ZIv's Summer Contest 2011

I don't exactly get what you mean here. Do you mean the 222bpm section should have been harder, or?

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What exactly do you mean by that? Are the steps too easy, not varied enough, etc.?

My first, and probably not last, Week 3 entry:



http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewsimfile.php?simfileid=13587

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My simfile for Own Little World has been updated due to a offset error. Please get the new one if you can. Sorry ;

I don't mean that it should be harder, per se. While adding difficulty is a way to add to energy, like I described, in this context, energy is the way the steps are manifested; essentially, how the steps match the song. Your file is genuinely good; I think that people tend to skip over that part. I liked it overall. It was well-done. You did what you could with the Expert chart, making it a well-done chart, but...well, it's pretty difficult to describe. All I can say is that doing a song with "Hardcore" in the name isn't the place to make a well-done chart, but, rather, to try to make the people playing it fail (i.e. the Max and Paranoia series, and especially 888). Unlike a lot of the other charts done this week, a Challenge chart could actually have made this song better.


Anything but, actually xD A lot of simfiles can actually be made better by making them easier. This was one of them. It's a 100 BPM song with a very simplistic melody; anybody would think that some 16ths need to be added in order to make it lively enough to be a good file, right? Counterexample: Remember Pandy's submission last week, Diamond Dust? It got pretty good reviews; while it didn't necessarily win, it was praised for being, quote, "what a beginning Heavy player would love to play", endquote (that was DM Ashura, credit where credit is due :U ). Though it was simple, he gave it an A. What I'm saying there is that maybe the song didn't necessarily need to be an 8. I could see it as a better file if you stripped down on the 16ths and made it an easy 7. A good reference point for the simpleness that I'm talking about is the refrain: I had fun playing the refrain, not because it was rife with 16ths, but because it was well-done. If you imposed that onto the rest of the song, it would be better, IMO; remember, less is more.

Sorry if I'm not clear; if anyone has any other questions, just tell me. I'm happy to help.

Maestro Grithok S: Yeah: You didn`t write anything about my file
I like getting reviews

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Try the file again if you can. I changed the offset after asking a couple people. I think my game is just different then others. Hopefully its alittle better and I apologize for the off sync of the file

I don't think you can do that, the deadline's over.

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I didnt change the stepchart. All I did was raise the offset a pinch and that was it :s

And I recall people were give late entries last week. All I did was...raise my offset a tad.

You do realize even Auto-Adjust will give different offsets on different machines right? :/

I would, but, I judge them as-is. Your file was really, really good, it's just a housekeeping thing that irked me. No one really wants to take the time to play through a file in Edit Mode with Auto Adjust. And don't worry about it; I'm sure that you'll do just as well next week.


@DM Ashura: No I did not :I Though it's still better to say, "Look, I sent it through Auto Adjust and I did all I could to secure offset; if it doesn't on yours, that's your problem" or something to that extent. (The offset I got for Own Little World that works is -2.702, with Auto Adjust, BTW.)
Now you're making me paranoid; I synced all of my files with Auto Adjust, now I don't know if I'm being hypocritical if I tell people that their files are a bit offsync xD

ULTIMATE NINJA 4 OPENING THEME: Lucie. 7/10
I am very, very biased against Naruto. But this song reminded me of a Touhou theme remix, which is a good thing. I like Touhou. So yeah. The music didn't hint at the song being a 9, but rather, an 8. (I don't know what I'm talking about, disregard me. :U ) But anyway, the 16th clusters were a big wake-up call xD In any event, I think that this file was fairly good. Even if it was submitted after the deadline and, at the beginning, seemed a tad bit offsync, it was a relatively good file. :3

ヒャダインのカカカタ☆カタオモイ-C / ヒャダイン
BPM: 45-180
1 3 6 8
Simfile page -> http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewsimfile.php?simfileid=13591

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Wow, someone liked my file!

thanks for that review
By the way: why 9? The Expert chart is a 10
But whatever yeah Hard is a 9^^ I just listened the song and the Expert chart is always my first/real impression of the chart...
I have big troubles with making easy charts cause it feels like there are steps missing then...
Edit: Oh, and when I started uploading the file I was in time...then I had a black screen that said server load...
And when server was back an I uploaded it for a 2nd time I was like... 3 minutes late...
It`s really not my fault I tried my best submitting it in time.

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I use Beginner/Basic/Difficult/Expert/Challenge like in DDR SuperNOVA on for the names of the difficulties, not Novice/Easy/Medium/Hard/Expert like in ITG. So my Expert = your Hard.

Oh... I`m so used to ITG difficulties... I play DDR like only once a month and use the DDR names of the difficulties only when I`m talking about DDR.
But somehow I`m still calling the ITG novice difficulty beginner.... maybe cause I never played ITG on beginner and still have what I leared on DDR in my head? Sometimes it happenes that I call the Easy difficulty Basic.... mmh... I started ITG on Medium/Hard...so... idk.
I play all custom songs on oITG so I`m using ITG difficulty names.
sounds reasonable?

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FFFFFFF. I should have just left my simfile alone then. When i played it with the new offset it seemed abit off to me actually but I figured it was my own game since others said it was also abit off. Give or take this weeks theme im sticking with what it is. I just hope Own Little World is good to others.

Now I know better :B

^ These are handy to avoid confusion.

Ohhh... You guys are talking about Basic / Trick / Maniac, right?

Basic / Another / Maniac, get it right!

No, Standard / Difficult / Expert