{R-3} My Friend Mudkip (Midigami) [10/23/12]

[Saphira]

Song:My Friend Mudkip
Artist: Halc
Permissions: OCRemix

Stepcloud: Hard|Medium|Easy|Beginner

[DefTeaMachine]

HARD - Accept with fixes.

40.25 - This 16th doesn't really seem to belong here
40.50 thru 40.750- Suggesting a 3 note 32nd mini trill here.
48.75 - Just a thought, i cant tell if there should be a 16th here or not.
62.00 and 63.000- Not liking those quads
117,25 - Missing 16th
153.00 - Freeze doesnt go with anything
166.00 - Don't think that belongs there
178.00 - Same here
237.00-239.00 - Missing lots of 16ths
257.50-258.50 - THIS TRILL IS NO
263.50-264.50 - Turn this into two trills instead on one long one
267.25 - Missing 16th
269.50-270.50 - 2 trils again and THAT F***ING JUMP IN THE MIDDLE IS A BITCH
273.25 - Missing 16th
The Fade Out - Those short freezes you have here on medium? Hard needs them too.
405.00-413.00 - there's a few 16ths in the beat while its fading that you missed

Medium - Accept with fixes
3.375 - Put that arrow somewhere else. Ruins the flow, man.
26.25 - Remove 16th
37.75 - Change 16th to a 32nd
67.75 - Missing 16th
86.50-87.00 - Missing 24th roll
161.75 - Missing 16th
220.667 - I realize why you put this 24th there, but im just not feeling it
232.667 - Change this 24th to a 16th
244.50 - This trill to jump section poses a small difficulty spike. Suggest changing the 23 jump to a 24
264.00 - Missing 4th. Highly recommend it being a (4) while keeping the freezes
270.00 - Same thing. This time i'd go with a (2)
281.00-282.50 - Shouldn't be freezes


Light - Light Reject needs major fixes
Intro - Those freezes are so not where they are suppose to be.
75.00 - Really need a note here, flow's all wrong without it.
94.00 - Here too.
95.50 - And here.
99.00 - Also here
134.00-135.50 - 16th has to go, replace with 8th stream to fit the melody. Lot of flow screw ups today huh?
164.00-165.00 - Add some 8th stream with that freeze. Again more flow.
166.00-167.50 - Same deal.
204.65 - Missing 16th. Came so far without having to say that.
221.50 - 8th note here. This song needs to flow really well and when you keep doing things like this it doesn't.
236.50 - 8th note here, too.
247.00 - Add note
248.50 - Add note
257.25 - Change 16th to a 32nd
259.25 - Add 16th
263.00 - Add a note here (and im also surprised there isnt one already.)
264.00 - Add note
264.50 - Change to a jump. 13 preferably
266.50 - Add note
269.00-270.50 - 8th stream with that freeze and change the note at the end of freeze to a 34 jump
272.50 - Add note
299.00-301.50 - Should have kept the 8th stream going with the freeze
311.50 - Remove 8th.
317.00 - Change to 34 jump
334.00 - add note
338.50 - add note
344.50 - add note
350.50 - add note
356.50 - add note
368.50 - add note
370.00 - add short freeze note
374.50 - add note
394.50 - remove note
395.50 - remove note
397.00 - remove note
405.50 - remove note
406.00-407.00 - change to short freezes
416.00-END - Notes should only be on the beat here

Light has serious flow issues which hold it back from being fun.



Beginner - Undecided

I had talked to you about this one in chat

[Saphira]

Uhh, DefTea it pretty much looks like you're telling him how to step the chart. >.> You're telling him exactly what to do and that's really not a good thing.

On another note I'm going to beg people to please stop reviewing the most recently submitted files and go to the ones that have been waiting for quite some time. x.x

[DefTeaMachine]

Sorry there more like suggestions. I guess i should work on my reviewing skills. heh.

[Midigami]

rip mudkip :<

[eiddiM]

I haven't reviewed in a while...

Key:

(T) Technique - Sim author's skills in pattern manipulation
(S) Sync - Offset, BPM shifts, no misrhythms (obvious errors)
(I) Interpretation/Expression - Creativity and imagination in translating the music, evoking meaningfulness in the file
(E) Engagement - Fun, is re-playable, and shows no signs of dragging the player along
(F) Flow - Matching scales/chord progression, proper structure to the file, good transitions
(A) Additional deductions / Additions

NOTE: I use Dreamstudio, and as such will be giving you times and not beats.

