[pokecapn]

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in reverse order again, heavy only but i guess if you yell at me enough i'll play your standard/challenge steps but if they're just as bad i'll take off more points

you raise me up:
steps: for me, the big dealbreaker was the amount of time i was stepping without a beat, it just doesn't work. -1.5 I also felt that the long freezes were either filler for not knowing what to put down, or simply a natural result of picking the wrong song to step. -1 total: 3.5/6
tilt: i can't really take off points for song choice as it was a fine song, it just effected your steps 4/4
overall: 7.5/10

under the sea:
steps: following the vocals worked really well during the verses, but during the first one and a half choruses it ends up putting way too much dead space in the file -1.5. i also did not enjoy the last part of the last chorus because it was simply too repetitive and too sparse -1. total: 3.5/6
tilt: oh god why would you step a song like this -1 3/4
overall: 6.5/10

tori no uta:
steps: these steps were pretty good, a little bit on the straightforward side aside from the 16ths. -.5 when i played these i ended up having to face the wrong way in order to hit that last note, i'm not sure if that was my own fault, but i usually spin around for the final LR jump of a song so i think it's all right. total: 5.5/6
tilt: pokecap n (23:50:10): should i dock them points for air
removed (23:50:16): well
removed (23:50:18): I wouldn't
removed (23:50:24): given your style, yes
removed (23:50:31): you would loathe air
i won't do that, but i will dock you for using the fansubbed op. i'm here to play a song not watch anime i could care less that shoujofan24324 did the timing -.5 total: 3.5/4
overall: 9/10

these emotions:
steps: lots of doublestepping -1. while the song is indeed mellow, it's probably too freeze heavy -1. the slowdown wasn't really needed and made the file drag on for far too long -1. having to step 4th-8th with one foot while the other is holding a freeze is pretty un ddr like -.5 total: 2.5/6
tilt: bland graphics, boring song 2/4
overall: 4.5/10

the great blue sky:
steps: had to wait way too long listening to next to nothing before the steps came -1. the steps basically line up exactly to the music, and in the case of this particular song it makes things sparse, freeze heavy, and boring to play -3. total: 2/6
tilt: graphics were just mspaint text over an image, song choice was poor 1/4
overall: 3/10

shake it down:
steps: this is really good stepwise. there were some parts that felt a bit sparse. -.5 at times i felt like i needed to spin, (i think the pattern is like r-d-l-rest-u-rest-r) but that might have been ordinary world syndrome -.5 5.5/6
tilt: nothing wrong here 4/4
overall: 9.5/10

seven:
steps: i'll start with the doublestepping. there's way too much of it. i suppose it gives the steps a disjointed feel much like the time signature, but holic pulled that off without putting 7 spins in a row right near the beginning of the song -2. the steps are sparse during most of the song, there's a lot of waiting, which contributes to the doublestep confusion -1. then there's the 16th run. ddr doesn't have 16th runs on that scale aside from the maxes. not to mention during one or two of those runs you needed to doublestep a transition -1.5. NITPICK: you had a left followed by a left 1/16 after. that only happens in really slow songs or super max me challenge. -.5 total: 1/6
tilt: graphics weren't great, dmashura clause 2/4
overall: 3/10

rock steady:
steps: i really liked these steps. afronova, drop out, and ps all feel like gimmicks, so there's no song in this bpm range that feels like a decent file. these really work. 6/6
tilt: your challenge steps are a different story entirely and should have been left out of the file. ddr doesn't have 11s, and these steps in particular don't feel like ps or max style steps anyway so i don't want to give you the full points. 3/4
overall: 9/10

ragnarok blah blah:
steps: these suffer from many of the same problems as these emotions. lots of doublestepping -1. the song is too freeze heavy -1. having to step 4th-8th with one foot while the other is on a freeze is not ddr like -.5 total: 3.5/6
tilt: song is extremely boring, graphics aren't great, and my friend was baffled for like 8 hours until i told him to completely clear out his temp directory because whenever he tried to install missionrisk it would launch the ragnarok online installer instead so it's pretty obvious that nothing good can come from ragnarok online 0.5/4
overall: 4/10

radio star:
steps: i've already said how much i like this in the discussion thread. it pretty much feels exactly like a solo 2000 or 4th mix song. 6/6
tilt: see above 4/4
overall: 10/10

parasite world:
steps: what can i say, you forgot to finish them, but at least they weren't en route to being a complete disaster 0.5/6
tilt: see above 0/4
overall: 0.5/10

one heart:
steps: didn't care for the forced spins -1, putting the hardest part during the quiet part wasn't such a great idea and maybe bumps the difficulty up to a 7 -.5. little too karaoke in parts -.5 total: 4/6
tilt: i would like to say i dream about peeing on celine dion with magical urine so that she goes back in time to unrecord her songs but if i said that i would be lying so instead i'll say that i would like to dream about peeing on celine dion with magical urine so that she goes back in time to unrecord her songs 2.5/4
overall: 6.5/10

let me stay:
steps: i felt that there wasn't enough consistency or symmetry to these steps. the patterns change at intervals and positions i'm not really comfortable with, and it didn't really make sense why a certain pattern would follow the preceding one. it's difficult to describe what's wrong with the steps other than "they feel weird" but that's pretty much how i feel. 4/6
tilt: i didn't think the graphics were all that special 3/4
overall: 7/10

last regrets:
steps: to me these felt a bit offsync, but no one else mentioned it so it might have been my imagination. the big problem is the quiet part. becuase that breakdown and buildup lacks a lot of stuff to keep the steps going, you resort to using lots of freeze arrows, making the steps not very enjoyable. a lot like you raise me up in that sense so i'll give you a 3.5/6
tilt: j-pop =/= anime clause, tell me in the discussion thread if i'm wrong and i'll give you the point back (edit i was wrong) 4/4
overall: 7.5/10

