[hamm]

-Hamm's PR-
A New Ray of Light
First Impression: Wasn't sure how or if the song was related to Sonic the Hedgehog, but either way, brownie points from me for that.
Steps: Opening was great, in the early middle there were a lot of unnecessary hands. Though I did enjoy the 16th runs that went with the music, In the middle there were some 8th runs with mines and doublestepping, which seemed to flow badly. But, overall I think it was fun. 5/6
Hamm points: Losing points from me for unnecessary hands and lack of flow in the middle so 2/4
Total: 7/10

A Voice Spoke to Me
First impression: An overdone Bloodrush.
Steps: I found them to be unoriginal and virtually a carbon copy of ITG's Bloodrush. Wasn't a fan of the backwards hands in the middle or the triple tap hands at the end. 3/6
Hamm points: Slightly offsync, and the Bloodrush thing keeps getting to me. 1/4
Total: 4/10

Asteroid
First impression: Hm this person knows how to work with different rhythms.
Steps: The beginning was great although I couldn't quite hear what some of the gallops went to. The end seemed a little underworked as it was a bunch of two arrow runs (like Lemmings on the Run) Overall, fun to play. 4/6
Hamm points: Yeah, this was good except for the Lemming stuff 3/4
Total: 7/10

Bad Boy (AvM Remix)
First impression: Cheesey song, but who am I to judge?
Steps: Excellent use of mines and hands, odd rhythms, although technically done right seemed awkwards to me 5/6
Hamm points: Slightly offsync, not much though. No other complaints 4/4
Total: 9/10

Be Princess
First impression: Most annoying song I've encountered so far.
Steps: These were boring, seemed like the Boogie Down of the ITG division. Good use of mines though 4/6
Hamm points: Boring, and annoying. 2/4
Total: 6/10

Breathe
First impression: Not a fan of the song.
Steps: Freakin' awesome. I have no idea who made this chart, but I could not find any flaws with it. It had nice rhythms, steps, the whole deal. But... can't say I liked the up arrow freeze thing, aside from that, I love it. 5/6
Hamm points: Simply fantastic. 4/4
Total: 9/10

Cheap Trick Kinda Girl
First impression: Wow vids.
Steps: The rhythms were done perfectly, but the steps started lacking flow about 200 steps in, and with mines that's a killer. Really disliked the hands. Still good though 4/6
Hamm points: Whenever they said "Cheap Trick Kinda Girl," the BG video showed it, and it had lyrics anyways. And I require flow. 2/4
Total: 6/10

Days Dreamer
First impression: LOL WTF...
Steps: Beginning starts off with perfect rhythm, but throws in some unnecessary freeze arrows. Got boring near the end when it was all just an 8th note run. 3/6
Hamm points: This was quite possibly the creepiest song so far. Onsync, and kinda weird, but I seriously hate those hands that are directly at the end of a freeze arrow. 2/4
Total: 5/10

Devastation
First impression: Hay, I've met this guy before.
Steps: Interesting use of hands in the beginning. Less great at the end. I noticed the slower parts were a bit offsync, while the faster ones seemed all on. Don't quite understand why. But I thought it was an overall good file. 5/6
Hamm points: Sync. 3/4
Total: 8/10

Don't Cha
First impression: No, I don't
Steps: The opening was rhythmically good (except some random burst), but at the chorus it began to remind me of a slighly harder Lemmings on the Run. Dividing it into it's three parts (gallop step step, lemming run, and 8th/16th gallop) each part got individually repetative 3/6
Hamm points: This song... repetativeness. 2/4
Total: 5/10

Emerald Sword
First impression: Curious how to make it both hard and paddable
Steps: The runs kinda terminated at random points, becoming 8th runs which confused me. And 16th runs at 180 for that long is unheard of except for by Summer -Speedy Mix- 3/6
Hamm points: Video was great, steps were only kinda great 3/4
Total: 6/10