Sync -> Is pretty off noticeably at times. Some notes are correctly on beat, and others are not quite there. You should get someone with even better syncing skills than I to assist you in possibly fixing this. Your idealistic rhythms seem correct for the most part though. With this in mind, you've not been penalized because they don't match up exactly. If you were penalized for sync it was for having misplaced notes.

Hard: 2/1/3/3/2/(0) [11/15] Very Soft Reject Needs fixes to improve a few flow issues and rhythmic issues. You have a very solid chart here, all you're doing is refining it from here.

Overall notes: Holy color intros Batman! There's a lot of things in here that I'll probably note that are preferences, so please keep that in mind. Your style radiates from this chart, almost a little to much. Your hold usage is a little wonky to me, but it seems like you very much knew how you wanted to do this chart.

Suggestions / notes

I highlighted the most important in red for you. I've also spoiler-ed this because it's a bit long. While these do not cover them all, it covers a majority of changes I'd recommend.

Spoiler!

- 191.207, 191.637, 191.852 - Remove these three notes. They're not audible enough to warrant a note being placed there. THIS APPLIES TO ANY FUTURE COPIES OF THIS CHART REVIEWED.

- 0.000 - 7.333 - The PR here is off by a lot. You may want to consider fixing it. It looks rather backwards in spots, but not quite always.

- 11.315 - 16th here

- 24.541 - Consider moving this jump so that it completes the mini jack

- 26.691 27.121 - No need for the quad here. A simple jump or semi roll thing would be more appropriate or jumps. But there's not a single need for a quad here.

- 36.906 - Ghost note remove

- 44.971 - 45.186 - Whilst I do like that you're trying to keep flow here, these three notes are the same pitch and you could jack them if you wished.

- 47.820, 67.820 - 32nd missing here

- 49.272 - Consider making this hand have the 23 section of it have equally length-ed holds.

- 49.702 - I don't know why this is a hold

- 49.917 - This hold should have all 3 notes be the same length. It doesn't have the same sound as the previous one to justify one of them not being the same length.

- 50.562 - Make the two shorter holds the same length

- 52.067 - Consider moving this note to 3 for PR purposes

- 57.336 - move up a 32nd

- 58.841 - 16th missing

- 60.347 & 60.454 - Switch these two notes location. There's no sound to jack here and along with that the 8th note on 2 is actually higher pitched and should be on 3 anyways.

- 61.637 - needs a 16th here. I recommend placing it on 1 and then moving the 8th following over to 4

- 70.992 - missing quarter note here

- 72.712 - would like to see this moved to 1 instead of four due to the low pitch of the tone you're charting.

- 77.013 & 77.443 - these are the same tone and should possibly be charted as such. The two notes between them can be moved to either 3 or 4 to make the pattern accommodating to the change.

- 86.906 - 87.336 - the quarter note needs to be jumped, and I recommend scaling them up in the pattern of 23 24 34

- 93.787 - 94.002 - There's two different changes you can make to this section. You can either change the 24th to a 32nd and eliminate the roll entirely (leave the quarter and the 8th note) which steps the prominent noise. Or you can simply get rid of the 24th and step some subtle noise I hear at .1 rate. I recommend the first idea though.

- 99.307 - 99.379 - this 24th should be a 32nd pattern starting in the 16th above it.

- 99.701 - Place a 16th here and eliminate the surrounding 24th / 12ths

- 100.131 - 8th note here eliminate the 12th above

- one handed 32nd trill - Yeah uh, it's been mentioned in skype what you should do with this.

- 102.067 - Missing 16th

- 105.543 - Ghost note

- 106.260 - Possible missing note pending what you're actually stepping

- 115.937 - You may want to make this section stream instead of trill, you've previously alleviated from strictly trilling this pattern, so you can do it here as well

- 133.142 - why is only one note of this hand held compared to the others?

Medium: 3/2/3/3/2/(0) [13/15] Light Accept, but please fix any missing notes Deftea mentioned as that's really important.

- 1.351 & 1.477 - You're not leaving those notes in the same column.

- There aren't any changes here I can mention that are new from what Def posted. Please reference his notes.

- This chart is really unique. I do look forward to playing this when it hits.


Easy: 2/1/2/2/3/(0) [10/15] Soft reject

- This chart is very, not what it could be. The intro is sloppy as all living heck. It makes sense that you stuck to a somewhat more familiar pattern if you where playing the charts from hard to easy, but if you were a beginner trying to improve this would very easily murder your hopes for this chart.

