Here because no one else seems to want to mod this (also can i haz gd plz kappa ecks dee)
[General]
Yeah, sorry for the nazi - I do really like this song and want to get it ranked, and you should just realize I'd only take the hours it took me to do this if I wanted to see it ranked... (Also, let me make an INFINITE diff kappa)
[General]
- From what I understood, I always thought Brain Power on SDVX only had the BPM changes 170 > 171 > 172 > 173 as seen here. If thats the case, then your correct timing points would be 171 @ 67240, 172 @ 71450, and 173 @ 72,801. As far as I can tell, listening on 25% with the metronome, this works just as effectively as your set up, which makes me curious as to how you arrived at your BPM changes the way you have. While I'm not sure from a ranking standpoint if more timepoints = a bad thing or a good thing, this was just something I wanted to point out.
- The initial timepoint for the 170 also may be 1 or 2 ms too early, but my ears may be playing tricks on me for that one.
- 00:07:946 (1) - This slider is on a different sound than the next 3, and therefore should play differently in some way.
- 00:16:240 (8,1) - This jump into the slider has an incredibly awkward flow. It requires you to basically go in the reverse direction but significantly slow down your velocity.
- 00:18:182 (3,4,5,6,7) - The stream here doesn't match the sound in the background. The background wubs appear to be 1/3rd whereas you have it mapped to 1/4th.
- 00:19:240 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4) - This stream has a lot of problems with it in terms of mapping to the sound. The two kicksliders are just there, they have no purpose other than to relieve the fingers (which is fine) and maybe emphasize that weird panning effect in the background, but then you have the 1,2,3,4 section which is mapping stronger vocals. If anything, you should have mapped out the stream on the 9,10 kick slider with larger spacing and then used kick sliders to accentuate the vocals on 1,2,3,4. Alternatively, you could also just put the kicks on the 1,2,3,4 and as well, and keep the 9,10 (just make the SV on 1,2,3,4 higher).
- 00:22:035 - Missing note here. I only complain because you seem to mapping everything.
- 00:24:887 (1) - The song picks up here, why hasn't the Slider Velocity increased?
- 00:46:770 (1,2,3,1,2,3) - I love the concept here, but they really come out of left field and are kind of hard for an Insane diff.
- 00:48:358 - The sounds that you are mapping 00:48:535 (3,4) - to start at 00:48:358.
- 00:50:123 - The beginning of the word cocaine is here, not where you have it.
- 00:57:358 (1) - This can better blanket the previous slider's end.
- 00:57:358 (1,2,3) - What are you even mapping to here? I can't hear any notes on the 2,3, and the end of the slider doesn't even seem to be on anything either.
- 01:07:920 (3,4,5,6) - Why kicksliders? I get that you softened the ends but this just seems overmapped.
- 01:10:983 - Theres a note here you didn't map again. Maybe make 01:10:896 (8) - a kickslider to cover it.
- 01:11:070 (1) - Honestly, if you re-positioned the beginning of the next slider (01:11:419 (1) - ) I think it would be better to make this repeating slider go for all 1/8ths notes its meant to represent.
- 01:12:811 (1) - Why doesn't this end on the bass in the background...?
- 01:14:198 (1,2,3,4) - You used a kickslider to previously emphasize that "bwoosh" sound in the background, yet you didn't do it here. You also randomly changed DS for no apparent reason other than the "bwoosh."
- 01:15:758 - the 1/4ths start here, rather than 01:16:019 (2) - where you begin mapping them.
- 01:19:747 (1,2,3,4) - Same thing I mentioned earlier.
- 01:21:220 (2) - This note doesn't exist.
- 01:22:521 (1,2,3,4) - Same thing as mentioned earlier.
- 01:25:296 (1,2,3,4) - ^
- 01:26:683 (1) - The placement of this slider doesn't even follow your pattern in anyway really... Also, theres notes here, but they aren't as noticeable as some of the others I've pointed out.
- 01:30:845 (1,2,3,4) - Ugh
- 01:33:620 (1,2,3,4) - Consistency is key... and while you're consistent for this everywhere, you're not consistently mapping the sounds the same way...
- 01:36:394 (1) - The "A-A" here is definitely strong enough to be mapped.
- 01:39:169 (1) - Same thing as ^
- As a general note, theres a lot more to talk about here, including awkward slider shapes and jumps that are unnecessarily hard to read due to placement and spacing - but to put it bluntly, I'm doing this because I feel like it and I honestly don't feel like combing through jump and DS like all the other modders will do.
- 00:05:123 (1) - I don't want to be that guy, but better blanket.
- 01:19:053 (5,6) - I don't hear the rhythm you're going for here.
- I'd like to make a note here why I didn't nazi your chorus and verse like I did with NiNo's. (This is moreso for people reading my mod rather than you, Spaghetti.) In NiNo's difficulty, he set out to map pretty much all of the sounds present, whereas Spaghetti mapped it more like you would a Light Insane - you pick some sounds to map but not all of them. Because of this, hes really consistent with the way he maps those sounds and he included all the ones (as far as I can tell) that hes trying to capture. Thats why this mod is much more relaxed than NiNo's.
- 00:00:887 (1) - Cool slider, but a spinner would be better here. Theres no beat that your slider actually starts on, and its honestly just being used for aesthetics, which is unnecessary.
- 00:02:299 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4) - I'll be honest with you - this is just lazy. The way you have the notes split up implies that you're mapping them on the sides to kind of emphasize where the "eh's" are in the song (it starts on the right then jumps to the left, like you have). However, you also have a beat in the background and you immediately start mapping most of the song after this point. Also, theres a beat on every red tick that you haven't mapped...