kagekiha:
steps: okay, so you're trying to step it like tsugaru while still being different. here's the thing. there are way too many doublesteps in this file, tsugaru hardly had any if at all, this would have been a pretty enjoyable song if it weren't for all of these, and at 180bpm they aren't excusable -2. also, there were parts in the song where it was really difficult to figure out what you were following -1. i'd like to point out that tsugaru is also 15bpm lower than this file, so the 32nds might not be as technically relevant. total: 3/6
tilt: nice to use some of tsugaru's videos 4/4
overall: 7/10

hikari:
steps: doublesteps. lots of them. -1.5 the huge problem with these is that frequently you place jumps right after the player has either just recovered from an awkward position or is about to get into one. -1.5 sure you rated it a 9, but when i think 9 with awkward doublesteps, i think of much harder songs in the 170-200bpm range that pretty much suck. the spins at the very beginning also didn't help. -1 total 2/6
tilt: i was wondering what the hell dogs had to do with j-pop and was about to invoke the other dmashura clause but after seeing the video, if anyone knows how to incorporate pawprints, magical girls, and crystals, it's japan. oh wait a fansubbed op 3.5/4
overall: 5.5/10

golddiggers:
steps: the one thing i didn't like about these steps were the 2-note jackhammers. i didn't think they really went with the music. -1 otherwise these were great 5/6
tilt: fine 4/4
overall: 9/10

go berzerk:
steps: these were pretty good. the 2-note jackhammers were warrented given the song. however you had a small 8th note run that had to be done with one foot and that's no good -.5 5.5/6
tilt: yes the sound quality matters that much 1/4
overall: 6.5/10

geno's woods:
steps: it's a lot like the kirby song, only exchange sparse with too hard at times and freeze heavy with the freezes completely disrupt the flow of the steps. however, you did try to change the rhythms up a bit compared with the kirby song -3.5. 2.5/6
tilt: i was hoping you'd use the lyrical version 3/4
overall: 5.5/10

emoticons:
steps: these would have been great but there were a couple of doublesteps -1 5/6
tilt: :emoticon: 4/4
overall: 9/10

dream of you:
AH THERE YOU ARE HOT CONTENTION ON THE FORUMS STEPS: here's my take. you're known for your twisty steps. max is known for having eurobeat 9s. you tried to combine the two and it basically ended up wrong. my main gripe comes from the second synth section, it doesn't match the first one. flash in the night matches, fantasy matches, you took different patterns and it's confusing -1. note that your max combo is 499 so you're on the hard side of 9 footers. with that kind of combo, all the twistiness in your file just makes the pattern too tireing. fitn and fantasy had really easy sections in the middle to give you time to recover your bar. this doesn't. -.5. don't get me wrong, your steps are technically spot on, but you're making the player do too much. 4.5/6
tilt: all good 4/4
overall: 8.5/10

dragostea din tei:
steps: intro is too long for my tastes but not extremely bad -.5. your steps try to follow the vocals too closely, ignoring a lot of other rhythms and basically making the steps unnecessarily easy and sparse -1.5. 4/6
tilt: numa numa kid is still funny right guys? ...guys? 3/4
overall: 7/10

domino:
steps: the random bpm changes make this the most unintentionally hilarious file of the pack. -3 that aside, i'll play it again on C400 so i can see what's technically wrong. a good chunk of spins/doublesteps -1. incidentally, the steps in the 2x bpm part don't really follow anything -1. where you put the 16ths doesn't make sense at all, they should have gone in the synth parts. -.5 0.5/6
tilt: you put tons of effort into the videos, including white flashes that go with the music, but honestly the only reason i'd play this song again is so i could laugh when it rockets to 324 bpm for no reason. i guess in some way you managed to make an enjoyable file but it's enjoyable for the wrong reason 0.5/4
overall: 1/10

disco dog:
steps: too many 2-step jackhammers -1. on the whole you've made the song unecessarily difficult by trying to follow everything that was going on, i think this would have done well in the ITG bracket but not here. -2 3/6
tilt: i laughed when the background came up but that's not a good thing 3/4
overall: 6/10

blow me away:
steps: okay, this feels like a very first stepfile aside from the fact that the syncing is good. first, the bpm is wrong, it should be 99bpm. -1. second, the 16ths are excessive, and in the case of the 16th crossovers, stupid -2. there are too many doublesteps -1.5. the freeze parts are beyond confusing -1.5. 0/6
tilt: bad graphics, bad song, come back again soon, i'll be waiting for your next dance 0/4
overall: 0/10

ai-n:
steps: the beginning and end were way too hard compared to the rest of your steps -1.5 4.5/6
tilt: JESUS 3/4
overall: 7.5/10

action radius:
steps: too much of the song was quiet and had absolutely nothing to go by. i was not happy with waiting long at the beginning just so i could start stepping to nothing. this could have been cut much better. all the quiet parts really ruin the file -2.5. as for the steps themselves, they just hit the same rhythm over and over again, only the later in the song you go the more of these become jumps. -2.5 1/6
tilt: the song was too quiet too much of the time 3/4
overall: 4/10

24:
steps: these weren't bad. there was one spin that i thought was out of place -.5 and there were too many 2-step jackhammers -1 4.5/6
tilt: fine 4/4
overall: 8.5/10

tizzop choices:
1) radio star
2) shake it down
3) golddiggers
3) rock steady
3) emoticons
3) tori no uta