1. Hikaru Genji (4.29 stars, 189 notes)
2. Tamakazura (0.61 stars, 81 notes)
3. Yuugao (2.14 stars, 130 notes)

1. Ouendan difficulties are mapped in a completely lyrics-based manner. Patterns were meant to be reminiscent of authentic maps, mainly inspired by VISTA, Julia no Shoshin and BANG! BANG! Vacance.
2. This is made easy on purpose for the new and/or less able players, being part of my endeavour for new player rights.
   
   1. By modern osu! standards, this is probably one Easy and two Normals.
3. Difficulty titles are derived from respective character names from Genji Monogatari, the source of thematic inspiration of this song.
   
   1. Tamakazura (Yuugao's daughter) < Yuugao (a female in the story, as mentioned in title) < Hikaru Genji (protagonist).
4. Other tag explanations:
   1. moonflower = literal translation of Yuugao / 夕顔, included for the sake of completeness
   2. Keiichi Okabe / 岡部啓一 = composer, nicknamed (and reflected in SongIDs) bko
   3. Hana Kikuchi / 菊地はな = lyricist, part of design group BUKKORO
   4. Murasaki Shikibu / 紫式部 = author of Genji Monogatari
5. Suggest about intrusive whistle hitsound and combo colors. Will love them.

1. Taiko difficulty are authentic as from AC12.5, 13 and 0, Wii2 and Wii4. Please only suggest inconsistency fixes or changes to difficulty schemes for these.

Teru21 wrote:

Hi from my queue xD

[General]
- Try to end the kiai properly , I suggest you to end the kiai 01:48:892 - , and burst the last kiai here 02:00:610 http://puu.sh/2Vrgj.jpg authentic issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZqpWzSHCA reveals the final Go-go time ends 02:03:892 instead, but ended nevertheless
- Try to start all the diff on the same spot you added your offset on 00:00:142 - , so can't u start map the standard diff there? it isn't hard to map the start :3 dont be lazy meh xDD 1. authentic issue. 2. Almost all authentic Ouendan starts with a little of the intro, then a countdown, then notes. I miss them countdowns too much.
- Nice slider you have there I don't know why.. it looks like Niva's a lot wwwwwwwww
- I see 2 Taiko no Tatsujin - Yuugao no Kimi (mattyu007).osb on your songfolder, you take that from other map or what? remove it from your song folder *rubs forehead, removes the excess files while pointing to description*

Authentic Oni difficulty, background and lyrics storyboard taken from mattyu007's previous work. Thanks!

