Fun Facts regarding "Oath Sign" (4/10/12):

* This is the opening theme for the anime "Fate/Zero," the recent
  prequel to "Fate/Stay Night."

* The singer is LisA; this is worth noting, because LisA is
  originally known to most for playing Yui's singing voice in
  "AngelBeats!".

* I knew this simfile would be popular, so though I work on any
  sim carefully, I took extra precautions with this one to make
  sure it turned out really well.

* This is the first simfile I've written in a long time that I
  had a ton of difficulty assigning numbers to difficulty levels.
  This is probably the aspect of the simfile that changed the
  most (greater than the number of section rewrites).

* This simfile starts at half BPM, and has several other appropriate
  slowdown sections (what you have to do on Expert in those sections
  will probably catch you off guard on a first play).

* LisA uses a LOT of vibrato in this song.  Therefore, you are
  going to see a bunch of rolls on Hard (which follows the lyrics
  a lot) and some on Expert (which follows the lyrics a little,
  but generally follows the electric guitar and drums).

* Expert sports a minimal amount of mines that actually force
  footlift; the rest are mostly for show.  Expert also follows the
  electric guitar in all sections where it's really used, and the
  lyrics where there isn't much else to follow.

* Hard follows primarily the lyrics, though there are a few 8th
  streams that kinda follow the drums or the electric guitar a
  little.

* Medium is rather like Hard, but it eliminates a lot of 8th stream,
  instead asking for two 8ths in a row in many places; there are
  also a few places where you hit 3 in a row.  That's why this
  ended up getting bumped up to a 7-footer.

* Easy was difficult to write (a problem I seldom have).  Going
  with nothing but 4th notes throughout the song would've sounded
  incredibly stupid since LisA sings mostly off-beat, so I had to
  pull out the blue notes, and as many as I had to use here, it
  immediately inflated the difficulty from its initial 4 to a 5.

* Novice uses no blue 8ths; it's all 4th notes the entire way
  through, and it works better on this difficulty than it would
  have to try to do it on Easy.

* Overall, it's my opinion that though it's a technical song (what
  with LisA singing off-beat), the charts turned out beautifully.