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Steps: While I usually don’t really like slow songs, you somehow made this simfile work. Unfortunately though, the steps got sort of repetitive and there wasn’t anything truly fun in it. The 32nd gallops are better than slow galloping (with a 16th instead), but they don’t make the song any better. (4/6)
EE: I don’t really care for the song that much, and the graphics are just okay, although I do like your background’s concept. (2.5/4)
Overall Score: 6.5/10

Action Radius

Steps: This song was rated a 10 (though to me it feels more like a 9), but to me for a bad reason. Forcing players to jump in lots of random places isn’t fun, friend. (2.5/6)
EE: The song overall was pretty neat, although it felt like it would fit in better with the ITG bracket instead. I was not impressed with the graphics, which were bland and looked like they came from DDR OSC 2. (2/4)
Overall Score: 4.5/10

Ai~n! Dance no Uta

Steps: I enjoyed the way the chaos followed the song in a very fun manner. The ‘8th gallops’ from the choruses were also fun, but you could’ve used different patterns for that part to make it less repetitive. Still great overall, though. (5/6)
EE: Easily the Have You Never Been Mellow of the DDR bracket, this song is ever stupider than that song with the video and all, but this time I actually find it to be pretty fun. However, I must admit that its cheesiness factor went too over the edge and that there would most certainly be people who’d loathe this song if it were on an official mix. The banner looked very nice and perfectly complimented the video. (3/4)
Overall Score: 8/10

Blow Me Away

Steps: Basically an amateurish attempt at making a hardcore simfile. I found these steps to be overdone with freeze arrows and that its bpm should’ve been halved from what you had it. I also disliked the 16th drills and small 8th streams that led into a jump going the other way from where your feet would be at the time. (1.5/6)
EE: Horrible song choice. You’ll need to understand that simply digging some rock song from a CD that most people own and stepping it just won’t take you very far. Instead, I recommend you search far and wide for a great song with a dancier feel that truly sounds like a great idea for DDR. The graphics are not good, as they’re just made of a googled Halo picture, but there are better than what people have been saying so far. (1.5/4)
Overall Score: 3/10

Disco Dog

Steps: Overall, this is a very original and fun stepchart, but it is flawed. It would’ve worked better had you made it easier by following the music exactly during the parts where you instead threw in a bunch of 16th bursts. (4.5/6)
EE: The background was very cool and absolutely hilarious, but I was disappointed by the banner’s quality. The song choice was very clever, but 74 seconds just isn’t long enough to really work. (2.5/4)
Overall Score: 7/10

Domino

Steps: These steps are okay, but they’re not horribly original. Also disliked the chaos early on and especially the speed changes (at first it should’ve been changed to 162, not 324; the second one is pointless). (3/6)
EE: Loved the song banner and background, as well as the fabulous background videos. (4/4)
Overall Score: 7/10

Dragostea Din Tei

Steps: While not downright horrible, these steps are boring and don’t show your potential as a step designer. It’s also way too easy for a 7; it should be an easy 6, only because of some decently long streams and lots of steps on the offbeat. Sorry, but I can’t believe the same person who made the awesome Jump simfile also made this. (2.5/6)
EE: The song is pretty good for DDR, but now it feels outdated, especially since nDDRo already made a superior stepfile for the same song. The graphics were pretty marginal. The fat guy behind the microphone and the airplane in the banner make no sense whatsoever, and the background is just a generic modified picture of O-Zone. I also disliked the text format. Also bugged because it has two empty Edit stepcharts. (1.5/4)
Overall Score: 4/10

Dream Of You

Steps: Nice use of turning and jumps in this stepchart. Not really anything bad about it, except for a few parts that didn’t follow the music as they should’ve such as right before the first set of chaos, where the steps ignore the overstated drumbeats. (5.5/6)
EE: Brilliant graphics; you must be someone originally part of the nDDRo crew. The song also worked well. (4/4)
Overall Score: 9.5/10