[Easy]
- At least CS3 for easy map o3o please? its just too small for beginners I hope you realize what you wrote, although I kinda get what you want to say. Also dude everything is so fat now lol.
- The map whole of it good but, imo its too boring and monotone for newbies nowadays, but there is something hard too on the back of the song. Imo its not balanced enough o3o
00:15:142 - add a soft finish hitsound here, it fit much http://puu.sh/2Vqdk.jpg
00:18:892 (2) - don't you think it sounds annoying? try to reduce the volume on the slider so it'll sounds nice more than annoying, I suggest you 50% It fit nicely
00:22:642 - add a soft finish hitsound here, it fit much √
00:26:392 (2) - same goes as above , try to reduce the volume on the slider so it'll sounds nice more than annoying, I suggest you 50% It fit nicely √
00:30:610 (1,2,3) - you shouldn't add these circle on the second and four beat like that, too hard for beginner and its hard in Hidden mode, Heavy note are important in easy and normal, be sure you don't miss them out xD so, move it to 00:30:142 - and change (3) into a 1-1/2 slider, so it'll end 00:32:720 - and add a reverse of course you must remove (4) after that :3
00:30:142 (1) - if you move it to what I said on ^ , add a soft finish hitsound
00:33:892 (4) - same goes as above, try to reduce the volume on the slider, and change the other that have whistle hitsound
00:38:110 (1,2,3) - same as above too
Julia no Shoushin authentic has three waves of notes at offbeat. Elaborate. Also now WHY ON EARTH WOULD A PLAYER PLAY A MAP ON HIDDEN RIGHT FROM THE START HAD THEY ANY KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE MAP GOES? Annihilism? Anyway if you insist it done away, I offer you a circle on the large white tick, a slider over 迷いて/切なく and removing respective (3)s and (4)s.
00:45:142 (1) - just a horizontal slider? won't it be boring? o3o try this one xD http://puu.sh/2VqtF.jpg , it fits with the vocal too xD and have good looks xDD My inner perfectionist, utilitarian and myself all object to this. This is not Rock Band.
00:47:485 (2,3,4) - try to turn this into a slider with a reverse, or move 00:47:954 (3) - to x:104 y:204 ; 00:48:423 (4) - x:180 y:244 , it should looks like a curve now xD Move if you insist. Also you are suggesting at 1.10 instead of 1.00 which the map has been on.
00:48:892 (5) - line too? curve it xD will looks good. and good flow with the previous circle if you change ^
00:52:642 (1,4) - same goes as above
Urgh this is the first suggestion I actually agree on.
01:03:892 (6) - the last slider dot (the third slider dot) move it 1 grid to the left, will looks more symmetric with the circle Thanks dude.
01:11:392 (6) - ^ but move it 1 grid to the right xD I know. I am not illiterate in geometry. I just suck at it.
01:12:798 (7) - remove this and 01:11:392 (6) - add a reverse to this (6) is for the る and (7) is for the cymbal. They are not related enough to share a returning slider.
01:13:267 (1,2,3) - this is what I'm talking about above, its waaaaaay too hard for beginners, you can keep the rhythm, but at least, change it to a slider reverse What about the talk about heavy notes and stuff. Anyway I want to argue with GLAMOROUS SKY's last 4 notes in the 1st scene, but a returning slider ain't half bad here. So yeah.
01:15:610 (2,3) - the (3) hit the (2) , it doesn't look tidy, so curve (3) and make it looks symmetric kay? I mean like this http://puu.sh/2VqV7.jpg I am keeping (3) straight and reorienting its tail instead, making it // to (4)'s radius. I feel that a short slider like this gets really messy when curved
01:17:017 (4) - end the slider 01:17:954 - , I told you that heavy beats are important right? , If you ^ done this, try http://puu.sh/2Vr3T.jpg , it keeps the flow nicely xD also, the (4) won't hit the 01:18:892 (1) - too xD Oh look, authentic Kantan has either no notes there, or a whole slider in the exact same interval. How spiffy.
01:19:829 (3,4) - ^ ^
01:23:579 (3) - ^ ^
01:29:204 - add a note here, it sounded weird and stops the flow. Since you so nicely suggested for 01:13:267, I am not going to waste it and apply it here too
01:31:313 (2,3,4) - too hard for beginner, turn this into a slider with a reverse
01:35:063 (2,3,4) - ^
I am going to give in as far as coincide them to the mid-point. This is a keystone part that deserves the three notes being separate circles.
01:38:579 (3) - same goes as above and same goes as above
01:56:392 (5) - curve this, too much linear slider, tries to curve the slider untill the end of the slider form a polygonal shape with 01:54:517 (3,4)
01:58:267 - add a different slider velocity on an easy difficulties is just too hard, keeps it 1.0x please. I also don't see anything special with 1.5x on that part That was before you confirming sliders as short as 01:13:267 is OK by the eye of the public.

[Normal]
- all of your problem are too much linear pattern and linear slider, please change it to other pattern, there is so much pattern you can choose, like curve, pentagon etc What I have a lot of tilted triangle patterns here

[Hard]
- this is the hardest difficulty in standard, at least, make it harder, like Hard+ As long time activist for new player rights, I contend this set be of no difficult difficulties for the sake of the less able.
00:15:376 (2,4) - try to curve this slider a bit Reoriented.
00:18:423 - add a note here, or add a 1/2 note , of course delete 00:18:657 (1) - Lyrics-based all the way. The お of 終わり逢瀬 is here.
00:22:876 (2,4) - try to curve it, you see (2)'s slider end touch the 00:20:767 (3)'s slider, so curve (2) untill it not touches together xD Curving don't solve the problem here enough. The (2)s are reoriented instead.
00:25:923 - same goes as above, add a note or add 1/2 slider Lyrics-based all the way. お of 澱のように here.
00:30:142 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - you should try add another pattern you copy-paste a lot This is maintaining consistency. Plus similar constructs are seen a lot. See VISTA, Zoku and Samurai Blue.
01:14:673 - add a note here, should fit in with a soft-finish or normal-finish, both sounds good Another rare one that I agree.
01:43:618 (2,3,4,5,6) - place this on other place, it touch the previous slider , and make it more far distance, too easy for the hardest diff Relocated, but in essence the cluster is the same thing.

