Z-I-v Summer Contest 2015 [Back to school, kiddies, the contest is over.]

Week 8 - [Scrabble]
and feedback

Achtung Panzer - Interesting song. I kinda like it
Good chart! There was one part where the rhythms felt awkward, but they probably weren't in reality. (the 16th triplets start on 4th notes, and then the song changes so that they start on 8th notes instead and then switch back)
This was good too. Maybe could be considered for just a 10. It wasn't THAT difficult.

Back To Life - Song's alright
Alright. It could've used some more bass when you went with some of the vocals. The bass is so strong and sometimes, it just wasn't there. The chart was decent, but the accent of the bass is missing in some places.
This was a good chart too, but like , I felt that some of the bass was not reflected in the chart.

Discloze - I'm dying to hear this song, just from listening to the song sample
Pretty good chart. No true problems with this one besides the spurts of 5 crossover 16ths

Dj Funktronic - Well, very gimmicky song. Not entirely sure that the song needed to run at 300 BPM for the majority.
No!!!! Not a Healing D Vision ending! Well, I guess it's also like Paranoia Survivor Max was that intentional? Aside from that, the chart's quality surprised me a bit. It was pretty good. Now to play this (on keyboard, until I FC it

Double Helix - Judging by the amount of points this already has, I'm expecting somethign really good from this.
Yep, Really really good. I'm definitely giving points. Only minor thing was the repetitive ness of the song towards the middle.
Love it. This song is really long, though.

Fixx - Alright song
I liked this chart. THere were a couple rhythms I felt were missing, but overall, really good. I like how you accented the drums when they came up.

Hold My Hand - Good song
I like this chart, too! There's so many good files this week! The initial 16th jump patterns were the only thing that felt off. Rhythms were great; everything else good.

Silverhawke's non 4/4 song - I'm having trouble enjoying this song. It's a bit too unorthodox, I guess.
Chart went well with the song, but song choice is killing it for me.

jyapyon magic (Scarz) - WHY ARE THERE SO MANY JUMPS IN AND ? About BPMs and stuff. I think towards the end, there should have been a stop or something because there was a distinct lack of music, but you had a jump there.
Pretty good. A couple rhythm inconsistencies at the beginning about the "happy!"s but those were corrected later on in the song. There's some odd rhythm choices towards the end: you continued your rhythm (which seemed copied and pasted) but the music changed. I guess you did mention you were not in the stepping spirit so, I guess it's understandable.


Jigsaw Hustle - The song sample intrigues me. *after playing* Hmmm...this song underwhelmed me a bit. Not much for a chart to go to aside from the violins and other instruments which seemed almost scarce (probably not the right word choice there
Still having a hard time describing my feelings for this one. The chart was better towards the end. After playing this a few times, I'm liking this more.
actually kinda liked this

Kangaroo Court - I don't know popular music much, but I think I've heard this song before...
Really good! The transitions between vocals and intermediary rhythms are perfect.
Very good as well! This is the Spork! I like to see!

Kiss My Lips
Pretty good. Only thing I didn't understand were the 16th streams, which seemed out of place.

Kuuki
Pretty good chart. I have mixed feelings about the song. I like the instrumentals, but the vocals are eh.

Magic Of Love
Good, too. Jeez this week is so great!

Renai Circulation
Great! Though I wonder why you stopped going to the vocals during the "chorus"
I was really confused by the challenge chart. I think I did something wrong. OK after playing this with the Reese's Circulation, it made way more sense. I'm not really appreciating the really twisting patterns of 16ths. Wait what were those 3 notes at once? That really confused me.
I'm willing to give this points just for

Still in Love With You
Nice easy chart! I like it!
Good Too!

Suzukaze...
The chart is alright, but like with CHRONO DIVER, I thought you followed certain rhythms (this time the vocals) a little too religiously which caused a lot of gaps.

Synchronized Love
Good job! some patterns seemed a little rigid and not really natural though. Rhythms selections were good though!

Te Axjik Lineir
Hmmm....not as good as I hoped. I didn't like the rhythm selections and I didn't think the slowdown was necessary. I think most of the choruses should have gone to the lyrics (for the most part) and gone to the strong 4th-8th drums in the background.

