazy filtering going on and getting more intense throughout the song's duration, I thought you did a great job of capturing the feeling of the music. I barely noticed the actual patterns, because I was iN dA zOnE dodging mines hehe.

I totes agree with what moches said about pattern flow though. accurate layering and PR and everything can be really cool, but sacrifices must be made for the sake of playability. I gotta work on that myself.

[Gundam-Dude]

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with rengetsu ouka, I was bringing back the 32nd rolls I used to use in now and forever and other files from the past, rofl. the ending is basically just a watered down now and forever that's easier to hit. only reason I stepped the full version was because I wanted to match the osu! map to some degree as sort of a tribute, if you're curious as to why I didn't cut it.

no love for rpg though which is kinda disappointing for me. I was hoping this would top futuristic imagination from lcp3.

at least grave consequence as a whole got good reviews, despite being a restep.

anyways, enough about me being a self centered asshole. many thanks to the sheer quantity and quality of reviews—this season pack definitely got the most reception out of all the others

[Bynary Fission]

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Hey moches, why won't you review Magewind and SoC? I keep waiting for them but it seems that you keep passing over them, and I really want to hear what you have to say on them.


It's funny, SoC seems to get a lot of hate when I thought it would be very well received...as it turns out Magewind seems to get universal praise despite the less-than-perfect syncing (it is a really old file though). I don't mind, I think the game needs more of those kinds of songs stepped, but it feels like a punch in the nads when people hate SoC, damn I really had high hopes for that file lol.

I'm glad everybody else seems to like Divided by Three and AST, though they do have similar stepping styles so I don't think they seemed that different from each other.

[kommisar]

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no1 plays end of pack filez

[Choofers]

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yo big choof what happen to autechere collab? still wanna make that happen?

oops

yes, we gotta make dis happen.

[Choofers]

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also time to compile reviews for vortex since apparently people like that better than interrupt

5) Vortex (Torrent) :V

:V

Vortex: Felt perfect etc but having to wait for 2 minutes to get to the real hard part is kinda gay xd

The original song has a 16 measure part after the second slowdown (the shorter of the two). I cut it out because it repeats a lot and when I stepped it, it felt really messy.

Vortex (Torrent) Okay so this was actually better than most of the files in this pack because this was actually GRATE to play. You know the file's good when there are simple recurring patterns that fit the song more than mere jumps or stand-alone notes (that recurring 1+23442 pattern's a good example). This file is objectively good and I mean it.

omg

*Vortex- the intro to this was more boring than centipede but once it picked up it was p cool. we gotta finish robotomy by the way

yessssss, there's like 30 seconds left or something and it's all stuff that fucen owns
ps if you didn't post interrupt on kbo I would have never heard of the song, so t.hanks (o:

-Vortex: already reviewed it and ya did pretty decent with this one iirc

swag

Vortex (Torrent) - Experimental, and I'd say it definitely worked out. The walls aren't unreasonable by any means. I think you're the king of stepping dark, sprawling songs with uneven meters.

I think the main reason why I'm better at stepping IDM/leftfield stuff is because I actually enjoy stepping it. In irc, 0 posts songs like Triple Baka, Hatarake Niito, etc, and when I try to step them... I generally get 16-20 measures in and never finish it. The songs aren't bad, I just don't like stepping them.

If 0 sees this, I'm sorry br0 ):

If I'm getting this kind of reception on Vortex, people will love Robotomy.

[kommisar]

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[Choofers]

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[kommisar]

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i see it fine

[Choofers]

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nice edit mr maple