This beatmap was submitted using in-game submission on Sonntag, 4. September 2011 at 03:10:48

Artist: Meg & Dia
Title: Are There Giants Too, in the Dance?
Tags: meg and dia here, here and here here and here
BPM: 120
Filesize: 4824kb
Play Time: 03:20
Difficulties Available:

1. Crazy! (4,99 stars, 541 notes)
2. Easy (1,95 stars, 209 notes)
3. Hard (4,49 stars, 305 notes)
4. Insane (4,9 stars, 425 notes)
5. Normal (3,52 stars, 270 notes)

Download: Meg & Dia - Are There Giants Too, in the Dance?
Information: Scores/Beatmap Listing
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Ha ha, who ever thought we'd fall so far?!

Alternative Background:

Copyright 2011 SapphireGhost

Remember when you mapped Meg & Dia and you uploaded it.
And I was like "NO WAY."
And then you fixed the kiai at the end of the map.
That was great.

Also a Portal reference was just what came to mind at the time, I don't understand how it really has anything to do with this song or map. Actually, it doesn't. Just know that I like this a lot and you made me smile so I think you should get a big big hug. And stuff. God, when I don't eat enough my posts don't make any sense at all.

01:22:250 (1,2,3,4) - For some reason, this in particular convinces me you are amazing.

There is a reason for this post, but I'll tell you when it's not 3 AM.

GET RANKED PLEASE

[General]
- The mp3 should be okay because of blah blah and yeah.
- You could probably remove some of the shorter breaks possibly maybe.

[Normal]
03:20:125 (7) - Slightly off-center, the world will end.

[Hard]
01:22:125 (1,2) - This ended up being the only 1/4 note in the map so it felt a bit out of place and might catch people off guard and whatnot.

[Insane]
01:45:125 (3) - This note goes a tiny bit off-screen. It's not particularly traumatizing but you could easily fix it.

There were a couple of other overlap things I could nazi but I decided not to. Yai!

Mod because someone requested that I take a look see here do

General
 Hey, that mp3 has a variable bitrate that averages at 233, re-encode your mp3 to 128-192 kthx http://puu.sh/4DtP
A lot of stuff touches the score and hp bar but who cares

Easy
Looking alright here

Normal
Looking alright here

Hard
OD -1
AR +1
01:23:000 (6) - This sudden 1/4 is pretty unpredictable and out of place

Insane
00:02:375 (1) - For this being the first note, its approach circle is very hard to see since it's wedged in the corner like that.
03:16:875 (4,5,6) - Tidy this part up, its spacing is making the stream look and play worse right now http://puu.sh/4DwA

Crazy!
Heeheehee this is interesting

Set feels a bit less polished than your other works, but it's an alright set regardless.

So here's a story that will make you cry, sing,

This is Ellie Goulding, you know

General:
- Once again, combo colours 1 and 2 are incredibly close. Silly Larto.
- "ENIII" prepare for unfunny and unhelpful comments. And not just from me this time OHOHOHO

Crazy1:
- One could argue that non-overlapping 1/4s in the first chorus followed by stacked 1/4s in the second chorus is a bit strange, assuming it should increase in difficulty as the beatmap progresses. Or something. Owl alert.
- That solo is amazing

Insane:
01:54:125 (5,6) - Was this asymmetrical unstacking tomfoolery intentional? Either way it doesn't look very good and comes close to the HP bar. What?
02:12:125 (1) - Lovely as this is it isn't as symmetrical as the other difficulties OH MY GAH

Hard:
- I haven't posted this yet so I guess I have to ok


Normal:
- lol lazier easier difficulty. Nice anyway, of course.
03:16:125 (1,1) - I think these would look much better if they were actually symmetrical, personally. Baby. You'd have to rotate/adjust them slightly though, of course.

Easy
01:21:125 (2) - You could move this up and left a grid each, for more prettiness and less overlappiness.
- I'll make up for this brief mod in some way or another awesome beatmap star

Here's what I thinI'S NAT FUNNY ANYMO' TRY DIFFERENT JOKES

HA HA I knew this was possible.

[Easy]
1.92 easy lol that's new.

01:22:125 (1) - Could you make this nicer? No? Ok.. yeah I didn't think it was needed either...

Well damn, I can't find anything...
[Normal]
00:12:125 (1) - I thought this would mirror (1) of last combo, but it didn't. Yeah ok.
02:10:125 (1) - This definitely needs to blanket (4) better.

I will gradually nazi more.
[Hard]
00:26:625 (1) - mariaoh mariano

Ok maybe not so gradual.
[Insane]
Grr perfection.

Oh, and I look forward to the win-slider you include in each diff when I begin to mod it.
[CrAzY!]
You'd think that the harder it gets the easier to mod.

BUT NO. Oh Sapphy bubble how wonderful.

> <hi mod time!
just suggestions
I love Larto's map :3

[Easy & normal]
the easier diffs would better not have DS problems right?
aimod finds some problems
if you want you can fix them.

