1. Insane (4.63 stars, 342 notes)

cl8n wrote:

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Insane

As far as object placement goes, I think the most critical features that you're missing here are consistency and structure. You clearly have some intent to mimic the common 2015+ style of flow, but your application of it becomes misleading throughout the map.

1. Sequences like 00:03:472 (3,1,2) are probably too linear to fit thematically with the rest of your map. The map's main focus is on acute angles and predictable leads from slider tails, and then this guy comes up and tries to turn it all around. Don't let him (unless if you want to)!
2. If someone were to ask you, "Why have you placed 00:08:200 (5,6,7) in such a manner?", would you have a good response? You likely can't explain why you've made the mapping decisions here because it lacks structure. There's no cohesive way to explain what's going on here; it's random! With this style of mapping you should generally be thinking about how to guide the player with patterns that match the flow of the music--- that doesn't mean you need triangles everywhere, or copy-pasted slider patterns, but what it does mean is that you can't expect the player to interpret your map like a series of commands and simply hit all of the objects regardless of their relationships.

i dunno what else to put there

Overall, there's just no theme to your placement. It's not consistent, making it seem very disconnected from the song, in the same manner that those 8*+ unranked jump spam maps are. Make sure that larger spacings emphasize something important, and that the travel path from one note to another is intuitive when compared against the notes before it.

Your rhythm choices have a similar issue of consistency, but more importantly they're missing a strong concept of musical priority.

Imagine that we want to write and play a drum cover of this song. We're both not very skilled drummers, I'd imagine... so what we'd have to do is simplify the rhythm so that we are actually capable of playing our own music. That means we're only going to focus on the most prominent instruments and sounds, because that's what the audience will catch onto. Let's say that we can either choose to play a note at 00:54:927 or 00:55:109, because playing both is too difficult for us. Which is more important for the song? Even without extensive knowledge of music you'd probably agree that the latter would be a better choice, since the former is nothing more than a quiet piano stroke.

Rhythm choices in osu! work the same way; after all, you're basically covering a song with the instrument of hitsounds. Currently, you have a slider starting at 00:54:927 and ending at 00:55:109, but it would almost certainly be more intuitive to put a clickable object at 00:55:109 instead (note that "clickable" basically just means either a circle or a slider head). This really goes for the whole map. Make sure that the rhythm of your map expresses the song!

The spinner at 01:26:836 (1) isn't snapped at its end. Just drag the ending so it snaps to the white tick.

Apologies for the shorter length; I must be going to supper now.