- You miss opportunity to make the chart fun all over the place. This is the difficulty where you should be very straight forward with what you are stepping to engage a beginner's mind to get into the idea be hitting things that make sense. To me looking at this chart, I would have issues understanding what you were charting exactly.

- Moments like 17.516 are what I am referring to in the above note. Try to stick to a common snap that doesn't deviate much. You're aiming for more fun and engagement over technicalities here. While yes this chart is engaging to my brain, it's engaging it the wrong way with misplaced notes and awkward rhythms instead of simplistic "this is what I'm doing" mentality.

Moments like this:

Spoiler!

Are better than awkward ones like this one:

Spoiler!

You have a solid basis for what you're charting again, but you're in this rut of over complicating it if you asked me. Again, aim for something you can play for fun and keep it relatively simple.


Beginner: 3/3/3/3/0/(0) [12/15] Very Lightly Accepted

NPS: 370 / 191.827 (End note: 191.852 - beginning note: 0.025) = ~1.93 = Awesome

- There is nothing "technically" wrong with this chart, and it meets the submission rule guidelines. By that matter I am forced to accept this.

- However, this chart is really rather difficult. I would feel discouraged as a beginner to play this, especially if it was my first chart.

- Would like to see you tone this chart down in difficulty and fix the disgusting flow. Your patterns are over complicated and sometimes hand picky. Which at this level is very disgusting.

- A few jumps never killed to many AAAs

I do see very very good structures to every single chart here. You just need to refine them to be slightly more precise, slightly more fun, or simplistic. I also hope these notes help you and aren't to far out of one field.

[Midigami]

Thanks Austin, I'll take both reviews and fix it up. Might take a while because my comp decided it would be an excellent time to completely shit a birck and die on me x.x

[eiddiM]

Ouch that sucks. And yeah, I realllllly need to come and review more.

[Midigami]

welp, fixed up Hard & Medium charts a bit. Hopefully I can finish Easy & Beginner charts today and resubmit.

edit: fix'd Easy, but not sure what to do on beginner :/...

[Nocturne]

welp, fixed up Hard & Medium charts a bit. Hopefully I can finish Easy & Beginner charts today and resubmit.

edit: fix'd Easy, but not sure what to do on beginner :/...

- However, this chart is really rather difficult. I would feel discouraged as a beginner to play this, especially if it was my first chart.

- Would like to see you tone this chart down in difficulty and fix the disgusting flow. Your patterns are over complicated and sometimes hand picky. Which at this level is very disgusting.

Just go by that and tone down beginner. less notes, more basic 4th structures. you know what I'm talking about.

[Midigami]

Just go by that and tone down beginner. less notes, more basic 4th structures. you know what I'm talking about.

ah. Well, I could fix it up once I get feedback from the other charts since I resent it a while ago...

[Zero]

attached the resubmission to this thread. please everyone review it thanks

[Midigami]

attached the resubmission to this thread. please everyone review it thanks

\o/~

[JasonKey]

bumpity bump for a review?

[Nocturne]

BEAT ZERO ISSUE PRESENT IN ALL DIFFICULTIES. PLEASE FIX BEFORE FILE GETS ACCEPTED


Hard: Not gonna lie I loved every second of this chart. It was pretty beautiful. The only problem I have is the super long outro. You could've stopped stepping when it got to a barely audible point, but you stepped to the waveform which dragged the chart on. 14/15 but Very strong usage of accenting, layering, and snare emphasis
Accepted

Medium: Definitely a more abrasive medium in terms of difficulty. You didn't quite water it down as much as I would've hoped for, but I'm assuming medium players won't mind a nice challenge. Great steps, but not big enough of a layering drop to capture me. Light Accept

Easy: Refer back to your other difficulties, this intro has steps placed in different places than you had on Medium and Hard. Some of the Greens on Easy you had as 192nds. The notes are barely off so I won't deduct much. Light Accept

Beginner: NPS: 1.91 Nicely done. I like it. Accepted

[Midigami]

:') once I get on a comp and not get lazy I'll read up on that beat zero issue @.@

[DefTeaMachine]

Lol good enough. Accepted.

[Midigami]

first file accepted in-game :')

edit: going to fix up a minor issue in medium and then resubmitting it with the 2 sec of silence added

edit 2: resubmitted with 2 sec of silence & minor issues fixed (mainly fixing the offset which I had almost forgotten about LOL)

[Zero]

Added the updated file because everyone else on this site sucks

[Midigami]

\o/ let's get this file in already \o\|o|/o/