1. The bg image is full of ugly jpeg artifacts Can you try to remove them?
2. The edges of the hitburst images don't look very nice. Try to make them look smoother.
3. But more importantly, why are they not centered? This bothers me quite a bit.

1. 00:42:400 (2,3) - This spacing is surprising. Put them closer together to make it more readable. This would be best imo:
   
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   That's because the space between (2) and (3) is the same as the length of (2) from the beginning to the reverse arrow.
2. 00:45:213 (1,2) - This should also be closer, maybe the same spacing as (3,4,5).
3. 00:56:880 (1,2) - Starting from here it's fine though, since the player should be used to the rhythm now
4. 01:11:463 (7) - Stack with (3)?
5. 2:35 - 2:43 - I didn't really like this part... It's more difficult than the rest of the map all of a sudden... More specifically:
6. 02:39:275 (5,6,7,8,9,10) - Very hard to play. I recommend converting them to stacks of 2 notes each. I think this looks good and plays well:
   
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   Alternatively, you could use sliders.
7. 02:42:609 (5,6,7,8,9,10) - Same. ^
8. 02:35:942 (9,10,11) - These should be closer to each other, otherwise the rhythm change is surprising. Possibly like this:
   
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   You might want to move 02:36:671 (1) a bit closer to them as well.
9. 02:40:942 (3,4,5) - The rhythm is clear now, but maybe do the same here for consistency?
10. 03:25:942 (1,2,3) - Make this a little easier? Dunno...

1. I'd assume this map is unfinished, but since it's in pending it can't be?
   At any rate, this feels like a very unfitting moment to end the map. I recommend mapping it all the way to the end of the song.

1. 3:17 - 3:22 - This break interrupts the epicness of the finale and there's only 8 more notes after it... so, same as on ztrot's diff: map it!

[Events]
//Background and Video events
0,0,"bikini-anime-girl9.jpg"

1. Skin: spinner-circle.png is 763x763 when it should be 666x666 at most. (it's tricky to resize it, because it's background makes it look funky while spinning. You should probably just remove the whole spinner skin from the map)
2. Skin: hit300 and hit100 are a little too similar. Maybe consider removing the 300/100/50 hitbursts (and their g and k variations) from the skin in general?

1. I highly suggest tick rate 2 for this diff. Reason is at the slowed slider below.
2. All of your timing sections are 14ms too early (careful, some are 13ms too early, so they don't become late hehe). Not a big deal in general, but in this case that makes kiai awkward and wrong. Might take some time to go through and see which ones are 14 and which ones are 13, but it should be fixed.
3. 00:25:213 (5) - I am fine with this, but others might not be. It would be best to place a new combo here, and then another new combo after it (at 00:25:838 (6)). This also means you can remove a new combo at 00:27:088 (1), doesn't fit that nicely with it over there anyway. To make it even more readable, you can just make it a wiggle slider like you did with 00:48:130 (6). Not required though. If you made this diff have tickrate 2, then you would even see a tick on this slider, which is even a bigger indication that it's a slowed one.
4. 00:38:546 (1) - Remove this NC. Consistency reasons.
5. 00:48:130 (6) - This slider is being reported as broken. You can fix it by removing some of the end points. Look here how to fix. Just compare it to yours (remove some of the useless endpoints).
6. 01:51:880 (1,2) - Just a small nazi, make them symmetrical? (might need grid leve 4). Up to you, nothing gamebreaking.
7. 02:18:546 (1,2,1) - Maybe use 50%~ volume for these finishes? 40% is a little too low imo. (you used 50% later on and was a little better)
8. 02:39:275 (5,6,7,8,9,10) - This felt a little awkward. Just spread out the notes like you did before and after? Without overlapping those 2 in the middle. It's readable but it makes you think a little, while you should just hit it and move on.
9. 02:43:130 (10) - This one is less bad than the above one. Still, could be just a nice continuous stream.
10. 03:02:505 - I strongly suggest to add a circle here. That blue tick (thank god it's a slider) might be a little hard to read. Nothing critical, so only a suggestion. (you could stack it on the slider start, it's readable)

1. Same deal about timing sections.
2. 01:23:546 (1) - Finish?
3. 01:59:171 (2) - This clap is kinda distracting, you should probably remove it. You mapped them on white ticks anyway, this is a red one.
4. 02:20:213 (6) - Finish?
5. 02:50:213 (1) - ^
6. I noticed you tried to minimize the hitsounds, but I feel you minimized them a bit too much, some key finishes could be placed like I suggested.

