Ok. The main thing is the spread. The Density from Normal -> Hard is extremely high, with the note density being doubled. I'm going to assume the QAT are going to overlook this major issue though as it's way too big of a jump if you were to rank a normal mapset. I think Ayu's diff should be heavily nerfed in density, but I don't know if this will be needed since this is a MBC map. Maybe the QAT should look into this a bit first though before ranking. The maps are beautiful as standalone diffs, but it's a bit uneven as a package.
Normal ------------Hard=Insane <---- Density
Normal ----------Hard----Insane <--- Difficulty
First off you should get rid of some of those green lines in Normal since they don't really do much.
00:23:974 - 00:24:141 - and all similar ones can be removed without problems. The only ones you should leave are the ones you use reverses on like 00:42:641 -
For consistency purposes. I highly suggest mapping the Normal until 01:01:141 - The little bit of break included on Hard/Insane, is more than enough for Normal, or at least in my opinon.
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Widescreen support can be removed as well.
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The combo colors on Ayu's diff are pretty nice. Maybe consider changing Normal/Insane to them? The only thing that bugs me, is that during kiai, the reverse arrow is extremely hard to see on Ayu's diff when the green color shows up.
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So I was looking up some info on this song and it led to this, the original.
http://ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/44468
This means you would add: snowflake to the tags. I think snowflake is the singer, when looking at the rest of her songs. http://ccmixter.org/people/snowflake | http://tunetrack.net/snowflake/pages/about/ Her real name is Emily Richards | Stuff like Winter would also be reasonable since this is a winter themed song. Remix is another fair tag. And of course, Ayu. raja's real name is Ralf Jacobsen
One more thing. This might need double-checking. I believe the artist name is just "raja" according to the website and myspace. I'll leave it up to the QATs to decide this. Just seems like raja was already taken...
Desperate-kun EDIT: Confirmed with ztrot and me. The Artist should be changed to simply "raja"
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Honestly the only thing I noticed was some hitsound inconsistency with your insane. I'm guessing you wanted each diff to have a different feel to it. I'm gonna point out some sounds that would probably suit the song better if they were removed or changed. The stuff I want to leave alone is your asthetics, as much as possible since it gives a unique feel to the map. I personally like it.
I still really heavily believe this diff should be nerfed a lot in Density. I still don't really feel much of a difference between this and insane imo. You could easily squeeze a difficulty between this Hard and Normal.
to be honest, this diff is pretty much perfect. The only thing that feels odd to me is the covered 01:55:307 (2) - and such. This is actually pretty simple to play at 01:57:474 (1,2) - however, and I believe it's due to the finish being the problem, and the whistle being the savior. It gives off the feeling of 1/2 gaps here and I don't really think about the hidden notes under the ends. Maybe add whistles to the end of these? 01:54:807 (1) - 02:00:141 (1) - so there is some hint.
Sorry it's not much, I'm a bit worried about the gap from Normal->Ayu's Hard. Beautiful maps though. I can see why they won
Normal ------------Hard=Insane <---- Density
Normal ----------Hard----Insane <--- Difficulty
First off you should get rid of some of those green lines in Normal since they don't really do much.
00:23:974 - 00:24:141 - and all similar ones can be removed without problems. The only ones you should leave are the ones you use reverses on like 00:42:641 -
For consistency purposes. I highly suggest mapping the Normal until 01:01:141 - The little bit of break included on Hard/Insane, is more than enough for Normal, or at least in my opinon.
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Widescreen support can be removed as well.
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The combo colors on Ayu's diff are pretty nice. Maybe consider changing Normal/Insane to them? The only thing that bugs me, is that during kiai, the reverse arrow is extremely hard to see on Ayu's diff when the green color shows up.
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So I was looking up some info on this song and it led to this, the original.
http://ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/44468
This means you would add: snowflake to the tags. I think snowflake is the singer, when looking at the rest of her songs. http://ccmixter.org/people/snowflake | http://tunetrack.net/snowflake/pages/about/ Her real name is Emily Richards | Stuff like Winter would also be reasonable since this is a winter themed song. Remix is another fair tag. And of course, Ayu. raja's real name is Ralf Jacobsen
One more thing. This might need double-checking. I believe the artist name is just "raja" according to the website and myspace. I'll leave it up to the QATs to decide this. Just seems like raja was already taken...
Desperate-kun EDIT: Confirmed with ztrot and me. The Artist should be changed to simply "raja"
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Honestly the only thing I noticed was some hitsound inconsistency with your insane. I'm guessing you wanted each diff to have a different feel to it. I'm gonna point out some sounds that would probably suit the song better if they were removed or changed. The stuff I want to leave alone is your asthetics, as much as possible since it gives a unique feel to the map. I personally like it.
- 00:32:141 (1) - I feel like the tail shouldn't be so close to (4) Perhaps you could send the tail off to the right so the 1/1 gap actually feels like a 1/1 gap, by not being so cluttered? If that makes sense: http://puu.sh/gZ5C3.jpg
- 00:56:474 - I don't see this whistle used in Ayu's or your Hard diff. Maybe remove it? It sounds a little out of place.
- See the top about mapping the break a little further.
- 01:25:141 (6) - just a whistle is probably good enough here.
- 01:53:141 (4) - whistle on head is missing. There's a soft sampleset on the head here as well. Not sure what your plan for this note is, but it's definitely missing something.
- 01:38:807 - Change volume to 20%
- 01:46:807 - soft finish like Insane?
- 02:05:474 (1) - missing soft addition?
I still really heavily believe this diff should be nerfed a lot in Density. I still don't really feel much of a difference between this and insane imo. You could easily squeeze a difficulty between this Hard and Normal.
- 00:36:641 (6) - Just as an example to the nerfing if it's required. you could easily remove this note as there isn't any sound in the song here. If you must map to this, then it'd work as a slider end I guess.
- 00:58:474 (1,2) - Major issue here. The spacing from every single previous note is roughly the same length as well as the 1/2 gap between 00:58:474 (1,2) - This slowdown is way to unexpected. Personally you should stack it on 00:58:807 (2) - like Insane does so it gives off the 1/2 feeling. Reading by gaps will cause confusion otherweise. Also put the NC on the (2) and move the slow-down point to there.
- 01:04:974 (3) - feels a little forced, since you were using a lot of 1/2 gaps here. Same with 01:07:641 (4) - Honestly it would play and feel much better without these on the field.
to be honest, this diff is pretty much perfect. The only thing that feels odd to me is the covered 01:55:307 (2) - and such. This is actually pretty simple to play at 01:57:474 (1,2) - however, and I believe it's due to the finish being the problem, and the whistle being the savior. It gives off the feeling of 1/2 gaps here and I don't really think about the hidden notes under the ends. Maybe add whistles to the end of these? 01:54:807 (1) - 02:00:141 (1) - so there is some hint.
Sorry it's not much, I'm a bit worried about the gap from Normal->Ayu's Hard. Beautiful maps though. I can see why they won