1. Ascension (6,8 stars, 2227 notes)

Ascension

1. July 26th: Submitted to WIP.
2. July 29th: Finished!
3. August 2nd: Mod by CLSW, Kurokami.
4. August 4th: Mod by lordraika, Sey.
5. August 5th: Mod by Spectator, ZHSteven.
6. August 10th: Mod by ursa.
7. August 16th: Mod by ZiRoX.
8. August 31st: Mod by mingmichael.
9. October 15th: Mod by Sey (2nd). BUBBLE #1!
10. October 16th: Mod by Spectator (2nd). BUBBLE #2!
11. October 20th: Mod by Xinely. QUALIFIED!!

lordraika wrote:

Another correction is Chapter 7 - Loom

1. 00:05:681 (2) - I really cannot find a beat here. If you do something like this it fits the rhythm a bit better in my opinion:
   
2. 00:07:230 (3) - If you map this sound you also would need to map 00:07:423 - , 00:07:617 - , 00:07:810 - because they are the same beats. However, if you applied my first suggestion you should keep consistenty here by doing a long slider with reverse arrow again.
3. 00:08:004 (1,2,1) - Maybe increase distance a bit to give it a bit more movement because the beat is quite loud here.
4. 00:26:520 (12,1) , 00:41:681 (3,4) - , 00:42:649 (3,1) - , and so on.... - I agree to put HDashes here. However, in your stream you didnt keep consistency on this beat. This drum appears quite often and there should be a HDash always at the same position. I show you what I mean:
   (1) 00:32:391 (3,4,1) - The drum beat appears here, you also added HDashes here, that's fine by me. But the HDashes BEFORE that section (please check them out by yourself again) are confusing because the music is too low for that. Consider reducing the distances here to keep just normal Dashes and only HDashes on the drum beats.
   (2) 00:38:681 (5,6) - Looking on the drum here again a HDash should appear here definitely. Don't worry about 2 HDashes successively, you already did it in your stream before.
5. 00:58:714 (4,1) - The HDash is fine but a normal CTB player expects another HDash to the left, this simply improves the flow here. Moving 00:59:488 (2) - to x: 96 here works fine, it plays smooth to me.
6. 01:01:810 (8,1) - Why a HDash here... I mean the beat is not even getting louder and it is coming out of nowhere. Just keep the distance as you had at 01:00:649 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) -
7. 01:03:746 (1,2,3) - I dislike this pattern. It doesn't play very smooth. An option would be to ctrl+G (2) and decrease the distance between the sliders to avoid any HDashes, still I am not 100% sure about this.
8. 01:33:165 (1,2,3,4,5) - I really didn't expect to get this easier from note to note, I'd make it exactly the other way around, like: https://osu.ppy.sh/ss/1885853
9. 01:36:069 (6,1) - There should be a HDash here because you also added one at 01:34:520 (8,1) - . This gives the whole part more consistency.
10. 01:38:585 (1,2,3,4,1) - Are you that sure about this? For me these many HDashes at the end of the Kiai are just frustrating and the Kiai is already quite hard with all its streams. And the spinner is barely catchable after so many difficult HDashes.
11. 02:27:564 (2,3) - Sounds really odd somehow, doesn't seem to fit the melody here. Suggest highly to delete (2) and (3) here and give the slider before one more reverse arrow.
12. 03:13:490 (2,1) - There should be a Dash here, as well as you put some at 03:08:753 (5,1) - , 03:10:464 (3,1) - (and so on)
13. 03:14:938 (2,1) - and 03:18:096 (5,1) - Though the rhythm changes a bit, there might fit a little Dash anyway.
14. 04:35:472 (2,1) - Maybe move (1) more to the right and create a dashy effect. Suits well to the music imo
15. 04:37:578 (1,2,3,4) - Increasing distances from note to note with a little HDash at the end (just if you want) seems better to me.
16. 04:39:157 (1) - Why does it end at a 1/8 tick? There is not beat here, extend it to the next 1/1 ticks and give it some proper hitsounds that matches the loud piano sound.
17. 04:50:013 (4,1) - HDash maybe? But if you do so get rid of the spinner and map on the notes which I also prefer because there are a lot of notes that can be mapped well inside of the spinner.
18. 05:20:014 (5,1,2) - You should consider adding HDashes here. The rhythm repeats here quite often, you always put HDashes on that section apart of that single one, consistency hi.
19. 05:54:950 (1) - x: 160 and I am happy
20. 06:47:057 (1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,5,6) - This part feels so odd... I would map on the 1/4 drums here because they are much more outstanding than the Piano voices at this part. Please think about remapping this section.
21. 07:13:801 (8,1) - Ok HDash goes to the left side of the screen, 1/4 section later suddenly starts at the right side, impossible to catch it.
22. Wasn't there a rule about 1/2 distances between note and spinner? ._. This rule counts also for 07:07:584 (1,1) - , 07:10:348 (1,1) - , 07:26:532 (1,1) - , 01:39:359 (1,1) - , 02:05:681 (1,1) - , 04:50:211 (1,1) - and 06:34:425 (1,1) - I know there were thousand discussions about it already, especially if that only counts before, after or before/after spinner, ranking criteria says after a spinner, but I personally also dislike this short distance before a spinner, so in the end this is probably up to you...

