Requested Taiko mod. Sorry for beeing late.
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Kinomi's Muzukashii]
00:16:114 (53,54,55) - Mh. Questionable to use the kats here after you had so many dons. I would rather suggest to have ddkkd
00:17:131 (58) - If you should have changed the previous suggestion, you could change this note to kat. It would emphasize the the vocal a bit.
00:17:809~00:19:843 - I strongy recommend to use here the same patterns as before. These are the two last stanzas, so having there a pattern change would not fit to the overall picture of stanza 1 to14. 10 Stanzas have the same beat while the last two have not. Unlineal change.
{00:25:605~00:29:673 - Mh, kat constalation has a bit suffered by the beat-following mapping style. It dosen't sound very nice and dosen't have a nice gameplay feeling as well, in my opinion. To prevent this, I suggest you to have at
00:25:944 (15) - k
00:26:283 (16,17,18,19) - ddkk
00:27:131 (20,21,22,23,24) - a pattern change, since kats dosen't fit well enough here. I will show you what I got from 00:27:131 to 00:30:351 :
Yes, the first longer pattern isn't lineal, but on a BPM 177 it is still okay and fits better to the music. The patterns k d k and d k d would fit well together and act as "mirror-effect", while note (33) would fit to the song and gameplay pretty well. One more thing about the d k d pattern: You would have in this way a connection to previous pattern 00:23:232 (4,5,6) - .
}00:37:809 (64,65,66,67,68,69,70) - This one is fine. Song has really high pitches so it fits well.
{00:41:876 (83,85,87) - finishers would be actually nice. Would fit well to 00:44:588 (95) -
00:42:893 (87) - Moving this to 00:43:063 would be probably good. Reason is hearable.
00:43:232 (88) - deleting
00:43:741 - adding a kat
00:43:402~00:44:249 - You should have a ddd k k d d pattern now. Changing this to kkk d d k k might be better for a finer alternate of notes.
} I think this constalation might fit better. Just a suggestion.
01:18:656 (224) - How about a kat here? In this way you notice the lower sound of 01:18:995 (225) - better.
01:20:182 (230,231,232,233) - d kk d ? Emphasizes 01:21:368 (234,235,236,237) - kats better and makes a connection to the previous kats.
01:22:046 - Recommending to use a kat here. Feels clipped.
Map is okay, but I expected a little bit more. Mapping-wise it is justifiable but the flow and interaction of patterns has kinda suffered.
Maybe it has been tried to make the Muzukashii as easy as possible by having less notes(e.g. 1/2 tripletts). Due to this, some parts feel sometimes clipped. Might be the reason why -in my opinion- some kats are miss-placed.
That's just my own opinion about this situation, so don't have to take it to serious.
Hint: Sometimes having longer patterns(e.g. 8-plets mapped as 1/2) can help you having a better consistency between notes. It gives you also the possibility to emphasize gaps in this way more or prevent in general too many gaps between notes.
Also, having alternaiting patterns can give the player a better play-feeling, or make the patterns it-self more interesting.
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Kinomi's Oni]
You might want to consider deleting the 1/6. Not a problem, but somehow it has not a great effect at all. Due to the song, they feel a bit random and sometimes on certain parts where you normal should have used them as well, you didn't.
00:05:436 - adding a kat here would save the consistency of the kkdkk patterns.
00:09:334 (38,39,40,41,42,43,44) - Any reason for changing the pattern? This has been only used on Stanza 6. (thought I have no problem with it at all)
00:50:012~01:05:944 -
I recommend you to have some breaks here.00:31:029 (173) - A finisher hasn't been used here, so having some of them afterwards sounds strange, since you can feel and hear that the first finisher is missing. That's why I'm suggesting to delete this part from 00:30:690 to 00:33:232 and refere more to the finisher. They emphasize this part way better.
01:16:453 (497,498) - Not best suggestion, but make these to finisher and remove finisher at 01:17:131 (1) - ? After all, I think finisher shouldn't be used that often at the beginning of a stanza. As the name say, "finisher". But just my own opinion.
01:22:386 (40) - delete this note?
01:17:131~01:27:978 - I really think this part can be mapped better. From 01:17:131 to 01:22:215 you have more notes as at the coming part, so you are reducing instead of accelerating it, as the song normaly does. The climax is coming but the notes effect are allready lowered due to the previous emphasizes part. Excitement of player goes down.
I suggest you to use less notes. More 1/2 instead of 1/4 and 1/6. The near you come to the "pretence-kiai"(01:27:978) the more 1/2 and maybe 1/4 you should use.
01:33:232 - Considering the whole map, here should be normaly a 1/6, else there is inconsistency to the 1/6 patterns in the whole map. So it feels more random. You could also try just deleting the not 01:33:232 (118) - and having a gap, but then you would need to do the same with some other patterns. Well, the choice is yours. Just consider it in your next map.
01:36:114~01:37:300 - Somehow I miss the finishers. But that's fine.
As I said, 1/6 are in my opinion problematic here. They emphasize some parts too much where they normaly shouldn't do it, e.g. before the "pretence-kiai" start. Also their connection between them is not that well, which is due to the song. But sometimes they are missing in the map, so they appear in irregular intervals which make some pattern suffer.
Another problem is the less usage of breaks between certain stanzas. In Muzukashii you had many while in Oni you just mapped through many sections in some cases. Flow is in this way given, but as side effect of this, other parts are becoming less noticeable.
Well, that's it for now. Having about two/three more mods wouldn't hurt I guess.
Good luck.