Emoticons

Steps: Nicely done overall. Only complaints are that during the part before the chorus, there are a couple of instances where the player might twist his/her body in the wrong direction (found in measures 15 and 17), as well as the fact that I would’ve liked it had you been more creative with the synth melody and followed it more loyally. (5/6)
EE: Really couldn’t be any better at all. The song choice is absolutely flawless - J-Pop and Eurobeat, two of the most common genres in DDR! I also adored the concept with the high-quality graphics by having lots of emoticons arranged and formatted in a very clever fashion. (4/4, plus 1 for being so amazingly great in this category)
Overall Score: 10/10

Geno’s Woods

Steps: Follows the song perfectly. Not the most refined stepchart ever, but it compliments the song the right way. Should’ve been rated a 9 though. It’s like having lots of 8ths at 200 bpm, only much harder to read on 1x. (4.5/6)
EE: Mmmm, this harkens back to Beware The Forest Mushrooms from Tournamix 1, which is another version of this same song that I prefer, though it sounds more outdated. Anyway, nice job with the graphics overall, but the song bored me. (2.5/4)
Overall Score: 7/10

Go Berserk

Steps: Pretty much the Boogie Down of the first DDR Bracket, with mainly lots of 8th streams and lots of jumps, but you somehow made it work on Heavy. I didn’t like the Challenge steps as much, as they twist and throw the player into lots of random places. (4/6)
EE: I hated this song so much, partly because it had no bass and thus sounded all wrong. The graphics are clearly just an amateurish attempt at Photoshop (you can tell because it uses the default red border around Go Berserk). (1.5/4)
Overall Score: 5.5/10

Golddiggers

Steps: I guess these steps followed the song decently. They aren’t mind-blowing, but they work pretty well, and I like the gallops thrown in. (5/6)
EE: The graphics looked pretty realistic, but they still work with the song, considering it’s Golddiggers. The song is also decent, but the French guy makes it seem sort of cheesy. (3/4)
Overall Score: 8/10

Hikari

Steps: Nice work with the twisting patterns. The small 16th runs don’t really fit in and made the steps sort of feel like a hastle, though. (4.5/6)
EE: Nice work with the graphics (except the banner, which doesn’t really fit in with the song at all) and the video. The song is just okay for DDR; who doesn’t step anime songs these days? (3/4)
Overall Score: 7.5/10

Kagekiha

Steps: Nice work with all the gallops and overall patterns. Unfortunately for you though, this song is horribly offsync throughout, thus ruining it. It’s probably slower than 180 bpm. (2/6)
EE: The next Tsugaru! I love this song so much, and the video makes it even better. (4/4)
Overall Score: 6/10

Last Regrets (Xmas Dance Mix) (for OSC 5)

Steps: Overall a well-made easy song. The patterns follow the song in a good way, and the 16ths keep it from being boring. It’s actually synced slightly late, but since lots of computers register notes a bit slowly, that’s fine. (5/6)
EE: Yay, yet another anime song, although I actually like the way this one sounds. The graphics are splendid as well. (3.5/4)
Overall Score: 8.5/10

Let Me Stay

Steps: Very boring and bland. Nothing but jumps and 8th streams. Oh, and jump-stepping and step-jumping at the beginning or end of a stream isn’t fun when you do it too much. (2/6)
EE: Didn’t really care for the bland graphics, which are presumably just a modified picture of the band. The song also bored me very much. (1.5/4)
Overall Score: 3.5/10

One Heart

Steps: Since the song is pretty slow, the steps aren’t horribly fun, but they do follow the song very nicely. I also enjoyed the freezes that forced you to spin all the way around the mat. They weren’t too hard to memorize, and they made it a lot more fun. (4/6)
EE: The graphics are pretty mediocre. When I saw the artist was Celine Dion, I was predicting a disaster, but it actually sort of worked well, although it’s still sort of boring in DDR. (2.5/4)
Overall Score: 6.5/10