lordraika wrote:

ichia7x wrote:

http://cytus.wikia.com/wiki/L

ICE is the correct Artist name... just this >.< (/`w`)/

Long ago... i change ICE into Ice because of this...
Ice the composer himself saw this and ... http://ask.fm/koorikake/answer/106887180121

and 7 days ago... he clearly state this >>> http://puu.sh/aU6Af.png
Also what everyone saw on cytus credits part with the composer written as ICE.. beside illustration BG
i'm sure they will change it... http://puu.sh/aU7d8.png

^^ thx , but i will stick to the current one....

1. 00:32:391 (3,4) -
2. 01:04:778 - Maybe you can add a note here~
3. 01:14:585 (1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) - This felt too hard and weird to me. Maybe you can do this, it creates a nice feeling IMO:
   
   SPOILER

   1. 01:15:359 (1) - Move to x:400
   2. 01:15:746 (1) - Move to x:128
4. 01:44:778 (1,2) - I know it's 1/1, but this felt strangely unexpected to me. Reduce the distance a bit
5. 02:01:229 (1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6) - On this part, move each set of (4,5,6) 3 grid spaces (on level 3 grid)
6. 03:59:679 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12) - Increase the horizontal spacing
7. 04:01:160 (4,1) - Increase distance
8. 04:21:787 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24) - You could slowly increase the distance between notes
9. 05:55:739 (2,3) - I would move (2) a bit more to the left and (3) a bit more to the right
10. 05:57:318 (1,2) - Move them a bit to the right. I think a lot of players tend to move to the center of the screen on blank parts like these to have a better positioning for upcoming notes, so this might be a bit unexpected for sightread play.

1. 03:34:413 - 03:59:679 - Leave this as it is. While streams like 03:43:888 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24) - are what makes it feel lame/boring, I think it's adequate to what the song makes me feel.
2. 03:59:679 - 04:12:312 - The song changes a bit here, like it's a little bit happier, brighter, but retaining the sadness/loneliness feeling, and that's slightly reflected in more spaced streams and catcher movement. On that basis, you could make these streams a bit more spaced too:
   
   SPOILER

   1. 04:02:837 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16) -
   2. 04:05:996 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) -
   3. 04:07:575 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12) -
   4. 04:08:364 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11) -
   5. 04:09:154 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) -
   
   Evil Mapper Award goes to...
   Deif!

