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Old 07-22-2006, 07:46 PM   #4
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h 2/3- Pretty boring for the first half, and then the 24th-note trills would've been much more heavy-suited if they were spread out rather than just drills. Step direction was pretty fun, though.
c 0/3- Yep, it's heavy but with a lot more jumps. And you some how managed to make the runs that were kind of fun less fun. This sucks.
e 4/4- Good background, good banner. Nothing to complain about here.
total 6/10- Heavy was decent, challenge sucked, the art was nice.

Ichirin no hana [Huge Hollow Mix]
h 2/3- Doesn't follow the rhythm, a bit chain-jump heavy, but not too terrible overall.
c 1/3- Ugh, it doesn't follow the rhythm properly, the jumps and hands for the most part are stupid. I give it one point because that slowdown with the quad was really funny.
e 3/4- Banner and bg didn't seem to match, and were kind of on the generic side, but not terrible. The bpm stops and changes were really fun. Good job on those.
total 6/10- Challenge was bad, heavy was good, I liked the way you played with the sync.

IN GAME 8
h 1.5/3- I know this is a keyboard file, but that doesn't mean you should totally disregard step direction. The rhythm was good in general, but the "doublestepping" made the file less fun than it could be.
c 1.5/3- Basically same here.
e 3/4- BG and banner are great, but I have to dock points for it being 201-402 instead of 100.5-201. Accuracy is everything.
total 6/10- Very average.

Maxx Delusion
h 3/3- Pretty good actually, I just wish you were more consistent with your placement of jumps. I'll give it 3 anyway because it's the best I've played so far.
c 1/3- Uhhh wtf did you do to the rhythm??? It was great on heavy but SUCKS here. Not so good.
e 3/4- The banner is weird, doesn't fit. The BG is really cool though, and I like the BPM stuff you did here.
total 7/10- Heavy is great, challenge was kinda bad, the art was overall fine. Not bad.

over there
h 2/3- Crossovers were great at first, then halfway into the fast part they start to suck.
c 3/3- Didn't even try for crossovers, which I guess I probably fine on Oni. I liked this a lot.
e 4/4- I really liked the art.
total 9/10- Quite good. Interesting song choice, as well.

storm
h 3/3- I liked this. The jumps and freezes were basically well done except for a few small parts.
c 3/3- Also really good. Loved the 32nds.
e 1.5/4- The art was fine, the video was fine, but the syncing was bad and bpm changes didn't fit. Sorry, but those are two very integral parts of a stepfile and they failed hard here. edit: actually the slowdown almost fit... but it starts too early.
total 7.5/10- Solid keyboard steps. Bad syncing and improper bpm changes almost kill it.

tetris talespin
h 3/3- good minus the fact that there's more to follow during the main synth, that kind of sets the steps off balance. i'll let it slide here because it's basically fun and it was heavy anyway.
c 2/3- somehow the song managed to have the same problem as heavy, which doesn't really fly on challenge because, well, you should be following everything you can.
e 4/4- good.
total 9/10 Good.

Vaironica
h 3/3- Not bad at all. Good stuff.
c 1.5/3- First of all this is a 13 at best. The 16th run didn't fit. The jumps at the end were stupid. The one thing I really liked was the 12th notes during the fast part. The rest was pretty bad.
e 4/4- Just fine.
total 8.5/10 Heavy wasn't bad at all. Challenge sucked. Art was fine. Nice work.

Video Out C
h 3/3- Great except for early on when you go from following the drums to the main synth. Just makes it kind of janky, but the rest was pretty great so 3/3.
c 3/3- Good, even better than heavy.
e 4/4- Funny. I liked it.
total 10/10- Didn't expect to give a 10, but here I am. Nice work, very nice.

Z3
h 1.5/3- Kinda dumb. Didn't follow the rhythm right some of the time (pretty rarely though), and I didn't like what you did with the slowdown here.
c 2.5/3- Better. Could've done better still though with the material.
e 3/4- A bit too plain.
total 7/10- Eh, decent. Challenge was good, heavy really wasn't.

I hate to be rude, but I was kind of expecting this level of quality. Keyboard is generally a mixed bag for me like this: there are the stepchart creators that I know really well and almost always consistently turn out good stuff, there's the few hidden surprises that I didn't know were out there, and then there's the other 90%. If there was more careful detail to step direction as Video Out C and Tetris Tailspin (heavy anyway), I think I'd probably play keyboard files a lot more often. Still, good job to those that did one.

Last edited by discovolante : 07-23-2006 at 02:12 PM.