[Insane]
01:56:375(1)-add whis?
01:57:375(3)-^

[Crazy!]
01:41:875(4)-add whis?
01:48:375(1)-^
01:49:375(4)-^
02:36:250(3)-add whis on silder's body?

Nice mapset, but as somebody had said already, not as polished as some of your other maps. I've also pointed out already that your sliders could be prettier. I won't go through and mod all five bloody difficulties slider by slider, so please accept these imaginary spankings instead.

Mod edit to come soonish, I'd say. Even so, have my one remaining star.

Do you just have some erotic fetish for Meg & Dia or something?

CDFA wrote:

Do you just have some erotic fetish for Meg & Dia or something?

That's a question every man has to ask himself one day.

This is a bit of a picky mod post, but I really don't like the placement of new combos. This does make a difference.

[General]

Add some tags!

Seems fine. Yeah, ugly sliders. For the most part, I still don't care, but I'll point out the odd ugly (non) blanket(s) and overlap(s) which bother me.

Following our short discussion about new combo placement: While the general rule of thumb could be "New combo at the start of the bar [NOT A "STANZA," PEPPY]," feel where the stress of a melodic phrase is. Lyrical phrases tend to some sort of lead-in; for example, "Are there gi-ants tooooooo..." The italics mark where the rhythmic stress is, ergo where a new combo would feel best. The more you know---------*

[Easy]

VERSE 1

00:04:125 (4) New combo.
00:06:125 (1) Remove new combo.
00:08:125 (3) New combo.
00:10:625 (1) Remove new combo.
00:14:625 (1) Remove new combo.
00:20:125 (4) New combo.
00:22:125 (1) Remove new combo.
00:26:125 (6) New combo.
00:26:625 (1) Remove new combo.
00:30:625 (1) Remove new combo.

CHORUS 1

00:36:125 (4) New combo.

01:02:875 (3) I'm sorry, but this is a little bit anal of me. On my first playthrough, I'd approached this diff in retard mode to try to play it like a newbie would. The slight shift in spacing had thrown me off. How about making this or (2) a curved slider, so that this can have consistent spacing without creating ugly overlaps?

VERSE 2

01:10:125 (2) New combo.
01:10:625 (1) Remove new combo.
01:12:125 (4) New combo.

CHORUS 2

01:54:875 (3) Same point as 01:02:875.

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETAR SOLO

02:38:125 (3) New combo. Oh, come on. You were doing so well with the combo placements here.

02:39:625 (2) New combo. New combo on the next slider. May I ask that you try to smooth these two bass clef-shaped things a little bit? They're "epic" feature sliders. At least they line up with each other now.

If you don't mind, then I'm going to leave the combo placements unspoken for for the other difficulties, as my points occur in more or less the same places, in regards to new combo/remove new combo. You don't want most of this mod post to be a page or two of "New combo. Remove new combo" and I don't want to type it.


[Normal]

CHORUS 1

01:04:125 (1,2) Not a fan of how these overlap. I'd be more forgiving, but they're not symmetrical. Not at all. This is Shiirn-tier overlapping, my dear.

01:20:125 (2,3) Lovely concept; ugly execution. Please try to round these sickles off.

WEEO WEEO WAAAAH etc.

02:12:125 (1) So these are this mapset's gimmick. Very well. At least they're constructed properly.

[Hard]

Just combo issues.

[Insane]

VERSE 1

00:28:125-break: I'm not such a fan of how 1/4s are spaced here. Stack notes at the starts (and possibly ends) of sliders. You do this in parts of this section and parts of the guitar solo et cetera. You might as well be consistent, while removing these awkward spacings.

Please don't do this with sliders which occur right after other sliders, because stacked sliders just feels weird.

[Crazy!]

I find some parts of this to be a bit unsettling, but I can't be more specific than that I won't be. It is a post-Insane map. Just new combo stuff here again.

Crazy!:

02:35:125 (7,8,9,1,2,3) - (9) doesn't stack properly with (1). It looks horribly in-game because (1,2,3) start a new stack. Just check it out for yourself :P

Anyways, have your bloody star. Goddamn you SG

I honestly could not find anything wrong on this set.

Its larto flawless.

Star

Okay. Nazi'd the spacing a bit in Crazy!, reversed a misreversed slider in Easy, argued about the tags, and did some maths to make Larto fix a slider although he refused.

I'm fine with the map as it is.
If you kudosu this post I will eat you.

EDIT: rebubbled after a capitalization fix... how could I miss it D:

After fixing useless green lines and stupid new combo bug
It`s time to rank the awesome mapset
enjoy the pretty sliders and nice flow in all diffs XD

Congrats. Now SG is gonna bug me to play this too :3

I LOVE THIS
You KNOW that that was necessary.

congratz!
Great Map!

Thank you all! Seeing people like my maps always makes me happy <3

Oh my goodness, So hard in CBT with these long sliders.

Oh look at this, finally I come to Larto's post in my queue and the map is ranked!

Well that's fine, and congratulations. If you need a mod one something else, just throw me a forum PM and I'll take a look at that instead.