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December 2nd / 2011

Shinsekai (00Razor00): PR is a bit shotty (although really well done in other spots), and layering is almost non-existent. While the layering note is a bit more of a subjective thing, I also feel like layering can be the difference from having an overly repetitive chart out of this song, and a somewhat technically challenging chart for it. Done well overall, but very very repetitive (admittedly, hard to avoid). Accepted.

Baroquen Music Box Re-Inventio (ScarletSky): Jesus, did you sync every beat by hand, even for the areas where it sounds fairly constant? BPM is going all over the place. Thankfully, it stays pretty well synced for the entire song during the build-ups and slowdown. The structure of the song irks me a little bit in the first third of the chart, where there's some missing 16th note upbeats for the melody. The current structure isn't incorrect, but it's a bit distracting (at least to me), to see some of the missing notes. Another thing that bothers me about the chart is at 34.335, where the BPM of the song clearly gets halved (bass/snare end up on beats 1/3 instead of 1/2, respectively), but the chart doesn't cut the BPM, leading to a somewhat messy red and blue note ending. Despite the disagreement of structure, it does progress fairly well, and it flows nicely too. Replayability is also there with the tricky pattern choice during the speed-up. Accepted.

Elisha (00Razor00): Nothing wrong. Accepted.

My Fucking Desire for You (Xx{Midnight}xX): 3.050/59.050 - requesting changes/fixes on this, it stands out a bit more erroneous now that it's all jumps in comparison to 4 jumps/4 taps - also, try to vary up your patterns a bit more here. That last jumpstream is absolutely insane, jesus. Conditional accept.

The Four Heroes of Light (Zekramcross): I actually see some pitch relevancy here, which is always a plus. However, the BPM of your song is incorrect (use 70.000 BPM, it works perfectly), which causes the sync to drift very far off from where it needs to be. You do have the right offset, though. Try to fill in the areas where you don't have steps to complete your chart a bit more. Fixes needed.

Worm Song (supermoe1985): A BPM of over 200 is very unlikely for a song like this. If you were to tap out quarter notes in this, what would you want it to be? It'd very likely end up being 128 BPM (instead of 256 BPM). Try stepping the song again with a BPM of 128, and an offset of -0.029. Fixes needed.

December 3rd / 2011
Anisakis (00Razor00)
A very creative attempt! Some things though:

- 12.428: missing 16th for hi-hat? intentional omission seems possible because of the bass drum change before it, but one 16th here won't really kill anything flow-wise/layering wise.
- 28.561 to 32.453: either keep the PR the way you had it previously, or make the change that you have here and keep it running all the way down (in essence, have the chart repeating 42132 repeatedly again, or use the first set of five ([34]1241 and repeat it for PR by repeating 31241 or 41241 over and over again). I don't care about direct or proper PR, but if you're matching a repeating synth, at least make your patterns structurally similar. Another option would be to do one pattern, and then immediately mirror it the next time for a call and response effect.
- 32.453: the first time you omitted the running melody was alright because this particular melody hadn't truly come in yet, but I personally feel that you should keep it running here. Granted, this will boost your difficulty quite a bit for a moment.
- 38.939: see 28.561.
- 44.776 to 47.695: jumps?
- 49.027/54.177: these two rolls have a bit of a timing discrepancy - the 64th colored roll starts late and has two areas where it's a nasty frame issue once converted (second and third/fifth and sixth); the final 12th roll listed had it between the second and third notes - I can fix these.
- After the 12th roll, the sync gets off by 22 ms. You fix this in the middle of a roll, but it's probably better to make sure that the sync is properly.
- 67.726/68.213/(etc.): if you're following the synth melody, there's a 16th here. There are multiple places where you miss these.
- 76.563: see 32.453
- 83.049: I was expecting a run of 16ths with running-men in them for PR. They're not here. Sad face.
- 86.940: see 32.453
- 104.046/104.533/104.857/(etc.): missing 16ths for the bass drum, worth mentioning since it's the entire basis of your ending
- 109.316: you know what would be awesome? If you could step the filtered sounds that happen after the final crash. I haven't seen a chart do that before.

There are some mistakes that need to be addressed. Despite the huge amount of notes, this chart is not too bad. I'm still requiring the sync fix and the few missing notes according to your layering scheme. Conditional accept.

Worm Song (supermoe1985)
Your offset is slightly off; -0.032 seems more correct that the original -0.029 that I told you.

There are some slight hints of pitch relevancy in the introduction, but the chart itself has difficulty discrepancies, going from 8ths/16ths to almost nothing. Try to smooth it out a bit!

When you get to 15.032 seconds (which is where the piano and drums start coming in), try following multiple instruments at once to keep your difficulty constant. When the guitar comes back at 30.032, try to mix the guitar and the drums. Pay attention to the heavier accents (like 15.032, 22.532, etc) and account for them accordingly. You've got the foundation of your chart set, now you just need to build upon it. Fixes needed.