[Dark Luke]

More to come if time permits!

Update 3/03/2006 12:50 AM EST:
-Added 2 reviews

Update 3/02/2006 12:10 AM EST:
-Added bunch of reviews, hopefully more to come if the public review thread can stay a bit longer
-Changed the scoring for others as follows:

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Bonus key: (maximum of +0.5 points)

Author's original song: + 0.5 points
Video or animations: +0.3 points
One doubles chart: +0.3 points
Hard and challenge doubles: +0.4 points
Complete doubles sets: +0.5 points
Lyrics: +0.1 points


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Endless Journey

Steps:
Easy: 1/1
+No complaints, good work!

Medium: 1/1
+No complaints, good work!

Hard: 2/2
+No complaints, good work!

Challenge: 1.8/2
+Very good overall but...
-Crossovers dominate the entire 1st half (could tone down a bit)
-24th... doesn't seem to belong to this song...

Step subtotal: 5.8/6

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 3.5/3.5
+Good graphics

Total: 9.3/10

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Graduation (um... Gradation)

Steps:
Easy: 1/1
+No complaints, good work!

Medium: 1/1
+No complaints, good work!

Hard: /2
+No complaints, good work!

Challenge: 2/2
+No complaints, good work!

Step subtotal: 6/6

Extras: 0.1/0.5
Lyrics

Others: 3.4/3.5
+Good text effects in graphics!

Total: 9.5/10

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Steps:
Easy: /1

Medium: /1

Hard: /2

Challenge: /2

Step subtotal: /6

Extras: 0.5

Others: /3.5

Total:

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Have You Ever Been Mellow?

Steps:
Easy: 1/1
+No complaints, good work!

Medium: 0.8/1
+Looks fun
-With 418 steps and long 8th streams this can possibly be a 8

Hard: 3.5/4
+Looks like a challenging 9 footer with a huge load of mines.

Step subtotal: 5.3/6

Extras: 0.3/5
Music video!

Others: 3.5/3.5
Good graphics

Total: 9.1/10

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I Wanna Talk About Me

Steps:
Easy: 1/1
+Good easy steps

Medium: 1/1
+Good medium steps
+Good flow

Hard: 1.6/2
+pretty good steps
-could have a bit better flow in the mine skipping part
-sextuplet (24th) drills isn't very desirable in a 7 foot song

Challenge: 1.4/2
+decent rhythms
-Some BSable hands (handplants at very end of holds that can be scored without using hands) but not a big deal
-Some double steps in 16th streams

Step subtotal: 5/6

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 2.5/3.5
-Could have some work. Background is a cover of a sheet music book put on top of a background that has too much brightness and contrast

Total: 7.5/10

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Identity

Steps:
Easy: 0.8/1
+Pretty good
-Could be a 4 though, as this is a bit too streamy for a 3 and the presence of a few very short 8th clusters

Medium: 0.8/1
+Not bad
-Too many jump sections and 8th clusters for a 5 though...

Hard: 1.6/2
+Pretty good overall, but
-The final big 16th stream is overkill for a 9 footer... Can be fatal to players who are still working on 9 footers

Challenge: 1.7/2
+A good 12 footer overall, however...
-The Robotix (super speed up) section with hands is not cool
-Machine guy steps (e.g. LRLRLRLRLRLR) aren't exactly fun

Step subtotal: 4.9/6

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 3.2/3.5
-Graphics taken directly from o2jam

Total: 8.1/10

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Inner Universe

Steps:
Easy: 0.6/1
+Difficulty rating is pretty accurate this time
-What's with all the big number of jumps in the very quiet part of the song?
-The 16th stream at the "slowdown" = boo

Medium: 0.2/1
-Lots of double steps in fast 8th streams, that doesn't fit the mood of the song!
-What's with all the big number of jumps in the very quiet part of the song?
-And 16th clusters embeded in fast 8th streams!
-The 32th stream at the "slowdown" = boo
-Not a 8 footer!
-ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz........

Hard: 1/2
+At least the guy from the video barely passed this
-What's with all the big number of jumps in the very quiet part of the song?
-Heavy double steppy streams don't fit this song
-In the 2nd half of the song, together with 16th clusters this can screw the player up by leading the wrong foot to the start

of the 16th clusters
-The 32th stream at the "slowdown" = boo

Challenge: 1/2
+At least I (barely) passed this on my cobalt flux
-Steps don't fit the song
-Triplets (12th notes) became rainbow colored notes... Stepmania supports them and they should be purple
-There are no 12th notes in the music
-Fast rainbow colored streams with yucky double steps!
-The 32th stream at the "slowdown" = boo

Step subtotal: 2.8/6

Others: 2.2/3.5
-Okay graphics
-Not an exactly exciting song...

Total: 5/10

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Jump

Steps:
Easy: 0.8/1
+Good easy steps
-A bit too much jumpy
-A bit demanding with mines

Medium: 1/1
+Nice fun steps, good work!

Hard: 2/2
+Nice fun steps, good work!

Challenge: 2/2
+Nice fun steps, enjoy your mine dodging!

