Hello I seem to have caught wind of this map.
Let's talk about the kiai rhythm in the topdiff since that's what stood out to me the most.
[Insane]
For reference: you mapped 3/4 rhythm as one of the first things in the map 00:03:698 (1,2,3) - but in the kiai you never used this ever again.
- 00:53:412 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1) - For most of the kiai it seems you will be following vocals which is cool and fine, but I honestly think that you shouldn't ignore the 3/4 rhythm that happens pretty much all over. 00:55:448 - gets ignored despite being part of the vocal, which is kinda not making sense considering you could have done 00:53:412 (1,2,3) - but here there's no vocal on the 2 and you seem to be covering that drum. That drum is also present on 00:55:448 - so I'm confused as to why you didn't decide to map that one especially since it's much stronger than the previous.
- 00:55:555 (2,3,4) - This doesn't follow vocals anymore, this rhythm switch is really awkward when the previous pattern followed the vocals and this one doesn't when the vocals are still clearly here. Vocal on 00:56:198 - is a slider-end which takes away emphasis from clicking, and 00:55:770 - is also covered with a slider end.
- 00:57:270 (2,3,4) - Then this kinda feels strange because your hitsounding and the song both tell me these should both be clickable, but they're not. Instead you put a triple afterwards for.. what reason exactly? If there's any 1/4 here it's on 00:57:805 - and that gets skipped, which would make more sense than 00:57:698 (4,5,6) - wherein the 5 actually doesn't hit anything prominent in the song. 00:58:127 (6) - This one as well being mapped as one slider over two unique sounds is very weird.
- 00:58:555 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,1) - Again here you've switched back to vocals which is fine but then that whole pattern before makes me go ??? because if your main focus is vocals you didn't map the vocals in focus at all for 00:55:127 (1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1) - and that looks like a major rhythmic oversight.
- 01:01:984 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - This just ignores the 3/4 main rhythm of the song entirely which could work if you used triples or something but considering the only triple starts on a red 01:02:627 (4,5,6) - wherein the vocal is also held it doesn't work as well. 01:02:198 (2,3) - Should be a triple as well in order to keep the 3/4 rhythm somewhat in focus but skipped over in favor of simplicity (which I don't really agree with but seems you were going for that anyways)
- 01:03:270 (9,1) - Skipping a lot of what was mapped before as well 00:56:412 (5,6,1) - here 9 was 2 circles but now it's just one slider. Two circles worked better for the distinct vocals imo.
- 01:04:877 - Again skipping a drum that doesn't exist on 01:05:305 (7) - so that again puts question into my head of why did you ignore the drum but overmap a blue tick where there is no drum? 01:05:734 - Same here, also gets skipped.
- 01:05:412 (1,2,3) - Ignores also a lot of the vocals with 01:05:841 (2) - which is two distinct sounds but not mapped as two distinct circles for some reason.
- 01:06:377 - Also here has a sound on it but was skipped and actually sounds like a triple before the stream, so 01:06:270 (3) - could be either a reverse slider/triple to fix this.
- 01:07:984 (3) - This again could be another triple because of the sound on 01:08:091 - or at least a reverse slider so that you merge both rhythms together.
- 01:09:055 (2) - Again not mapping the 3/4, triple/reverse slider could be used. 01:09:162 - I much prefer a triple though since it makes everything clickable.
- 01:10:127 (9) - Again could be two circles etc etc. This stuff just repeats all over the place so let's not make too big a wall.
Essentially Nao pointed out what I was about to when he modded the beginning up till the kiai but here's my take on why I would have popped this if he didn't first.
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I hope you consider that 3/4 is one of the most prominent rhythms in the song yet the kiai ignores it constantly, killing the uniqueness of the song outright. I really don't think it's fit for rank in its current state.
Let's talk about the kiai rhythm in the topdiff since that's what stood out to me the most.
[Insane]
For reference: you mapped 3/4 rhythm as one of the first things in the map 00:03:698 (1,2,3) - but in the kiai you never used this ever again.
- 00:53:412 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1) - For most of the kiai it seems you will be following vocals which is cool and fine, but I honestly think that you shouldn't ignore the 3/4 rhythm that happens pretty much all over. 00:55:448 - gets ignored despite being part of the vocal, which is kinda not making sense considering you could have done 00:53:412 (1,2,3) - but here there's no vocal on the 2 and you seem to be covering that drum. That drum is also present on 00:55:448 - so I'm confused as to why you didn't decide to map that one especially since it's much stronger than the previous.
- 00:55:555 (2,3,4) - This doesn't follow vocals anymore, this rhythm switch is really awkward when the previous pattern followed the vocals and this one doesn't when the vocals are still clearly here. Vocal on 00:56:198 - is a slider-end which takes away emphasis from clicking, and 00:55:770 - is also covered with a slider end.
- 00:57:270 (2,3,4) - Then this kinda feels strange because your hitsounding and the song both tell me these should both be clickable, but they're not. Instead you put a triple afterwards for.. what reason exactly? If there's any 1/4 here it's on 00:57:805 - and that gets skipped, which would make more sense than 00:57:698 (4,5,6) - wherein the 5 actually doesn't hit anything prominent in the song. 00:58:127 (6) - This one as well being mapped as one slider over two unique sounds is very weird.
- 00:58:555 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,1) - Again here you've switched back to vocals which is fine but then that whole pattern before makes me go ??? because if your main focus is vocals you didn't map the vocals in focus at all for 00:55:127 (1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,1) - and that looks like a major rhythmic oversight.
- 01:01:984 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) - This just ignores the 3/4 main rhythm of the song entirely which could work if you used triples or something but considering the only triple starts on a red 01:02:627 (4,5,6) - wherein the vocal is also held it doesn't work as well. 01:02:198 (2,3) - Should be a triple as well in order to keep the 3/4 rhythm somewhat in focus but skipped over in favor of simplicity (which I don't really agree with but seems you were going for that anyways)
- 01:03:270 (9,1) - Skipping a lot of what was mapped before as well 00:56:412 (5,6,1) - here 9 was 2 circles but now it's just one slider. Two circles worked better for the distinct vocals imo.
- 01:04:877 - Again skipping a drum that doesn't exist on 01:05:305 (7) - so that again puts question into my head of why did you ignore the drum but overmap a blue tick where there is no drum? 01:05:734 - Same here, also gets skipped.
- 01:05:412 (1,2,3) - Ignores also a lot of the vocals with 01:05:841 (2) - which is two distinct sounds but not mapped as two distinct circles for some reason.
- 01:06:377 - Also here has a sound on it but was skipped and actually sounds like a triple before the stream, so 01:06:270 (3) - could be either a reverse slider/triple to fix this.
- 01:07:984 (3) - This again could be another triple because of the sound on 01:08:091 - or at least a reverse slider so that you merge both rhythms together.
- 01:09:055 (2) - Again not mapping the 3/4, triple/reverse slider could be used. 01:09:162 - I much prefer a triple though since it makes everything clickable.
- 01:10:127 (9) - Again could be two circles etc etc. This stuff just repeats all over the place so let's not make too big a wall.
Essentially Nao pointed out what I was about to when he modded the beginning up till the kiai but here's my take on why I would have popped this if he didn't first.
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I hope you consider that 3/4 is one of the most prominent rhythms in the song yet the kiai ignores it constantly, killing the uniqueness of the song outright. I really don't think it's fit for rank in its current state.