Hi. Just passing by.
I saw this song beatmapped, and well, it's one of my favorite openings in One Piece, so I said let's check it out!
...I was a bit disappointed though.
The beatmap structure and the patterns are pretty nice, built in a very clean way, and it's nice to play. But, as a song I like, I think the beatmap is dull, more than anything... it didn't satisfy me. The beatmap is boring, and pretty easy too - FC'd Insane on the first try, and that's too much coming from me.
I think the main problem is that the beatmap doesn't diverge much into the lyrics. Follow the lyrics more closely! To make the map unique to the song, you'd usually map to the most unique element in the song, which is in most cases the lyrics! It makes more sense than mapping to the background beat all the time.
Since the map doesn't follow the lyrics, as a result you use a lot of 1/2 beats:
It's understandable, since 1/4 would be way too much, but... this is pretty boring, too.
Hitsounds don't help either - it's mostly claps on every second white tick. I understand using hitsounds isn't an easy task, since you can go wrong very easily, but they're also a very important element to the map.
Another useful tip: don't resort to triples to increase the difficulty! (I'd say they actually make things easier in this case )
Triples can sometimes, although very rarely, make sense - but these triples don't follow anything in the song! Insane difficulties usually get their difficulty thanks to jumps or streams, depending on the song - in this case, I'd use jumps more than anything, since streams would be overmapping it. But, above anything else, use jumps or streams wisely!
I have an old WiP of this song, since I just like to map songs for fun. Here it is, if you want to take a look at it: http://puu.sh/pN3K
Perhaps you can see all that stuff I meant taking a look at it. For example, my map follows the lyrics much more closely:
Well, I didn't do a complete mod, but the beatmap in this state... I wouldn't feel comfortable ranking it. As a song I like, I would have been happy to be the one to rank it, but I changed my mind after giving it a quick testplay. I'm not going to burst the bubble either though.
Oh and by the way, nice spoilers on the first post >.> (I wasn't spoiled, I'm watching the new episodes weekly, but other people must have been spoiled...)
I saw this song beatmapped, and well, it's one of my favorite openings in One Piece, so I said let's check it out!
...I was a bit disappointed though.
The beatmap structure and the patterns are pretty nice, built in a very clean way, and it's nice to play. But, as a song I like, I think the beatmap is dull, more than anything... it didn't satisfy me. The beatmap is boring, and pretty easy too - FC'd Insane on the first try, and that's too much coming from me.
I think the main problem is that the beatmap doesn't diverge much into the lyrics. Follow the lyrics more closely! To make the map unique to the song, you'd usually map to the most unique element in the song, which is in most cases the lyrics! It makes more sense than mapping to the background beat all the time.
Since the map doesn't follow the lyrics, as a result you use a lot of 1/2 beats:
It's understandable, since 1/4 would be way too much, but... this is pretty boring, too.
Hitsounds don't help either - it's mostly claps on every second white tick. I understand using hitsounds isn't an easy task, since you can go wrong very easily, but they're also a very important element to the map.
Another useful tip: don't resort to triples to increase the difficulty! (I'd say they actually make things easier in this case )
Triples can sometimes, although very rarely, make sense - but these triples don't follow anything in the song! Insane difficulties usually get their difficulty thanks to jumps or streams, depending on the song - in this case, I'd use jumps more than anything, since streams would be overmapping it. But, above anything else, use jumps or streams wisely!
I have an old WiP of this song, since I just like to map songs for fun. Here it is, if you want to take a look at it: http://puu.sh/pN3K
Perhaps you can see all that stuff I meant taking a look at it. For example, my map follows the lyrics much more closely:
Well, I didn't do a complete mod, but the beatmap in this state... I wouldn't feel comfortable ranking it. As a song I like, I would have been happy to be the one to rank it, but I changed my mind after giving it a quick testplay. I'm not going to burst the bubble either though.
Oh and by the way, nice spoilers on the first post >.> (I wasn't spoiled, I'm watching the new episodes weekly, but other people must have been spoiled...)