sukiNathan wrote:
cool ideas
Thanks!
DrVoorhees wrote:
Oh god I love this.
Thanks!
Frim4503 wrote:
looking forward to see this complete
i think this will be a great map
good luck monstrata
*shoot
Appreciate it!
sahuang wrote:
WoW
Would be great if this can be ranked later
Yea hopefully soon
Dashie wrote:
monstrata i love you for this <3
Hehe ;3
Desperate-kun wrote:
This concept is pretty great, best of luck with this!
Thanks for the support Desp!
RoseusJaeger wrote:
This is amazing
Glad you enjoyed it!
Kibbleru wrote:
cool concept
are these diff names okay though?
Looks like we gotta change the diff names though~
Xilver wrote:
sukiNathan wrote:
cool ideas
Akashi diff espeically is a really fitting/cool concept, good job c:
Glad you liked it! Akashi and Kuroko were my two favourite diffs to map
. I think they were the most successful too haha
VINXIS wrote:
dam ths is gud
thnaks!
Owens wrote:
Man you have so much imagination ! That's incredible, best mapper. Good luck ranking this !
Btw, maybe you can rename diffs for, Aomine's Speed, Midorima's aim etc.. just an idea
Thanks! And yea, looks like i'll have to rename diffs a bit.
Yuii- wrote:
That symmetrical map is almost perfect. It was a very well executed style. Reminds me of some guy you know :^)
Looking forward to see what will be the final version of the extras!
Hehe thanks yuii ;3
-Tatsuo wrote:
that's a very good map imo
good luck on ranking this
btw it would be cool if somewhere would be written what style the maps are, it's kinda obvious but i think it would be cool
Thanks!! Yea i included them now~
F1r3tar wrote:
This is one of the few tv-size anime maps I actually like.
I'm honored
Pata-Mon wrote:
great mapset
Thanks~
-Yuni wrote:
this map is masterpiece wow you got my respect with this one, love the song as well.
>//< tyty
384059043 wrote:
Excellent! Where did you get the inspiration from lol
Heh, I guess the song + im a big fan of the anime/manga
smau5 wrote:
i never had so much fun playing a map! really cool, i hope it gets ranked.
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Brodogs wrote:
Just wanted to say this map is awesome.
Just wanted to say thanks!
Pata-Mon wrote:
I love this set
ganbare mons
tyty!!
DONJGER wrote:
I really like Kuroko's difficult even if it was hard to read. The gimmick of the map was very fun and interesting to play and i believe ar8 helps this. Just my two cents.
Thanks for the support ;3
Shiirn wrote:
The fact of the matter is, Monstrata, you're arguing for sensible points that you don't actually follow yourself. It's perfectly fine to carry a concept into a map that you feel applies well to the music and enhances the track. There are hundreds of maps that do this, the most simple of which are those with "slightly weird" difficulty settings. Hell, I've done it myself many times. There's nothing wrong with this and it's even a good thing to do.
But when you bring in several different gimmicks in several different difficulties that are completely unrelated, it becomes pretty obvious you're not actually relating them to the music itself. You're not "Showing different interpretations of the music", you're shoehorning in gimmicks without a single iota of respect or care for the music itself. These difficulties could be placed on any other "normal" song (intro, startup, buildup, drop, breakdown, outro format) and fit just as well (that is, poorly).
If you had one of these difficulties you could probably make the argument that you're just "having a special interpretation", but when you have seven completely different ones, it's pretty clear you're just enjoying throwing out some unrelated and irrelevant gimmicks. I just wish you'd be willing to actually talk it out instead of pulling out tissue-thin reasoning and doing your traditional "Mention something that's obviously right but when you actually relate it to the discussion at hand, it turns out it's entirely irrelevant" counter-modding.
This isn't unrankable, as there's never really been a rule against "blatant creativity", but it's kind of disappointing. I'd even be a fan if it was on something that wasn't a boring, generic as hell TV Size. But it's such a damn waste of concepts on music that doesn't even fit it. I was actually a fan of your concept behind Alien, and to an extent, quaver had a decent idea with poor, ignorant execution. But throwing all this stuff onto a random OP is beneath you, and the concepts are so irrelevant to the music (screw your anime-reference reasoning, srsly) it's saddening.
If you think concepts have to be tied only to music, then you are severely limiting yourself creatively. When we listen to music, we can draw from much more than just its musical context. We can consider for example, the lyrics, and their ability to provoke thought and ideas. We consider the contexts in which music is used. A song by itself may just be depressing, or yearnful, but when paired with a heartbreaking anime scene, it can move us to tears just by hearing the song. A song can make us nostalgic, perhaps it's an old song. The melody itself may not seem nostalgic, but when you consider the context of time, suddenly a song you heard as a kid growing up, becomes more poignant. The song may be drawn from a depressing anime, or a hopeful one. It may be drawn from a singer battling cancer, it may be a singer who is submitting to that cancer. BOOM BOOM SATELLITE's song "Lay your hands on me" was especially impactful to me in that sense, because I understood the context in which it was written. I hadn't even watched the anime, and already I had formed an emotional and empathetic connection to the song that was motivated by more than simply the song's melody and track.
The concepts found in this map are woven around the theme of anime-referencing, which you seem to just toss out. That's unfortunate. This is not any random OP, this OP is very important to the anime. The characters are all central to the anime too, and each gimmick accurate reflects the personalities, and strengths of each character. Unfortunately it's you that has the tissue-thin reasoning that gimmicks can only be influenced by music. Thanks for your concerns, but since you aren't willing to acknowledge anime-referencing, we won't be able to reach a consensus as that is the core of this entire mapset. Simply put, we don't agree on a fundamental level. I hope you'll consider deeper contexts, themes, motifs etc... in your future mapping. I was honestly looking forward to more creative and interesting things from you.