Parasite World

Steps: It seemed like a pretty neat idea with the turning, streams, and chaos, but it got ruined because its stepchart is incomplete. (2/6)
EE: You probably got this neat-but-quiet song from the Media Shop back on Bemanistyle 6.0. The graphics were marginal because the text format was poor. (2/4)
Overall Score: 4/10

Radio Star

Steps: Very fun overall. The easy chaos follows the song splendidly well, and the rest of the patterns work nicely also. It might’ve been easy enough to be a 6, but it’s great for a simple stepchart. (5.5/6)
EE: The graphics are very well made, and the song is surprisingly catchy on DDR. (3.5/4)
Overall Score: 9/10

Ragnarok Online - TeMP It Up

Steps: Extremely overdone with freeze arrows and frustrating jumps. Just like Blow Me Away, this sounds like its bpm should’ve been halved. (2/6)
EE: The song does not work with DDR at all, and the graphics are pretty much the opposite of what the song feels like. (1/4)
Overall Score: 3/10

Rock Steady

Steps: Mmmm, outside of Dragon Blade, you don’t see very many songs at 240 bpm. The Heavy steps aren’t too hard, but they’re fun and the song’s fast tempo makes it interesting. Also liked it that you included harder Challenge steps to compliment the song’s brisk speed. Sometimes, the steps don’t follow the song perfectly, but it’s still rather fun overall. (5/6)
EE: Very nice graphics. Also a creative song choice because as I stated, there aren’t too many songs that scroll up at 240 bpm. (3.5/4)
Overall Score: 8.5/10

Seven

Steps: Not very fun, with lots bad twisting in the streams and horrible 16th runs that force you into unnecessary turning. (2/6)
EE: The song is pretty boring and lacks the fun feel of dj TAKA’s songs. The graphics are just so-so. (2/4)
Overall Score: 4/10

Shake It Down

Steps: Very refined. The patterns follow the song well, and the only problem I have is that you could’ve been a bit more creative with the steps. (5/6)
EE: Very nice graphics. Simplistic, but perfect for the song, which I find to be catchy and fun to dance to. Astounding video, too. (4/4)
Overall Score: 9/10

The Great Blue Sky ~and the stars above~

Steps: Easily the Stickshifts & Safetybelts of the DDR Bracket. I find the patterns to be surprisingly fun with all the gallops surrounded by lightly dense steps, later getting harder. Also very underrated so far. (4.5/6)
EE: Just like Stickshifts, this song unfortunately also has pretty bad graphics. I’ve never danced to anything like this song before, but as with S&S, it’s actually pretty enjoyable. (2.5/4)
Overall Score: 7/10

These Emotions

Steps: Way too many freezes, some unnecessary or too short. I disliked the jumps at the end of streams, as well as the slowdown. Steps are not fun when you overdo them and include too many gaps. (1.5/6)
EE: The song really bored me out, and the graphics were not very impressive. (2/4)
Overall Score: 3.5/10

Tori No Uta

Steps: The turns in the 8th streams were decent, but I unfortunately didn’t really find the steps to be very original. (3.5/6)
EE: More anime again! Oh well, it’s fine. I loved how the background transitioned into the video. The song might be too dull for the game, though. (3/4)
Overall Score: 6.5/10

Under The Sea (I thought this simfile was DQ’d!)

Steps: The chaos was very original by following the lyrics well, although there should’ve been a bit less turning. The slow bpm also makes it seem less fun, not to mention this could’ve been a 7. Good job, though. (4.5/6)
EE: Marvelous graphics! The song choice was really quite creative, but since it’s so recognizable, I find it to be a flaw that the song sample did not start during the chorus and instead the rap verse. (3.5/4)
Overall Score: 8/10

You Raise Me Up (7” Anthem Mix)

Steps: I thought these steps were okay, but they lacked true originality and got boring quickly. (3/6)
EE: The song choice was pretty much average, but I did like the graphics. (3/4)
Overall Score: 6/10