Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

[TC_Halogen]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

Watched Alice's Garden on autoplay to see if the file was as bad as people were making it out to be.

The structure is there, but the main issue I have with the file is that some of the flams in the chart feel a bit arbitrary because, for an easy chart, the distance is quite negligible to be jumps as opposed to separated. Some of the grace notes seem visually incorrect in terms of distancing.

[XelNya]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

middie can you stop stepping good songs and ruining them please, thank you

Even if you don't like it, which you're obviously not going to, I'm gonna keep doing it. I happen to like charts like these.

Alice's Garden: Maybe it should be bumped up a few difficulties

I agree with this however it's a mellow chart, but the graces do make it harder to hit if you're a newer player looking at it.

Also Aj, assuming I am interpreting what you're saying right, is that people can't hit the graces as jumps, that was sort of intended. It's more fun that way than just cheating it.

[Xiz]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

Alice's Garden
I love the song but the file drags a bit. I liked playing it though.

Sagano Rakuyou Emaki
Holy trombones and a pogo-stick batman! This file is really damn fun. I can def see myself playing this many many times. Best file of the week IMO.

Suit Up
Good song choice, but it kinda dragged a bit. Lots of repetition. However, this file was fun to play so I'm cool with it.

XTC Hill Zone Act 24.7
This file is annoying, in a good way haha. This one is gonna take me a lot of time to get the hang of, I accept your challenge.

[mi40]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

go back to twei mark park and leave our flashbulb alone

[Ohaider]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

Songs of the Week (July 26, 2013) v2

[Xiz]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

I really think Suit Up should be more of a 46-48 IMO.

Open to critique >.>

[bmah]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

Make a difficulty thread about it if you can point to some objective qualities. Similarly, I wonder if XTC is a 65.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

Suit Up:
- The 16ths offsetted as 64ths are an entire frame off and it's noticeable. The song runs at 110 BPM for those sections, and a 64th is a guaranteed frame off (possibility of two, but in this case that didn't happen)
- The sudden long jack with the trill is a huge spike in FC difficulty for this file
- Severe slowdowns such as the 27.5 one are entirely unwarranted. There is a hi-hat going at 110 BPM 4ths and stepping them as 16ths at 27.5 BPM is ridiculous. The unnecessary low BPM usage needs to stop; even the 55 BPM ones are pushing it.

[popsicle_3000]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

]XTC Hill Zone: The steps have a sort of retro feel to them, both in layering and pattern choice,

AH! that's what it was. i knew i liked it a lot for some reason, just couldn't put my finger on why. I'm a sucker for that retro feeling file.

[bmah]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

- The 16ths offsetted as 64ths are an entire frame off and it's noticeable. The song runs at 110 BPM for those sections, and a 64th is a guaranteed frame off (possibility of two, but in this case that didn't happen)

While a 128th arrow would've been preferable, you can just nudge those arrows a frame and send me the swf again.

- The sudden long jack with the trill is a huge spike in FC difficulty for this file

It's not even a huge spike, but really, people need to stop being obsessed with consistency as if Vertex Beta was the top role model for a file.

- Severe slowdowns such as the 27.5 one are entirely unwarranted. There is a hi-hat going at 110 BPM 4ths and stepping them as 16ths at 27.5 BPM is ridiculous. The unnecessary low BPM usage needs to stop; even the 55 BPM ones are pushing it.

I personally think this is a stylistic choice in this case, and I'll be damned if a judge takes off points for this.

[qqwref]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

128th arrow

bmah, there's no such thing as a 128th arrow. Come on.

It's not even a huge spike, but really, people need to stop being obsessed with consistency as if Vertex Beta was the top role model for a file.

It's easy to tell people to "stop being obsessed with consistency" when you can AAA the chart (so difficulty consistency doesn't affect you). Dossar is talking about a long jack in a file without any, and long jacks are naturally hard to FC with or without mashing. This spike may matter a lot to someone who can FC everything else in the chart.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

It's easy to tell people to "stop being obsessed with consistency" when you can AAA the chart (so difficulty consistency doesn't affect you). Dossar is talking about a long jack in a file without any, and long jacks are naturally hard to FC with or without mashing. This spike may matter a lot to someone who can FC everything else in the chart.

Long jacks are very hard to FC compared to spread out patterns. Someone can have a lot of difficulty FCing the beginning of Largiloquent Dithyramb but do great on many other FGOs. So yes, if there is a long jack like that which stands out, I will mention it.

If someone is going to offset notes, they should take the effort to snap it appropriately. DDReam or a recolorizer works for this.

Also making a color mess is not a stylistic choice, that's just being rude. If a song is 120 BPM, you don't slow it down to 30 BPM if there are clear 4th rhythms in it at the normal BPM. Someone could submit a 240 bpm 16th stream file as 60 BPM 64ths and call it a "stylistic choice".

[ilikexd]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

i think suit up is really cool and well done

however i agree with dossar that a lot of the bpm changes were just ridiculous

the bpm halving when the background cuts out a few times is a very nice affect, but

the beginning wasnt halved which is like one of the more reasonable places it could be done (it was halved in other places that sound the same as here)

@ around 400 and 850 is kind of absurd to have 32nds and 64ths, if anything it's more reasonable to raise the bpm

of course it's a stylistic choice, and not everybody would approach the song by changing the bpm a dozen times, but that alone isn't a justification, there should always be a good reason to make use of bpm change.. doubling/having bpm to accentuate how energetic/mellow a part of a song is is a good choice (like all the very short halving when the bg cut out was great), but it was done counterintuitively here a few times

i dont think the long trill is over the top though

[mi40]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

notice how the simfile author says

DarkZtar

and not

DossarLX ODI/qqwref

[DarkZtar]

Re: Songs of the Week (August 24, 2013)

I like green~