Hi! nice mapset, but I think it still has room for improvement~
Gap between Easy and NormalThe Normal difficulty uses a lot of 1/2 rhythm throughout the whole song. It's a fact that the 1/2 usage is very high in Normal, but it is acceptable because it doesn't go too far for a Normal diff due the bpm being very low. However, the Easy diff uses almost exclusively 1/1 rhythm with no variations, and you introduced 1/2 rhythm until 02:14:761 (2) - which is past the half of the map. The difference in playability feels pretty big between your Easy and Normal diffs and I think that can be improved.
[Easy]
Aside from spread, I have a big concern about this difficulty, which I kind of mentioned above. The thing is that in this difficulty you give exclusive use of 1/1 rhythm from 00:00:873 - until 02:14:761 - . The map is pretty much the mapping of the metronome and nothing feels especially represented or emphasized due to the lack of rhythm variation, which also makes it a boring difficulty to play :c
I have some suggestions that can improve the music representation and make the spread better than it is right now:
- 00:01:984 (2) - Make this slider a 1/2 slider with a repetition, then remove the repetition from 00:03:095 (3) - and add a 1/2 slider with a repetition at 00:04:206 - . The result will be this. This suggestion doesn't make the map any harder, but helps to make the map feel more unique and represents the song with more accuracy. Your current patterns could simply be applied to any song of the same bpm and fit, since is just mapped to the metronome and nothing else feels specially mapped for this specific song. The same suggestion applies to 00:05:317 (1,2,3,4) - this part because it is identical.
- 00:10:873 (2) - & 00:15:317 (2) - Make these sliders 1/2 with a repetition.
- 00:19:761 (2) - Make this 1/2 with repeat and then make 00:22:539 (4) - this into a 1/2 slider like this without a repeat (to give more representation to the vocals and add more challenge, plus it is a nice variation for the patterns) (note: using a single 1/2 slider without repeat this way is not too hard for an easy at this bpm). The whole rhythm suggested will look like this. The suggestion applies to 00:23:095 (1,2,3,4) - and the following sections before the first kiai and between the first and second kiais.
- Moving on to kiai section. 00:56:150 - You could add a circle here and then make 00:58:095 (4) - a 1/2 slider without a repeat. The whole suggested rhythm would look like this.
- 01:00:317 (2) - make 1/2 slider and add circle at 01:02:817 - . The rhythm would look like this.
- 01:05:039 - Add circle and make 01:06:984 (4) - this into a 1/2 slider~ rhythm. The suggestions in this kiai also apply to the other two kiais.
[Normal]
- 00:23:095 (1) - Right now this feels like part of just 1/2 rhythm spam. I suggest to remove the repeat and make this a 1/1 slider to represent the extended vocal. This suggestion also applies to 00:27:539 (1) - , 00:36:428 (1) - , 01:25:317 (1) - , 01:29:761 (1) - and 01:38:650 (1) - .
- 02:15:317 (3) - I suggest to delete this slider and leave a circle to represent the pause in the vocals. Then you could continue with a slider at 02:15:873 - . The suggested rhythm would look like this.
- 02:17:539 (3) - The vocal in the middle of the slider is very prevalent and feels weird to leave it there ignored imo. I suggest to delete the slider and add a 1/2 slider at 02:17:817 - to follow it, and it also represents the pause in the vocals just as in the previous suggestion. The suggested rhythm would be this.
I don't agree with the map in its current state, but I'm not vetoing it, which means that I let you call squirrelp to rebubble even if you don't agree with me. Just think what is best for your map.