Thanks for the mod! I'll go eat now and then get going with my modGus wrote:
hey m4m from your queue, kind of a niche map but i did my best and hoLY SO MANY GREEN TICKS HOW LONG DID THIS TAKE too much lul
[Forbidden Fruit]
00:07:994 (4,5) - fix overlap done
00:51:808 (6) - NC I kept the new comboing here somewhat constant 8 or 9 for these same patterns in the music. Also I agree there's strong sound, but more than being the beginning sound of a section, it feels like distorting sound creating pressure in the rhythmical world of the song, that then gets released with 00:53:387 (1)
00:58:518 (5) - stack sliderend with 00:57:926 (3) - done tho now the spacing is little lower than what I would like for the sounds, Oh well can't have everything
01:07:597 (4) - NC done
01:08:584 (9,10,11) - woah talk about a spacing increase, im not sure this is justified at this point in the song, the sounds here arent too much louder.. of course, its playable and does work, though. You are right, but on the other hand, they don't really get that much louder at all. What I interpret here is the feeling in the song, which pretty much goes from 0-100 and very quickly. This is the point where your casual non-metal listener gets teh fuck out. I'm prob gonna address these spacing things in your last comment.
01:18:649 (1) - ctrl g It's intended as it is. I don't have any tools to draw to printscreens but I'll explain how I can. This way, the flow is circular and to the same direction all the time. Also due slider leniency it's relatively smooth to play. If changed, you would have to change the flow direction when going to the second ring. It would also make going forward worse, due same things applied to the next transition.
01:29:702 (1) - perhaps stack with 01:29:307 (6) Thought of doing it that way first while mapping, but ended up with this. Now the sliderend of slider 6 is as if the continuation of the slider1, as you can see from how it blankets the following circle 2. Iirc I used this kind of pattern every time at this point and it's intentional.
01:36:412 (3,4) - im pretty sure they're overlapping, i'd fix the blanket here lol yeah done
01:44:504 (3,4) - consider ctrl + h and resnapping Prob works nicely that way too, but I like this more. With this I change the flow direction but basically you'll still play this with "small circle" for the stacked notes. This way it feels better to play imo and it looks more interesting
01:46:675 (4,1) - I think this should be more distanced, and not overlapping I agree, though I want to overlap. It's kind like leading from more intense section to calmer one, and the sounds are very clingy and all that. Used this kind of pattern every time at this point iirc. Added little distance tho
01:48:648 (5,6) - theres kind of an inconsistency in the map with these patterns, sometimes your blankets are overlaps, sometimes they're very close like right here, and sometimes they're a little bit far, i think you should go through and make more blanket consistency. for example, this blanket is a little farther 01:44:701 (5,1) and these 01:45:885 (2,3) - are much much farther but are the same shape pretty much. You are right, there is probably too much inconsistency, though your examples are intentional. There are a lot of places where the blanketed sliders have only 1/4 distance, that ofc makes the distance lower than with 1/2 distance in time. What also affects it is the section surrounding it and therefore the music and what it sounds like. 01:48:648 (5,6) - I might just change these overall tho. Atm they are there with slightly higher SV and differnt shape than the others to express the emphasis the music has every time at that point. The differences in the music aren't too large tho and that's why I might make changes to these parts. While I love to write essays it seems, you are probably still right that I'm inconsistent with spacing even between the identical sections in music. I might need to look more into that.
02:05:227 (7,8,1) - kind of unclean, i'd stack everything under the sliderend of 7 Imo looks fine the way it is. I need to make the intended triangle perfect tho, but Stacking em all made it look little empty, and I don't remember stacking comparable notes either. This way it also flows little more freely
02:18:647 (1,3) - blanket these That's what I originally intended, and it looks pretty blanketed already. Though the way it is now the blanket is pretty lame anyways lol, I wonder if you meant blanketing it some other way?
02:22:989 (5,6,7) - NC to indicate complicated rhythm change done
02:40:752 (1) - ctrl g ^ somewhere
03:39:566 (2,3,4,1,2,3,4) - more ncs for rhythm There are already enough. Not only is this pattern "familiar" from the last chorus, the triplets are already paired to the same combos as the sliders, which are snapped according to 1/3 as well.
04:14:696 (5,1) - visually unappealing slider, i'd just change it a lil changed it a lil ^^
in general, I think the last kiai section doesnt need to be so spaced, i dunno if its necessarily too intense compared to some other parts of the song, but cool map! wish ya the best of luck. sorry its small i couldnt really find too much I dont think it's too spaced compared to the other ones. The rhythm changes drastically, and while it leads to lower density, the intensity gets higher. What I agree on though is that the whole song might have too high spacing, as you already indicated earlier. That seems to be more like rule than exception nowadays tho lol. Anyways the overall spacing can be lowered later if needed, after getting more opinions on this.
EDIT: lol this looks like I bashed everything as everytime I declined I wrote an essay but when I accepted I wrote like one word >.<