- As a quick side note, I find this to be very undermapped for an Extra difficulty.
- 00:07:946 (1,2) - What are you even mapping to here? You're missing beats and triplets and you aren't properly emphasizing any sounds in the song.
- 00:09:711 (3) - Skipping a huge sound in the middle of this slider...
- 00:10:417 (4,5) - Once again, skipping a red tick note before this, and what are these even meant to emphasize? I don't get it.
- 00:10:770 (1,2,1,2) - Theres really audible notes between these sliders...
- As another note here, you aren't being consistent with what you're mapping sounds to. Sometimes you'll map a beat with a circle, sometimes with a slider. Its super inconsistent and to be blunt it just seems rushed and half-hearted.
- 00:12:535 (5) - This slider should start on the red tick as you're once again just ignoring two HUGE notes by having this slider there.
- 00:13:593 (1,2) - Listen to all the wonderful notes you aren't mapping between the slider and the circle~
- 00:14:123 (3,4) - ^
- 00:14:476 (5,6) - ^
- 00:14:652 (6,1) - What are these even mapping to?
- 00:15:005 (1,2,3,4,5,6) - This entire section has the same problems I just mentioned.
- 00:16:770 (3) - What is this slider mapped to?
- As another note, why are you pretty much only using jumps? And why are they so large for the difficulty of the song at this time?
- 00:16:417 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) - Same issues apply in this section as well, btw.
- 00:19:240 (1,2) - This should be entirely 1/4ths, once again I don't understand what you're mapping.
- 00:20:652 (1,2) - Why is this slider a 1/3rd? Why are you not mapping the 1/4ths?
- 00:22:064 (1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,4) - These aren't triplets and a quad, theres an actual stream that should be here. If you want to keep this pattern, put a kickslider on the end of each triplet at least.
- 00:23:387 (4,1) - Why is there a stream jump here? It makes no sense musically or according to how you've mapped the rest of this song.
- 00:35:652 - Theres a note here.
- 00:36:182 (1,2,3,4) - You just must hate triplets, because theres quite a few in this section (one during the 1 slider, one between the 2 and 3, and one during the 4 slider).
- At this point I'm going to stop pointing out the individual triplets you're missing, because I guess you're just pretty much following the voice and not caring about the actual wubs and "bwaahs."
- 00:44:564 (10) - You mapped a triplet, but out of all the ones to choose you chose one that isn't actually here...
- 00:45:711 (5,6) - These beats don't exist, what are you mapping to here...?
- 00:47:476 (1) - This is cool, I like how you actually decided to map the entire sound, HOWEVER, there are noticeable 1/3rd notes inside of this slider that I think you should consider mapping.
- 00:52:064 (1,2,1,2) - These actually start 00:51:887 - but its kind of faint so I guess thats why you didn't hear it when mapping it the first time.
- 00:54:182 (2) - You're once again ignoring a strong beat inside your slider. Its kind of like you're mapping a Hard but at the skill level of an Extra.
- 00:54:711 (1) - I like that you're mapping this, but its honestly too faint to focus on for once.
- 00:56:652 (1) - On the red tick before the end of this slider, there are notes that you should be mapping.
- 01:04:055 (3,4) - These should be a slider, following your pattern - I guess you could be accenting the stronger downbeats there though...
- 01:06:780 (3) - This note doesn't exist.
- 01:08:183 (3) - ^
- 01:09:935 (5) - ^
- 01:10:023 (1,2) - This is overmapped, as there aren't any notes on the blue ticks.
- 01:12:115 (1) - The strong beat actually comes on the end of this slider. A wise BN once told me that strong beats should be clickable. Therefore, you should extend this slider (01:11:941 (3) - ) by a tick, start another slider on 01:12:202 and have it end where this one (01:12:289 (2) - ) currently ends. So you should have a series of 3/4th sliders.
- 01:14:198 (1) - Weird place to ignore the O's and A's again, because you mapped the fainter beats at the beginning of this chorus.
- 01:19:747 (1) - ^
- 01:21:828 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - Why the DS change here?
- 01:25:296 (1) - ^
- 01:30:845 (1) - ^
- 01:33:620 (1) - ^
- 01:36:394 (1) - ^
- 01:38:475 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - Why the DS change?
- 01:41:943 (1) - ^
- 01:42:290 (1,2,1,2,1,2) - Theres now strong beats on the blue ticks as well that you're ignroing. While this rhythm was fine in previous sections it becomes a bit awkward here.
- 01:44:024 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - Why the DS change?
- Overall theres really weird rhythm mapping going on here and I don't understand your DS changes in the chorus as they're a bit sporadic.
- Similarly to NiNo's, I didn't feel like mapping the actual DS changes and jumps and flow of sliders and such because other people will be doing that for you when Jacob actually gets moderators in here.
- Final note, this would be better to be nerfed down to an EXHAUST rather than being an INFINITE as the way its mapped now is much more suited for an Insane rather than an Extra.
- I'll do this one later after Raza remaps the stuff hes been wanting to remap. (The balls in your court mang.)
- 00:33:358 (1,2) - Change this to a slider to better mimic the sound of the word Lover.
- I looked through this one much more quickly than the rest, I'll give it a more thorough mod when I review Raza's updated diff.
Yeah, sorry for the nazi - I do really like this song and want to get it ranked, and you should just realize I'd only take the hours it took me to do this if I wanted to see it ranked... (Also, let me make an INFINITE diff kappa)