Okay, let's look at this again. This will be a mod with a lot of big ideas that use this map to apply to mapping in general. It might look overwhelming but I hope I can provide lots of good information on how to map well.
Hard Here's a short example I made of how I would map this, and maybe you can get some inspiration/ideas of what I am looking for: example thing - As a piece of general advice, I would use less patterns that overlap each other. It helps to make the map look cleaner and more readable, and makes things easier on Hidden players like me.
- I think the kiai sections could benefit from less triplets (three 1/4s in a row) to keep the vocals free and more consistent hitsounding to tie the map together.
01:14:656 (1,2) - I would recommend not putting a new combo under another note. It looks sort of odd from a visual standpoint, but also because I think stacks should only be used rarely when there's a good musical reason to do so. A stack stops the flow of the map, and spacing keeps it going.
01:15:348 (1,2) - I would change (1) to use a soft whistle sound, and (2) to use a normal hit sound, same for each two notes before a kiai time. I find if you put soft notes right before the beginning of a section using the normal sounds for notes, it helps increase the impact.
01:15:809 (3) - Add a new combo for the start of the kiai time.
01:20:425 (3,4) - For notes that are spaced like this, the spacing is high enough that I would just avoid the overlap entirely (see the example thing), as it looks neater. The other thing about this type of pattern is that it requires to player to start the second slider on a blue tick, which can be awkward. For some advice, try listening to what your map sounds like when only hearing circles and the starts of sliders, as this is what the player will be tapping to.
01:21:348 (1,2,3) - This is tough pattern to make look nice, because you want the distance of each blanket to be roughly the same.
Here's how I would go about it. Notice how the notes fit together snugly
and hold each other tight at night and whisper "I love you" in each other's ears and slowly take their partners closer and kiss them as if they'll never see each other again and fall asleep so they can be together in their dreams. That's how a good blanket should make you feel.02:44:425 to 02:48:117 - This is a big point in the song, and I think you've got the right idea with how it should be mapped. However, I would go further and make a star pattern (see the example thing again). This is an example of where I would use stacks, because the flow in this section starts and stops. I also used the Rotate (Ctrl+Shift+R) function to make it look neater.
There is likely more I could address in this post, but this is currently all I had the energy for. Let me know if you still want to keep using this map to find opportunities to improve or just put on some finishing touches to get it bubbled and rankable and apply these ideas to a different map. I do like to help as long as the mapper finds my advice useful, so just let me know.
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