ZiRoX wrote:

(Short) Mod Time~

1. 00:32:391 (3,4) - (?)
2. 01:04:778 - Maybe you can add a note here~ (Not a very relevant point. Leaving it like that)
3. 01:14:585 (1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) - This felt too hard and weird to me. Maybe you can do this, it creates a nice feeling IMO: (Reduced the distance, but not so much)
   
   SPOILER

   1. 01:15:359 (1) - Move to x:400
   2. 01:15:746 (1) - Move to x:128
4. 02:01:229 (1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6) - On this part, move each set of (4,5,6) 3 grid spaces (on level 3 grid) (Where to?)

mingmichael wrote:

• change the 06:38:373 (2) - 's direction to the right side, like this :

i changed that direction to make it flow because the next note is on the left side. so i changed that reverse slider to the right side (so it'll be left~right~left for the direction) and it jumps to the left side (The antiflow there was intentional, and looks fun as it is)

1. Weird background size, can't you cut it to 1024x768? (or is there any special rule for storyboards? ._.) (That's a guideline, but as long as the format is 4:3 or 16:9 it's still ok)
2. Personally I'd prefer if you add another break into that song. There is no real time to calm down a bit before 04:53:369 - , so I would like to see that. For example you could erase 01:39:456 (1) - and add a single note at 01:40:907 - or shorten the spinner at 04:25:077 (1) - for example. The spinner at 02:05:778 (1) - could be WAY SHORTER as well. It's not much but still something if a player needs to pause for a moment. (I thought the beginning of the second song was enough for the player to recover uguuuu)
3. 00:39:165 (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7) - This stream is very boring. If you reach it properly you don't need to do anything apart of keeping the position. Please shift some of these notes to make this more interesting. (I think you're the 1st one to point it out! Thanks, changed)
4. 01:01:810 (8,1) - I didn't expect any HDash due to the previous patterns, I'd prefer if you keep this consistent with them and remove the HDash. Just select 01:02:198 (1,2,3,4) - and move it slightly to the left, (Appeared also in 00:55:617 (8,1), not that tricky imo)
5. 01:33:165 (1,2,3,4,5) - Wouldn't it be more logic if the distance rises from note to note? Just a suggestion anyway, I personally dislike decreasing dashes. In case you don't understand what I mean, I prepared a screenshot: (Alright, done)
6. 01:39:165 (4,1,1) - I hate HDashes before streams but meh... Maybe at least a higher distance between note and spinner to make this whole thingie feel less forced, for example: (Agreed, also the visibility of the last note increases)
   
7. 02:05:617 (6,1,1) - I could say the same as above. As well it's pretty much impossible to catch the spinner in a whole since the first important Banana appears far more left than the note at 02:05:681 (1) - . I am not sure if I pointed out some similar stuff in my previous mod already, but can't hurt to give some more reasons to my thinking. Same counts for 07:07:584 (1,1) - , 07:13:900 (1,1) - and 07:26:532 (1,1) - . (I know you will keep it) (Why should I keep it if it's reasonable to change? :p)
8. 03:20:991 (4,5,6,7,8,9) - I find this pattern very disturbing. I love how you mapped the whole Loneliness part but somehow I'd prefer to see a normal stream-pattern with some higher distance here because you did map the piano music afterwards very similar. This breaks the flow a little because it requires some quite dashy movement already and all of a sudden in a (still) quite calm rhythm. (Sure, changed)
9. From 03:26:518 - until 03:31:255 - there are two different piano voices you can focus on. Some more "high pitched" piano and the one with the "lower tones". Since you kinda mixtured them up I find this section a little confusing. As for example I would ONLY focus in the high pitched piano - which means you would not map the following beats: 03:28:097 (1) - , 03:29:281 (1,2) - (apart of the first note) and 03:29:281 (1,2) - (apart of the first note). That's a matter of taste anyway, I just find it more clean that way. (Good point, though leaving the low-pitched piano sounds unmapped would make that part feel empty. Gonna leave it as it is by now >< Decreased the volume of those notes to give more importance to the other ones)
10. 04:05:601 (9,10,1) - Feels a bit rough, decrease just a little please. (Reduced distance there)
11. 04:24:878 (24,1) - Little higher distance suits well to the music. How about x: 208 for (1)? (/o/)
12. 04:43:894 (1) - Please move this 2-3 grids more to the right. Dash is okay but this one feels very rough and too surprising, barely catchable and I guarantee it will lead to some misses and frustration. (Moved the previous slider instead, same effect)
13. 05:36:791 - Give this green line an audio of something between 50-60% and add a Finish hitsound at the slider end. There actually is a cymbal and it can be emphasized like that way better. (I didn't hear it so well, hence increased that section only to 40%)
14. 06:01:069 (6,1) - You think you maybe can add a HDash somehow by re-arranging the previous pattern? I think it fits better due to the harsh piano sound at 06:01:266 - . Same counts for 06:02:450 (6,1) - btw. (Not that harsh compared to the high-pitched piano sounds of the previous notes)
15. 06:17:846 (1,2,3,4,1,2) - I dislike this pattern, especially because you go from high HDashes to Dashes. Plays awkward in my opinion. I would have done it vice versa. Starting again with lower and going to higher distance. (Hope it's more pleasurable now!)
16. I don't know what to think about these patterns from 06:48:636 - until 06:50:117 - . I don't like them but up to you if you wanna think of something else here. Lemme explain what I hate about them so much: A soft move to the right like we have at 06:49:031 (4,5) - is contraproductive if you need to dash all in a sudden back to the left again at 06:49:294 (6,1) - . This thing will lead to frustration again, I appreciate a more simple pattern like triangle shapes: (Made them softer)

