1. Ono's Taiko Oni (4,94 stars, 949 notes)
2. WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BLACK (5 stars, 746 notes)

i remapped this btw
(it also has easier diffs)

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Fine. Whatever. Do what you want. Apparently nothing is right in this game anymore. If you want to complain about a map, please think that the mapper is a person first, and they worked hard to get their map approved. It's not because I'm a MAT that I could get this map ranked in 1 second. Please think about it. I have reasons to approve this map and people who like it. Respect them too.

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play scarlet rose

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this guy at reddit wanted me to change my description so i did it

Right before the countdown to the song begins, you'll be asked, "Who's afraid of the big black?" The answer is "no."

This is hardcore stuff here, pal. You're not cheering on a student trying to study for his exam, or a doctor trying to fix a microwave. You're cheering on warriors of black, fighting hard, fighting on for the speed, through the wastelands evermore. Do you really have what it takes? I don't think so.

I've even set all the sliders to the default Normal settings, and this level still gets 5 stars. Why? Because it's just that bloody hardcore, mate. This is the very definition of hot-blooded rhythm soul. This is Osu Hero 3: Legends of Ouendan.

So go sit in a corner and wait until I release Normal mode. Or, if you do decide to try this out, don't say I didn't warn you.

this beatmap was made in december 2011 after i joked with quaraezha about how mapping speedcore would be impossible.
interestingly enough, this map is still a joke

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to play The Big Black. The flow is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical mapping most of the patterns will go over a typical player's head. There’s also Blue Dragon’s symmetrical outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal structure draws heavily from iNiS architecture, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these patterns, to realise that they’re not just fun to play- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Big Black truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in The Quick Brown Fox’s existential catchphrase “Who's afraid of the big black?” which itself is a cryptic reference to Riddler’s American epic Batman Forever. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Blue Dragon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

I don’t accept that rrtyui has won against FunOrange. Even if he will win against FunOrange, because he tried over 2500 times. While FunOrange only tried 876 times, and beat the shit out of this. That’s not competition. That’s not a map scoreboard that’s supposed to happen. I do not accept that FunOrange lost to him, only fools would see it that way. At his best FunOrange is amazing, possibly more amazing than rrtyui is, but until that happens, FunOrange is the #1 at this one. Not rrtyui.

It's been fun, but shit's broken. It was naive to think that two mapping styles so fundamentally distinct from each other could coexist within the same ranking system without causing conflicts, but I spent far too long mapping and practicing, learning the precise and fast way of mapping symmetrically, to not want to believe there was a way to make it work. And in some ways, it almost did work; great maps from m980, MetalMario201, RandomJibberish, and NotShinta were regarded well within the community, maps that were interesting because they were authentic, part of some niche that pushed the limits of how songs could be mapped, but never went too far. Or when they did go too far, people tried to resolve the issue. iNiStyle died a silent death, and although there are many reasons as to why those maps really shouldn't be ranked at all, it's probably also unanimously agreed upon that, while impressive in their own right, OTO/EBA style should never be considered the most impressive mapping style in the game, by any means. In hindsight, it should've been obvious that a compromise held up only by the lack of generic maps wasn't going to last, but for a while there was a grey area. No maps were that straightforward to play, and most good scores required a high level of unconventional reading and aim at the very least, along with extremely boring patterns and copypasting. But mapping has been following a much more experimental and difficult trend as of late, catering to the ever-growing base of players proficient in 6* maps, and this is a great trend that will hopefully reinvigorate and contribute to the competitive scene of top players. But it also means this compromise isn't going to last anymore. The Big Black isn't an easy map. It may be one of the most difficult maps I've ever been able to set a score on. But there is a reason that the map is 6.58*, and it isn't because of the constant stamina heavy 360bpm tapping throughout the entirety of the map. It's because of the damn star pattern towards the end; pretty much throws everyone off. That's it. And it isn't easy to hit, even on touchscreen, since it requires rapidly changing focus from one spaced note to the other, but at this level of difficulty it's no longer reasonable to try and compare that to the analogous motion of dragging a cursor back and forth across the screen with inhuman levels of speed and precision to hit the goddamned stream. And it's not fair for the pp system to use that comparison to rank rrtyui with a 322pp play, among FunOrange, who is the true #1. Maybe one day Big Black will become a separate map from the game and will be its own game, although chances are it will just die from lack of staff interest or an active playerbase. FCing Big Black really does take skill, and I wish there could be a competitive scene based around it. But it's selfish of me to try and turn Big Black into my own game, at the expense of other's enjoyment. Sorry to anyone who might have disagreed with me before, or who will disagree with me after this, but I think leaving this game until Big Black is considered the best map in the game (if it even can be) is the best course of action. Also sorry to idke, who was dragged into all of this despite not deserving any of the hate us copypasta creators get. obligatory plz enjoy game quit w etc etc

Finally done with that piece of worthless junk. Crap, Blue Dragon, when you started making things like Blue Dragon and Enya maps, I actually started getting my hopes up that you were finally going to break out of your terrible Renard and Gangsta stage and start cranking out truly admirable maps. Even though Soca Party raised a red flag or two, I still had high hopes. And then this self-indulgent pretentious abomination gets vomitted onto the site. This is not only your worst map, but possibly the worst map I have ever seen. Why? Others were bad as satire, ignorance, age, or inexperience. You qualify for none of these categories, you have no excuse.

Believe me, I have nothing against speedcore, be it splittercore, hardcore, or harsh noise. And I have no problem with someone in the osu community championing the genre as a flagship of broadening horizons. What I do have a problem with is that you, the person championing it, have absolutely no respect for the music or its structure. At the slightest hint of a synth or hit of a snare drum, you are more than happy to start disregarding the music and just throwing ugly and pointless jumps where you just make the distance and position anywhere you feel like, no matter how awful the end result is.

This vulgar excuse for a map reeks of every stupid and arrogant Nogardism the community has had to bear witness to: Extreme jumps with no musical reasoning, sky high DS at random times, streams that just decide to jump to some random part of the playing field with no warning, buckshot spread sliders with no cohesive structure, streams that space out to absurd degrees, rampant abuse of symmetry and BPM doubling to cover up lazy mapping, slider jumps that clearly are just cases of Ctrl+H and Ctrl+J abuse, and worst of all, using the music genre as your own little shield to justify every little moment of "I map like this because fuck you, I'm Blue Dragon" you can stuff in your pathetic and self-subservient maps.

Stop using songs as canvases for your abhorrent "artistry", stop using your cult of personality to force your lazy work on others, and stop thinking that maps are good just because a computer designed to perfectly perform with flaw can manage to beat it.

Kurisuchianu wrote:

Recomended to play with 512MB of video with Intel 3 imo