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neothe0ne · 11-09-2008, 04:46 PM

I finished downloading Part 1. I'll probably add more comments (especially on songs I've also stepped which are in Parts 2-3), but without repeating the reviews of others too much (doublestepping, patterns, etc), I'll add some. Assume all comments are on the highest difficulty level unless otherwise stated.

General complaints:
-All videos: You have Widescreen videos (16:9 ratio) stretchsquashed into 4:3 ratio, which is a big no-no (see pretty much any of your sims from 2007 anime on). Since you're using StepMania 3.9 because of the Popcandy theme, there's not even a way to get proper aspect ratio back during gameplay.
-Steps to silence. (CHU-BURA measure 53,
-Steps to nothing (beginning of After Dark, measure 5 of Chasse which LK also did in his file, most of the 16th triplets in Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi on vocals instead of the drums in the verse, etc.)
-Many steps feel too karaoke, where you follow the vocals too strictly at some points and the bgm too strictly at others. Gekidou stuck out most to me, as it was awkward even though I know the song thoroughly from editing my sim of it over and over.
-Jumps to non-accented vocals and singles on one-time percussion/w.e (lots of songs)
-Bad song title ("ki no me kaze" does not exist, the cover of the single itself says "ko no me kaze". I'm assuming "ki" came from the retarded inaccurate Wikipedia nazis.)

Despite these complaints, I did like your BLUE BIRD better than my original which ended up too overstepped, as well as your Minami-ke Okawari ED, as I had wanted to step it but gave up before I started. I guess it's ironic you released Kokoro no Tsubasa just before I did and I released Days just before you did.

I enjoyed the original FANiMEMIX mostly because I found several songs with decent steps not done by anyone else (properly), such as most of the Gundam SEED songs. This time though, I'm looking at the pack from an entirely different perspective (I wasn't a simfile author myself when I first played FANiMEMIX for example), as I've already stepped 28 songs in this pack (counting COLORS which I'm stalled on making a banner for), 29 if you include "Say cheese!", which has exaggerated some of the issues I have with the steps.

11-09-2008, 04:46 PM	#44
neothe0ne //bemanistyle::[Member] neothe0ne is offline Join Date: Jun 2006 neothe0ne's Collection Posts: 90 Marketplace Rating: 0 Tokens: 78,514.13 Bank: 6,134,821.50 Total Tokens: 6,213,335.63 Donate Tokens	I finished downloading Part 1. I'll probably add more comments (especially on songs I've also stepped which are in Parts 2-3), but without repeating the reviews of others too much (doublestepping, patterns, etc), I'll add some. Assume all comments are on the highest difficulty level unless otherwise stated. General complaints: -All videos: You have Widescreen videos (16:9 ratio) stretchsquashed into 4:3 ratio, which is a big no-no (see pretty much any of your sims from 2007 anime on). Since you're using StepMania 3.9 because of the Popcandy theme, there's not even a way to get proper aspect ratio back during gameplay. -Steps to silence. (CHU-BURA measure 53, -Steps to nothing (beginning of After Dark, measure 5 of Chasse which LK also did in his file, most of the 16th triplets in Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi on vocals instead of the drums in the verse, etc.) -Many steps feel too karaoke, where you follow the vocals too strictly at some points and the bgm too strictly at others. Gekidou stuck out most to me, as it was awkward even though I know the song thoroughly from editing my sim of it over and over. -Jumps to non-accented vocals and singles on one-time percussion/w.e (lots of songs) -Bad song title ("ki no me kaze" does not exist, the cover of the single itself says "ko no me kaze". I'm assuming "ki" came from the retarded inaccurate Wikipedia nazis.) Despite these complaints, I did like your BLUE BIRD better than my original which ended up too overstepped, as well as your Minami-ke Okawari ED, as I had wanted to step it but gave up before I started. I guess it's ironic you released Kokoro no Tsubasa just before I did and I released Days just before you did. I enjoyed the original FANiMEMIX mostly because I found several songs with decent steps not done by anyone else (properly), such as most of the Gundam SEED songs. This time though, I'm looking at the pack from an entirely different perspective (I wasn't a simfile author myself when I first played FANiMEMIX for example), as I've already stepped 28 songs in this pack (counting COLORS which I'm stalled on making a banner for), 29 if you include "Say cheese!", which has exaggerated some of the issues I have with the steps. __________________ Wordpress My Simfiles Profile Last edited by neothe0ne : 11-09-2008 at 11:52 PM.