For more personal elaboration:
When I compare Kroytz' and Monstrata's respectivepaths of least roads of resistance, I just see generic mapping taken to its logical extremes.
The song is hardly inspiring of unique and interesting jump styles, and the streams on both follow very similar roll styles. There's only so many creative liberties you can make with this track if you want to keep continuously using "the most natural" patterns and flow. Selecting similar, or even the same, representation isn't plagiarism any more than it is to paraphrase wikipedia in your book report.
It's more arguable that they're both just extremely generic maps, and generic maps are going to look alike and play alike because they both take cues from the same, effective mapping style. Which any monkey can learn given enough time, it's just boring as hell once you get used to it, to the point where even Monstrata starts to take refuge in retarded self-referential meme gimmicks to entertain himself.
EDIT: thanks to that handy-dandy youtube video directly comparing the two, i was able to come to a good conclusion
i think kroytz did better
When I compare Kroytz' and Monstrata's respective
The song is hardly inspiring of unique and interesting jump styles, and the streams on both follow very similar roll styles. There's only so many creative liberties you can make with this track if you want to keep continuously using "the most natural" patterns and flow. Selecting similar, or even the same, representation isn't plagiarism any more than it is to paraphrase wikipedia in your book report.
It's more arguable that they're both just extremely generic maps, and generic maps are going to look alike and play alike because they both take cues from the same, effective mapping style. Which any monkey can learn given enough time, it's just boring as hell once you get used to it, to the point where even Monstrata starts to take refuge in retarded self-referential meme gimmicks to entertain himself.
EDIT: thanks to that handy-dandy youtube video directly comparing the two, i was able to come to a good conclusion
i think kroytz did better