Ascension

1. 00:35:681 (2,1) - It flows better if you have HDash between 00:35:681 (2) and 00:35:875 (1) , please move 00:35:875 (1) to x:80 and also 00:36:068 (2) to x:240
2. 01:29:294 (1) - Try this
3. 02:18:221 (2) - how about moving this to x256, I'm just bit worrying that the jump between (2) and (3) is bit random
4. 02:34:407 - I highly suggest you to add note here and move spinner to 02:34:539, I feel empty because there's nothing on 02:34:407 but just spinner
5. 03:34:413 ~ 03:59:679 - This part, I feel little boring & pretty easy to make a dummy miss here. So I just listed some tricky parts
6. 03:55:666 (12,1) / 03:39:085 (24,1) / 03:48:560 (24,1) / 03:53:297 (12,1) - You have two options on each parts, the first one is adding a HDash between them. If the first way doesn't perform well, I'd suggest you to improve & fix the pattern here. especially 03:53:297 (12,1) this one
7. 04:06:884 (10,11) - It seems pretty random to me, how about moving (1) to x:184 to make this part easier?
8. 04:24:879 (24,1) - This is the end of one part. I'm sure that having a HDash between (24) and (1) should be better and more impactive than now. try x:96 for the (1)
9. 04:53:303 (9,1) - Expect larger jump here, please move (1) to about x:60
10. 05:06:001 - I feel like the sound is bit loud. Try 25%~30% for this timing point
11. 05:10:738 - If you applied above suggestion, this one has to be fixed too
12. 05:11:922 / 05:12:317 / 05:12:317 / 05:18:238 - ^
13. 05:27:712 (3,4,1) - Please add Hdash between (4) and (1), or at least please reduce the distance between them.
14. 05:39:555 (2,3) - How about moving (2) to x:294 and (3) to x:370. For me they seem much better than before
15. 05:55:739 (2) - x:401? Also it would be sound better if you add soft-sampleset on (2) and (3)
16. 05:56:529 (3) - If you applied above one, don't forget to remove clap
17. 05:51:002 (1) - imo, x:176 looks way better
18. 06:32:846 - I find this part little boring, how about trying sth like this picture?
19. 06:41:728 - Add clap
20. 06:48:636 ~ 06:50:084 - Personally I feel little awkward here, try this/
21. 07:00:281 - Please add greenline here with soft-sampleset
22. 07:00:479 - Also, If you applied above one, don't forget to change this one too
23. 07:01:268 ~ 07:20:216 - Don't you think that this part is way too loud? Highly suggest you to change the volume into 20%
24. 07:24:953 (1,2) - Pretty easy to make miss here, http://osu.ppy.sh/ss/2138516 << you should try this, (1) to x:233 and (2) to x:352

Spectator wrote:

1. 06:48:636 ~ 06:50:084 - Personally I feel little awkward here, try this/ (Just reduced the distance there to make it less tricky. I'll keep it if possible)