Endless Journy
First impression: Heh.. BG... "Endless" it's classic.
Steps: Was going to mention how they ignored a better rhythm, but it picked up after the first 15 seconds. Couldn't hear where the 24th's come in though. Quite the enjoyable file.5/6
Hamm points: bad gap 3/4
Total: 8/10

Graduation
First impression: mmm... Islandy
Steps: Began good, but became repetative. Really went downhill with the hands, overused. 3/6
Hamm points: hands at the end of a freeze arrow make me cry 2/4
Total: 5/10

Have You Ever Been Mellow?
First impression: absolutely the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in my life
Steps: Seemed a bit too DDR for ITG. Everything was a straightforward 8th run, with some deviation at the end. Boring. 3/6
Hamm points: Brownie points for being strange and disturbing 3/4
Total: 6/10

I Wanna Talk About Me
First impression: Bold for picking country.
Steps: Large lack of flow in the 16th run part. Offsync, but maybe due to natural BPM changes due to it being performed by a human. 4/6
Hamm points: Points for boldness, but it does that hand thing I hate (mentioned above) 3/4
Total: 6/10

Identity
First impression: The BPM Demons have my brain!
Steps: Hard, nice. Disliked the speed ups though. Otherwise I liked it. 5/6
Hamm points: Song was a pain in the butt sightread 2/4
Total: 7/10

Inner Universe
First impression: Well, I hope the steps don't go to the quiet background noises..
Steps: Almost total lack of flow, doublesteps galore. The quantization? ("Note" noteskin, brown/orange and green) Not fun at all 2/6
Hamm points: background noises were what the steps were to, very little thought seemingly put in. 1/4
Total: 3/10

Jump
First impression: Lol, my file.
Steps: Noticing now, that comparatively, my steps are practically the easiest. A little gimmicky at that. considering I can't give myself a fair judgement, I'll go with 5/6
Hamm points: My file, trying for least bias 3/4
Total: 8/10

Kiss Me
First impression: Maybe I'm not the easiest file
Steps: Some parts seemed awkward, even though they did in fact go with the music perfectly. Namely where the arrow are all yellow. I liked it a lot though 5/6
Hamm points: Movie a little distracting. 3/4
Total: 8/10

Mario Takes a Walk
First impression: Synced a beat and a half early?
Steps: Yeah, since it's synced really horridly it seems like the notes go to nothing. Too bad, seems like a good file if it were correct 1/6
Hamm points: My personal opinion, after syncing it again myself 3/4
Total: 4/10

Multiball
First impression: Hope it's good, It's MS.
Steps: During the beginning some of the 12ths aren't to anything, then there's the unnecessary BPM doubling complimented by doublestepping in the stream. Didn't like it at all 2/6
Hamm points: BG and Banner professional 2/4
Total: 4/10

Namida Girl
First impression: Catchy, I was expecting emo. (Namida means tears)
Steps: Quite good use of freezes. The run at the end seemed like it was just thrown in to make the file hard. 4/6
Hamm points: Bad gap, and hands at the end of freezes 2/4
Total: 6/10

Satellite
First impression: This song made me sad
Steps: The first half was a lot of straightforward steps on the 8th notes, which I didn't like. The creamy center contained freeze arrows that neither made the steps harder nor complimented the song, but the end was well done. 4/6
Hamm points: Didn't really like it, it was boring. 2/4
Total: 6/10

Speedy Cat
First impression: Red XIII
Steps: Uhhh wtf, incredibly difficult hands, and odd use of rolls. Steps could have complemented the music much better 3/6
Hamm points: Points for Esperanza-riginality 3/4
Total: 6/10

Startin'
First impression: I was expecting a bad chart
Steps: They had interesting flow, and followed the music perfectly. And for once, I actually liked the BPM change in here. Great chart. My only peeve was some bad hands 5/6
Hamm points: This made me happy 4/4
Total: 9/10

Stickshifts and Safetybelts
First impression: This song is not a song
Steps: Offsync. The steps seemed to work though, confusing. Lacked flow in the earlier areas, but regained near the end 4/6
Hamm points: Offsync 3/4
Total: 7/10