it gets so looooooooooooooooong already so i'll leave now wwwww good luck on ranking xD

zorefire wrote:

From queue

• [Tamakazura]
  1.Lord Jesus that BG is kinda weird well I don't understand Japanese or Chinese which ever language it is so it might go with it but you should really change it to something more relevant. Yuugao is literally this flower, used in Genji Monogatari as an identifier for a girl in the story (there's another gourd-ey plant also called Yuugao, but for the sake of origin this is better). I promise you, paintings directly based on Genji Monogatari looks weirder. This flower is at least 50% better than this.

1. 00:43:266 (6) - x:360 y:276 make it look better Fixed, and also previous iteration.
2. 01:12:797 (7) - fix please Fix what exactly? If you mean the distance, then let me inform you that between (7) and (1) is meant to be a 1.5x jump.
3. 02:00:610 (1) - spinner instead? *adds and sees* Uh... nah. To me this lingering note is not a spinner type kind of lingering note.
   [Yuugao]
   Well it this doesn't stat thats its an easy or normal diff so I wont complain on it being to hard Take that easy map haters. Easy maps has a following too.
4. 02:00:610 (1) - spinner again :/See above about lingering note not spinner type lingering note.

Setsurei wrote:

[General]
whistle sound kinda not suitable for the song (find a better sound effect)
no combo colors? default color seems ugly imo
I am more of a chart person so I rarely consider about peripheral settings like these and will probably suck big time.
Will put in the design notes section so that future modders can suggest stuff on these.

EDIT: Guy above suggested any whistle parts be reduced to 50% volume. Comment.

[Tamakazura]
easy diff should have a default distance - for example:
01:13:267 (1) - Moved towards (7)
01:18:892 (1) - Moved 12px towards the centre. Can't move too much or the (4) will cover the next (2)
01:22:642 (1) - Moved 12px towards the centre. Reason as above and with respect to symmetry. Also wrt. symmetry 01:37:642 (1,2,3,4) is respectively moved
01:30:142 (1) - This however I cannot give in more than a few px, because the red combo is a keystone component of the coming part, and I am putting a lot of emphasis here. That's why I am striving to show the whole red (1) and not covering half of it with blue (1) like in previous combos.
^ they're a bit jumpy for a beginners

01:44:204 (1,2) - this one you better move it to another spot, overlap
>tries vertically flip --> too far away
OK then, condensed to centre point

[Yuugao]
01:12:564 (5,6,7,1,2,3) - snap this, it also will confuse beginners (5)~(7) is the same distance ratio as previous notes. (1)~(3) was devised to have a more apparently increased distance ratio to prominently show that these three are farther away from each other, which is now rescaled.
01:29:204 (1,2,3,1) - ^ Can't think of any way to keep the triangle, so reshaped.
01:51:704 (2,3,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - don't put this linear, kinda ugly Zigzag is go yay
01:58:267 (1,2,3,4,5,6) - snap this, it also will confuse beginners Increased distance ratio for emphasis.

[Hikaru Genji]
00:34:595 (3) - make it blanket?
00:42:095 (3) - ^
This is a very poorly done imitation of this pattern in the authentic chart of VISTA (Hard/Insane). For reference, see the blue (5)~(7) at around 0:36 of this video.

some patterns are too linear:
00:15:142 (1,2,3,4) -
00:22:642 (1,2,3,4) -
(2)s and (4)s are already slightly plummeted to avoid too much straightness. Actually considering also the slider movements it is like a little dance
00:51:001 (1,2,3,4,5) - Really curvy paths are weird here, but at least the two parts are now not parallel and boring
^ change them to curve

01:56:860 (2,3,4) - unstack this
01:57:797 (6,7,8) - ^
02:00:142 (1,2,3,4) - ^
Nah, to dense to be separate.

overall the placements are tidy
need to modify the hitsounds, I can't mod them well sorry
good luck for ranked!