approved was kinda like the old-times' loved. it did not give ranked score, which was used as the primary performance metric at the time. the map is approved, not ranked
the mapping is dreadful, i have played all diffs on ht and normal and still have no idea whats going on, the notes seem to loosely follow the rythmn of the song but the spacing and ordering is completely random, You'll have to be really amazing at this game to not have to try over and over again if you ever want to beat these maps with any level of decent combo.
Fun to play but garbage as an actual competetive map, the mod who approved this to be ranked was obviously having a laugh
The peak diff is actually very nicely made for the most part - it's a Kirby Mix diff, so the quirky 1/4 spacings are to be expected (and are doable since this is low BPM) and manage to give the map a really good vibe in certain parts (i.e. sharp turns, back and forth combos); it's not an easy map, not a pp rewarding map, but it wasn't supposed to be any of that.
It's a map from another era, and even though I wish we would see more of them these days still, but the meta has went away from silly or just way-off-the-norm maps for the most part - also keep in mind that back when this was ranked, the highest diff was approved, hence not counted into the ranked score (there was no pp, score was the measurement for rank), so it was never meant to be taken as a "mass-compatible" map.
Well this is an incredibly old map xD, and simply does not fit in with the way things are mapped today. The spacing is very inconsistent, as was the case for many maps of that era, and it was acceptable. Most of Starrodkirby's maps worked similarly to how this one does, look at his "Kirby mixes" lol. I mean, you can tell this mapping style isn't super popular anymore, very few people except WWW really even tried to FC BeuKirby, and his score is three years old. Great to see Lesjuh up there though, it's a good reminder that he did things except map DragonForce =D
What's hilarious about this though, is that even though we all say that "Oh, the guidelines were much looser back then" - and they were, because the Approved category didn't add to ranked score and the map could have very non-standard mapping, this map caused quite a ruckus because some of the difficulties were ranked, not approved, and other mappers were peeved because it wasn't an ENH spread. It's nice to know that the statement "Back in the day, they'd rank anything" isn't really true.
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