The DEEP STriker - This song could have definitely used a stop towards the end.
Good chart, but it didn't stand out too much.
Better chart

TRVP HVNDS
These aren't "bad steps" as you say in your simfile description. They're actually pretty good. This could probably be bumped up to and be replaced with a chart of an intermediate difficulty. 5 to 12 jump is pretty big.

Twinkle Wonderland - Ah I recognize this from DJ TOTTO's 4th KAC Selection. This was the only song from that remix that I wasn't familiar with.
Very streamy. I kinda wish the vocals were accented somehow during the chorus (if you can call it that)

Undercover Martyn
I liked the chart. Not really sure if all the stops were necessary though. There was one part where you had to make an awkward turn, but then I realized that just a bit later, you wanted us to footswitch!

Wicked Cross - Pretty good song, but I felt some gimmicks were in order for this song. The song changes drastically enough to warrant speed changes many times throughout the song, but I guess they aren't your taste, judging by your statement with your [Speed Changes] votes.
This should've been . could have some "understepped" areas at M9-13 and possibly from M19-M27, M35-M47, M62-66. Well, I guess covered some of that, but I feel that these areas should have been reflected in as well. So many missed speed changes, too! AUGH! What you had was good, though!

+4 Renai Circulation [vincentw]
peanut butter chocolate flavooooor
+4 THE DEEP STRIKER (DJ Myosuke Remix) [brunobg24]
+2 Magic of Love [ddrstepper]
+2 Te Axjik Lineir [ddrstepper]
Honestly I'd love to give +4's to both of your files this week but I don't have enough points and there's still points I wanna give out
+1 Twinkle Wonderland [ledgam3r1279]
+1 Kiss My Lips [DDRDAIKENKAI]
+1 Still In Love With You [Oni-91]
I am such a sucker for electro swing
HM: Igomoyos=omul no theme ni yoru buyobuyo sketch no kokoromi [Silverhawke]
HM: Discloze [gameboy573]
HM: Janpyon magic [Scarz]
HM: Hold My Hand [Astroman129]
HM: Nijiiro Yuenchi [mf32892]
HM: Fixx [darkanine]
HM: Suzukake Nanchara [Akira]
HM: WICKeD CROSS [brunobg24]
Kangaroo Court [Spork!]
dragged this one down quite a bit. was good.
TRVP HVNDS (Kurorak RMX) [Feraligatr]
Back To Life (Basslouder Remix) [Pandemonium X]
Synchronized Love J-Rap Jam (Muv Your Body Mix) [Vinylyarou]
DJ Funktronic [MRace2010]
Achtung Panzer [Spirit of Nightmare]
kuuki [Telperion]
Undercover Martyn [HealingDMax300]
Even though this is at the bottom of the list, I still thought this was decent. The stops were really rude though.

Back To Life (Basslouder Remix) - Similar to what mf said, there are too many instances in the chart where stepping to the bass would be much more preferable over stepping to anything that is not bass. And the audio quality is very noticably bad too (the 320kbps bitrate isn't going to fool me, no it won't).

じゃんぴょん☆まじっく - I don't know what character set you used for the title, but it's certainly not text that I normally use when typing Japanese and SM certainly had a problem recognizing it too (at least on my end). Copy/paste the title I use in this post into the .sm/.ssc files and that should work. As for the charts, they all suffered from repetitiveness due to too much copy/pasting and I agree with mf that there should be a stop at that one point in the song, but all the jumps and freeze arrows make the song really fun regardless.

恋愛サーキュレーション - I absolutely adore both versions of this song (peanut butter chocolate flavooooor lol). The only chart I liked, however, was the chart, despite the questionable use of brackets, but only because it goes well with the intended version of the song. I think the original version deserves a new chart as well, since the current chart doesn't really translate well when simply switching music files (except for measures 21-29; that part was awesome on both versions). Also, this song should be very laid back, and so I hate the fact that there are too many 16th notes in the chart as well.

THE DEEP STRIKER (DJ Myosuke Remix) - For a song that mentions the word "jump" a lot, I would expect all of the charts to contain a lot more . . . you know . . . jumps. And I don't think there should be any steps in measure 41 at all since there isn't any bass in that measure to back those steps up.