Step subtotal: 5.8/6

Extras: 0/0

Others: 3.2/3.5
+Decent graphics

Total: 9/10

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Kiss Me

Steps:
Easy: 0.8/1
+A good easy chart
-Could be a 4 as streams are sorta on the heavy side

Medium: 0.8/1
+Pretty good overall
-A bit too many 8th streams for a 5...

Hard: 1.6/2
+Good rhythm and patterns, but...
-Not a 7 footer - at 126 bpm it's too 16th happy (espcially the 2 streams at some point)

Challenge: 2/2
+Very good steps, especially rhythm and flow
|Big Mine field at the end... Can either be fun or death depends on the player...

Step subtotal: 5.2/6

Extras: 0.3/0.5
Hey it's from PIU so there should be a Video from PIU!

Others: 3.2/3.5
+Good job for your PIU crossover!
-graphics taken directly from PIU

Total: 8.7/10

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Mario takes a walk

Steps:
Easy: 0.7/1
+Not too bad
-It's long quarter streams for a whole way... Bariety please

Medium: 0.9/1
+Pretty good
-Has some double steps, but nothing major

Hard: 1.6/2
+Pretty good, espcially rhythms
-Crossovers are a bit excessive
-What's with the weird arrow color in some parts?

Challenge: 1.5/2
+Flow is fairly good
-What's with the weird arrow color in some parts?
-Crossovers in sextuplet (6 notes in a beat) streams or 32th streams isn't exactly a good idea...

Step subtotal: 4.7/6

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 2/3.5
+Unique choice of song
|okay graphics
-Gap is way off, but is fixable

Total: 6.7/10

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Multiball

Steps:
Easy: 0.6/1
+Fairly good as a 7 footer
-Foot rating is wayyyyyyyyyyy off, too streamly at high speeds for a 5

Medium: 0.3/1
-Awkward flow in the 8th sections in the 1st half of the song
-Too hard for a 8!

Hard: 1.5/2
+More variety than the challenge version
-"Tell" style jumps...
-Some double stepping

Challenge: 1.2/2
-Double steps in fast 300 bpm streams... uh oh
-An insanely fast triplet jump stream near the end...
-More variety to the steps please?

Step subtotal: 3.6/6

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 2.7/3.5
+Good graphics
-Doubled BPM


Total: 6.3/10

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涙GIRL

Steps:
Easy: 1/1
+No complaints, good work

Medium: 1/1
+No complaints, good work

Hard: 1.75/2
+Fun steps in general
+Good flow
-Streams kinda drags on...

Challenge: 1.75/2
+Fun steps in general
+Good flow
-Though the first half kinda drags a bit

Step subtotal: 5.5/6

Extras: 0.4/0.5
cool live video
lyrics

Others: 3.2/3.5
+good graphics
-Song kinda long...

Total: 9.1/10
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Satelite

Steps:
Easy: 1/1
+No complaints, good work

Medium: 1/1
+No complaints, good work

Hard: 1.8/2
-Some double step in the streamy section, which the player needs to pay attention when the short 16th bursts comes in

Challenge: 1.5/2
+Rhythms make sense
-Seems a bit jumpy in the 1st half for such a mellow trance song
-A few double steps in the 2nd half complex rhythm section

Step subtotal: 5.3/6

Extras: 0.5/0.5
Full sets of double!

Others: 2.7/3.5
|okay graphics, artist text can be better
-sort of generic trance

Total: 8.5/10

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Speedy Cat

Steps:
Easy: 0.2/1
-WAYYYYYYYYY too many fast successive triples. 3 triples in a row? no way!

Medium: 0.2/1
-WAYYYYYYYYY too many triples following other notes too quickly
-Way too many 8th stepjumps in not-so-easy given pattens
-Difficulty is way off

Hard: 3.5/4
+Single rolls = think them at 8th jackhammers and have fun!
-Triples are kinda abused

Step subtotal: 3.9/6

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 3.5/3.5
+Good graphics

Total: 7.4/10

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Startin

Steps:
Easy: /1
+No complaints, good work!

Medium: 1/1
+No complaints, good work!

Hard: 2/2
+Nice fun steps, good work!

Challenge: 2/2
+Nice fun steps, good work!

Step subtotal: 6/6

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 3/3.5
+Good graphics
-Song seems to drag for a little bit

Total: 9/10

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Stickshifts and Safetybelts

Steps:
Easy: 0.8/1
+Pretty good
-There are enough 8th notes to make this a 5 instead of a 4...

Medium: 0.5/1
-Karaoke steps in some places, containing weird colored arrows
-Long 8th streams at 140 bpm don't really belong to 6 foot songs...

Hard: 2.5/4
+Rhythm match the song pretty well
-Double steps within fast, complicated rhythms can cause some trouble for the players, while others are not a real problem.

Players need to pay attention to which foot to start each group of arrows.

Step subtotal: 3.8

Extras: 0/0.5

Others: 2.5/3.5
+You doing pretty good at stepping a song with flucuating tempo.
-Song kinda drags on

Total: 6.3/10