Monster (Sped Up Ver.)

Hi, thank you for the wall.
I do agree with you on some points! Let me answer your points here.

1. I definitely should've toned down density outside of the choruses / kiais. I personally even think that simplifying some things as 1/1 altogether would work even better than trying to make some active stuff more passive. Especially with the slider velocity changes mentioned in #4495528 which I am also going to slightly adjust, 1/2 (reverse) sliders are going to look even more cramped and ugly than they are already currently that I want to avoid them as best as I can.

2. I represent the higher intensity in the chorus by using separated 1/2 circle patterns instead of stacks. While I do think that I should then also work with stacks on patterns like 00:22:369 (1,2,3,4) I really don't think that density is the big issue here. Maybe some active stuff being changed to passive outside of the kiai but that's about it.

3. In your last point it feels like you're contradicting with your previous points, no? The choruses really are not overly more dense rhythmically as you previously said yourself. The timestamps given consist of largely passive mapping, I never use more than 3 actives in a row and when I do use triplets they are surounded either by 1/1 breaks or passive mapping.
   The longest chains (again, a lot of passive mapping there) are justifieable with being mapped on peak intensity of the song. No change here.

Going to fix/change things about this after resolving most/all other mods since I needed to collect my thoughts first, you're asking a lot after all.

Will resolve tomorrow because I have to do quite some remapping

Hi, I have been summoned by my mentee for some mod resolving checks!

Emma adressed most of your stuff already but I also gotta agree that your last point does not really make sense. Ranking criteria clearly states that If a Normal difficulty is required and used as the lowest difficulty of a beatmap then you should avoid more than three actively clicked 1/2 rhythms in a row, which she's already doing. So, saying that this makes the diff inappropriate to act as a lowest Normal diff is just wrong.

Calling that the timestamped patterns (00:38:907 (1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4) - 01:13:360 (1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4) - 01:18:872 (1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4)) "too dense" is arguable but I do think that patterns that are 2 measures long, consisting of mostly passive rhythm are still alright, albeit at the top end of what you should do. Since they're used in the most intense sections of the chorus they're perfectly fine imo.

Also do note that 00:40:285 (1,2,3,4), 01:14:738 (1,2,3,4) and 01:20:251 (1,2,3,4) are clearly patterns that repeat throughout the chorus so arguing that the long chain uses too many different gameplay elements, making it confusing or smth is a weak argument

lowered density of some patterns outside of the chorus

i would add some variety in 00:40:285 (1,2,3,4) - etc moments. same rhythm but another representation. normal looks extremely ctrl+c ctrl+v'd (repetitive)

and yes, normal difficulty - it is mainly about 1/1 sliders and sometimes 1/2 ones. sure, here instrumental is very intense but still there are more 1/2 than needed. I would send examples of rhythms personally. Since in addition to the choice of rhythm, it is necessary to present a couple more of its "representations"

honestly, I kind of have to disagree with this one #4495530/11998286. I feel like this would actually make it "being to complex for beginners" a problem.
And aside from that, making the rhythm different / simplified kind of just feels super weird to me, idk?

I did some simplification in parts like 00:38:907 (1,2,3,4) though, staying in line with things like 00:44:419 (1,2,3) where the chorus fades out. I'm not the biggest fan of this because it kind of makes it even more repetitive but I've been told more than once now that 2 meassures of 1/2 gameplay might be a little much, although not blatantly unrankable :P

Reopening because I still need to completely fix this and it's gonna take a little

I forgor
This has been resolved a few days ago

I don't think this was adressed in the linked post actually so gladly take my kudosu LOL
And yea, not really sure why I made it different to 01:06:469 (1,2,3,1,2,3) in the first place

better idea - delete all before 00:05:832 - because 1) as i said before - music is enough quiet to skip; 2) from here starts harder difficulty - hard

00:11:344 - maybe even from there. we could also skip this 00:51:310 - 00:56:823 - too

starting at 00:05:832

00:05:832 & 00:51:310 yes, 01:31:276 no, keeping 1.1x here as it's noticably less intense as chorus.

Edit: Will resolve tomorrow because I have to do quite some remapping

did what I said I'd do

sure, will take me a while to do though as many of my patterns won't work anymore.
Also increasing AR to 6 (top end for Normals) because otherwise the map feels way too cramped now)

Edit: Will resolve tomorrow because I have to do quite some remapping

lowered base SV 1.2 -> 1.0, readjusted every single object in the entire map.
Also AR5 -> AR5.5