1. Pyrotechnics (5.1 stars, 1495 notes)

RLC wrote:

gh

bbj0920 wrote:

420 blazeit

jonathanlfj wrote:

#2
no but seriously who the hell is xlni

Loctav probably wrote:

No log = no kudosu

Cherry Blossom wrote:

I know this can be manually changed by the QAT, but why these tags (let's do it now) ? ;w;

Shiirn wrote:

you'd realize I'm not that bad a guy.

Spaghetti wrote:

yet another case of double standards xd

Spaghetti wrote:

yet another case of double standards xd

1. I noticed that you are using doubles very often in this diff. Indeed most of times they are very fitting and played well, but there were a few places where doubles were very forced and were not mapped to the music.
   In the beginning we had these skipped notes: 01:05:145 - 01:06:626 - 01:16:997 - 01:18:478 -
   These notes are clearly very loud and must not be skipped. Notes in these timestamps include both synth and drum snare sounds, so I don't see a single reason why would you prefer to skip those and map only the surrounding doubles. More than that, 01:05:238 - this note, for example, only has a bass sound which is barely audible when listening to the song at full speed. I have a feeling that these doubles were mapped only for the sake of symmetrical patterns without regards to actual music sounding.
   However, there were similar music patterns in another part, which were mapped in a much better way:
   00:44:404 (2) - 00:50:330 (6) -
   Here the synth note is mapped and doubles are not forced where they don't belong to. That's a far better option.
2. That was one issue, but doubles are misused in some other places too.
   This, for example: 02:21:997 (1,2,3,4,5) - 04:38:293 (1,2,3,4,5) -
   This pattern doesn't fit any pattern in the music, I listened to it a few times and I still don't know what it follows. It just uses the previous rhythm pattern, but it doesn't fit the song at all. The music actually suggests this rhythm instead: http://i.imgur.com/k8WaD9Z.png
   This part, I think, is the most important mistake in the whole map and I'd consider this one even unrankable, since it doesn't represent the music in any way.
   Edit: So after like 30 minutes of listening to it, after having to disable effects volume, I could notice the background wub wub which these notes compliment. However, the foreground melody synth sounds like a much better thing to follow, really. See my screenshot, that's a change I'd love you to make.
3. 02:51:256 - 02:52:738 - 02:54:219 -
   Here the doubles patterns are getting misused again. Notes that I linked above all have a strong white tick bass sound which doesn't feel good to be skipped.
   These timestamps should contain a circle or something.
   02:57:089 (3,4,5) - 02:58:571 (3,4,5) - However, here the same music pattern is mapped in a much better way.
4. Another question I couldn't find answer to was this:
   04:30:608 (4) - 04:31:441 (3) - I don't know what made you use 1/8 here. There's nothing in the music that suggests 1/8 sounds. It's just plain 1/4. Probably, you wanted to make it look more hard or intense by doing that?
   04:36:719 (4) - This 1/8 was far better, it was placed here for a reason, however.
   Addition by Charles: 04:30:839 - this is actually the 1/8 sound in the music, not the slider before it.