1. Didn't really like the hitsounds that much, but they did make some sense, so nothing here.

1. Same deal about timing sections.
2. 00:22:713 (3) - Double repeaters are usually a very bad idea for easy (and normal in some cases) diffs if they used the same slider shapes as all other repeaters. I suggest that you change it's shape to something more unique, so it doesn't cause confusion. Or you can just make 2 sliders instead, same deal.
3. 00:46:880 (1) - Finish?
4. 00:48:130 (4) - ^ (at the end of the slider though)
5. 01:20:213 (6) - New combo (consistency, NC every 2 stanzas).
6. 01:33:546 (5) - Similarly to the reason above, you could place a NC here and remove it from 01:35:213 (1).
7. 01:56:880 (4) - New combo. This combo makes sense but it's kinda long for an easy diff.
8. 02:03:963 (6) - ^
9. 02:14:380 (3) - Finish at the end?
10. 02:26:046 (4,5) - 4 already has a whistle, but 5 doesn't. I strongly suggest to put it on 5 as well (listen to the music, the vocals go "SHOW TIME") because it really fits. This also affects everything after this, so everytime you hear SHOW TIME you could place a whistle on both.
11. 03:18:130 (1) - Remove this new combo, you used a NC ever 2 stanzas, this one breaks that pattern.
12. In general I thought this diff lacked some hitsounds. I seriously recommend placing claps on every 2nd and 4th white ticks through the kiai sections, will spice things up a little and make it alot more fun. This could also mean you could remove some of the whistles in kiai time as well, unless you want to have every note with a hitsound. Up to you.

click me!

New Ranking Guidelines wrote:

When skinning gameplay elements, complete sets of elements must be skinned. For instance, if you skin hitcircles, you must include a hitcircle.png, hitcircleoverlay.png, approachcircle.png, and a slider border color (this can be done by adding the line "SliderBorder: 255,255,255" (using RGB values) under the [Colours] section of each .osu file). The same logic applies to hitbursts, cursors, numbers, and anything else of this nature. If you didn't intend to skin an element in the set, then using the templateskin's version is okay. Setting a SkinPreference is also acceptable (e.g. forcing the default skin).

Garven wrote:

My first impression upon opening this in editor was wtf

Then I saw the Insane barcoding.

Anyway:

[General]
Tick rate 2 across all maps would be awesome *looks at easy* ~ Fixed~
00:48:130 - This kiai feels way early, even though I know you're trying to go with the synth. You don't get as much of an oomph/electrolytes that the kiai fountain craves that the bass drum that kicks in at 00:48:546 - elicits. I think it's good enough as it is, feels good to me.
02:48:546 (1,2) - It'd be cool if you could incorporate those circle waves in the SB to correspond with where the beats are in each map instead of only really fitting the Insane really well.

[Easy]
02:43:546 (1) - New combo usage during this section feels off. Im sorry, but I don't agree with you on that
That was a lot of 1/1/1 rhythms. zzz

[Normal]
01:03:963 (1,1,1,1,1,1) - New combo spam. :/ ~Fixed~
01:22:713 (1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) - :/ ~Fixed~

[Hard]
01:54:380 (3) - Really hard to tell this was a slider .~ Fixed~

SPOILER

02:38:755 (2) - Why have that extra beat? ~ Fixed~
02:39:275 (3) - I was expecting to go more with the music here instead of just having that long kick slider considering it's an echo part. ~Fixed~
02:36:880 (1) - When you go into the normal sound set for these parts, then stay in the soft set for 02:43:755 (1) - it feels really inconsistent. ~Fixed~

[Insane]
Good hell the skin makes so much glittery shit everywhere with these jumps, haha.

Nilsso wrote:

way to low AR on this map : /