Songs of the Week (July 26, 2013)

[One Winged Angel]

Early SotW from me again, aren’t you all just so privileged god damb

Atop The World
Musician: flashygoodness
Step Artist: VisD
Song Genre: Classical
Difficulty: 24
Song Length: 1:06

Dead Throne
Musician: The Devil Wears Prada
Step Artist: condoct
Song Genre: Rock
Difficulty: 63
Song Length: 2:45

My Fxxkin Desire For You
Musician: Yuyoyuppe (Ft. Hatsune Miku)
Step Artist: Xx{Midnight}xX
Song Genre: Rock
Difficulty: 85
Song Length: 2:10

Rising Blue Lightning
Musician: S.S.H.
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Genre: Rock
Difficulty: 64
Song Length: 3:51

k luv u bye

[Ksl33zy24]

funny how it's early when it's on time

[One Winged Angel]

Also you guys can collectively come to an agreement on what MFDFY should be rated because lol

[mi40]

3/10 gameplay
84 difficulty

[DossarLX ODI]

Good, the 24th ending in My Fuckin Desire For You was fixed to 16ths

Also it's certainly at least a mid FGO, but I haven't had a full run on it yet... there are some 8th anchor parts like at the very end of the last fast stream that are hard to manage.

[YoshL]

My Fxxkin Desire For You

Layering problems throughout the song. better to step more prominent stuff like the vocals. by only stepping perc, it's like you could have just subbed a metal song, not a miku metal song (song choice-- as well objectivemanias)

sticking to snares layering pretty much the whole way through the song ruins alot, there's plenty of other options you could have used, vocals (again), or even the crashes at the end of the phrase (better completes a musical thought). Also, randomly chosen guitar sounds to layer in?

Lots of misrhythms and stuff. Cymbal flare in the mid-beginning feels strange. Some of the individual bass kicks inbetween phrases should be 16ths (from what I can hear). That piano slowdown in the mid-end was probably the lowest point in the piece, decision wise. It just didn't feel like i was playing the piano part. Then you decided to ditch the piano, going back to percussion (bad choice imo), because the piano is the seperator for this section and the sections before and after, it just makes the chart feel wrong.

Ending difficulty spike lol

[ilikexd]

ending patterns are really awkward on my fxxkin desire for you. even though they are "rolly", they are very tricky to hit, and ending it with the 1handed trill which transitions really rigidly is a bit too over the top for my liking since the ending is already spiked enough.

Originally Posted by YoshL

My Fxxkin Desire For You

bahahahah

Layering.

what did you layer throughout the whole song? percussion. ok. you could have made the file actually good by stepping what is prominent in the song. the vocals. cmon dude are you that dumb lol

Then, you stick to layering snares pretty much the whole way through the song, completely ignoring the fact that there's /crash cymbals/ which are /louder/ and more /prominent/ than the snares. Why not layer those too? I mean, they're the end of the musical phrase usually, it makes a whole ton of sense layering those in.

And of course, you pick and choose when to layer in the guitar sounds. Don't give me any bullshit about "oh i was worried about difficulty, didn't want a spike". Well, look at your end of the song jesus christ lol.

Shitton of misrhythms and stuff. Cymbal flare in the mid-beginning is fail. Alot of the individual bass kicks inbetween phrases should be 16ths. That piano slowdown in the mid-end? I fucking cringed when I got to that part, didn't feel at all like i was playing anything fucking close to the piano. And you left out the guitar too. THEN you decided to say "fuck that even though it's a really easy part of the song, I'm just going to start concentrating back on the percussion, completely ignoring the defining part of this section, the piano". Oh, and of course, leave out the hi-hat too, you don't want a difficulty spi- ending lol

crap file, no flow, sections don't mesh with each other, feels like you tried to show everyone how to properly make a hard file and just failed at it

i agree with a lot of this (guitar, cymbal shouldve been stepped in slowdown, misrhythms), but i think a lot more can be accomplished with a less hostile tone.

[YoshL]

Originally Posted by ilikexd

i think a lot more can be accomplished with a less hostile tone.

i agree wholeheartedly. I just wanted to see what middie sees in doing that to other people

[DossarLX ODI]

YoshL a lot of files in the current batch are like that actually: Layering barely audible sounds in the quiet parts of the song to make jumps (even hands!), or just resorting to percussion layering that makes the file bland and lose its potential to make something interesting.

[Charu]

Damn... this sounds like a start of a great discussion, dohoho.

Also, my favorite this week is Rising Blue Lightning. Not because it's a SSH song, but it plays wonderfully. Nice one hi19!

As for My Fxxcking Desire. It's okay, nothing totally wrong with it. Flows pretty nicely for me. That ending is just fucking BRUTAL though, holy shit.

[DossarLX ODI]

Originally Posted by Charu

Damn... this sounds like a start of a great discussion, dohoho.

Also, my favorite this week is Rising Blue Lightning. Not because it's a SSH song, but it plays wonderfully. Nice one hi19!

As for My Fxxcking Desire. It's okay, nothing totally wrong with it. Flows pretty nicely for me. That ending is just fucking BRUTAL though, holy shit.

He gave the judges a lot of crap for the file. He bashed me and called me an idiot for saying his 24ths looked bad, even though Halogen said the same exact thing. He fixed it before it went ingame though, so at least that's done.

[YoshL]

well, cmon at least give me one shot at middie's files. *wink*

at least i'm not like, attacking his person and telling him he should stop stepping*cough*

[Charu]

Oh yeah, I'm going to say bump it down to 84... maybe. Possibly 83!

EDIT: Yeah, I understand. Still though, sounds like a great start to this thread. I predict explosions!

[YoshL]

should instantiate something like a penalty to your next batch scores for being a whiny prick to judges for dumb reasons (including the ban of course)

[One Winged Angel]

You guys know I'm not a Middie fanboy or anything but I actually find the file really fun, spike ending and everything.

Also leaning towards 84 atm as well, just hesitant to place it there given the ending jumpstream speed compared to other files around that difficulty (Kidney Stone is constant 210bpm for a much longer pace, MFDFY is 240bpm [a huge jump up] for 8 bars)

[AlexDest]

i somewhat liked middie's file when i judged it

it was actually surprising that he stepped the jumpstream fluently

[Charu]

Oh yeah, the song style is completely empty. I also think it should be under Rock.

[DossarLX ODI]

MFDFY has way harder patterns at the end stream than A Kidney Stone along with being 30 BPM faster. It's definitely at least one point up from A Kidney Stone.

[EzExZeRo7497]

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

MFDFY has way harder patterns at the end stream than A Kidney Stone along with being 30 BPM faster. It's definitely at least one point up from A Kidney Stone.

MFDFY's jumpstream is much shorter than A Kidney Stone and the hard patterning only comes at the very last run of the file.

I kinda liked My Fxxkin Desire For You when I played it on SM, albeit some layering inconsistencies

[DossarLX ODI]

Originally Posted by EzExZeRo7497

and the hard patterning only comes at the very last run of the file

The roll-type patterns in the jumpstream are bad to play in FFR because there isn't any chord cohesion. Also consider do i smile's 16th speedup roll. "Easy patterns", right? But I get goods there more often than the stream after.