Z-I-v Battle Royale 2020

CAN'T DANCE (chewi)
- Good sync
- Audio is slightly blown out?
- This may be the first time I've seen footswitches this slow lol
- Nice patterning symmetry and attention to detail
- Mini jacks work well
- Nice patterning makes chart distinctive despite being easy

Candyman (VanEden)
- Sync is slightly early?
- 75 to 150 transition felt a little jarring
- Good patterning attentiveness, goes with vocals well
- A few places where jumps would've matched better than 8th streams
- 24th burst is an odd spike in difficulty
- Vocals at the end feel too weak to chart, freezes may have matched better

Catch Our Fire (STARDOM Remix) (Mr. Music)
- Good sync
- Patterning feels like it could match the music a little more at times, e.g. second half of m7 could've changed direction of staircase to match shift in melody. However, patterning itself is generally quite enjoyable
- Similar thoughts on rhythms; there were places where the kicks were more prominent than the chanting and yet the chanting was charted instead
- Some missed opportunities for 16ths in the middle
- Generally great flow

CHAMELEON (TonyAkita)
- I'll ignore sync issues because of the mp3/ogg thing
- m27 seems a bit weird
- Unclear reason to use spins
- Good flow, generally good patterning
- Slowdown actually works pretty well
- Missing a 'wow' factor; cool patterning bits here and there though

Confession (darkanine)
- Good sync
- Nice gallops and freezes in the beginning
- Interesting gimmicks
- Enjoyable patterning; 16ths on the same foot might be a pain though
- 32nds feel like too much of a spike in difficulty for a 14
- Mines don't feel like they go to enough in the song to exist

Do What You Want (t7r)
- Good sync
- Clean patterning; goes to the song very well
- Feels like you held back on the difficulty a bit, like this could've easily been a 15 or 16 if you filled in the rhythms completely
- Excellent flow except for entry into jump at m49 and 16ths in m62
- I like the sneaky spin near the end

Dui Bu Qi, Zhi Shi Hu Ran Hen Xiang Ni (K-Step)
- Good sync
- Clean patterning, goes to the song well
- Doesn't stand out to me particularly
- 16ths add an interesting flair to the song

Half as Much (Braeden47)
- Good sync
- Weird place to start the chart
- 24ths feel overdone - they should just be 16ths
- What's the point of the slowdowns?
- Flows, but feels a bit weird at times (no change in direction)
- Some 16ths don't go to anything
- Interesting use of freezes to mark speed changes
- Abrupt cut

I AM THE BEST (ledgamer)
- Good sync
- Mine use at m30 is inconsistent with how other mines play out
- Gimmick use is appropriate, accents the song well
- Sensible patterning

Infection (Pandy)
- Good sync
- Nice use of anchors and crossovers in the first half to go with the melody
- Streams are quite the difficulty spike
- Good patterning and flow

Inferno (HDM300)
- Good sync
- 8ths would've suited the beginning better
- Gimmicks match the song nicely
- 12 seems more apt; lack of extended streams and 16th bursts aren't flanked with anything hard

IT'S A SMALL WORLD (Ducking Hardcore MIX) (ForcedNature)
- Good sync
- Nice use of crossovers and jumps to match the energy of the song, although some of the freezes felt a bit off
- 15 imo
- ...Interesting remix
- Props to charting full SP and DP difficulties

Jaguar ningen no junan (PenTA_)
- Good sync
- Bits like the LDRU jump RDLU patterns are crafty but not really clear which foot is correct or not
- m49 ambiguous entry
- Good use of footswitches
- Mines or some form of notation may have helped with the above three points
- Difficulty curve feels a bit frontloaded with not enough differentiation patterning wise in the latter half vs first half; I think the first half could've been toned down a little bit. Not every part of the song needed to be super scooby heavy
- I live for technical shit

Knockout (EmeraldX)
- A little late?
- Stepjumps are enjoyable and match the beat
- Good patterning and rhythms; I would've gone with something similar
- Feels like it's too long; I would've used a shorter cut to avoid the chart feeling like it drags

Laughin' Muffin (vonafroa)
- Good sync
- I would generally avoid movements from up to down after a jump like in m6 and m46 (UR jump to down) unless they're telegraphed and it's intentional; putting the right foot to down is the more intuitive movement there
- I would've personally went with blue note syndrome and had the song speed up to 182 right after the stop
- Jumps accent the samples well
- Nice flow for the most part
- I would've toned down the middle section, since as is that's like the hardest part of the song besides the stream at the end

Mou Ichido Luminous (clanner99)
- Good sync
- I meant to mention this to you before, but 'doublesteps' (flow that doesn't completely involve alternating your feet) aren't necessarily a bad thing - they just need to have intent and a clear pattern to them. I believe this is the style you refer to as 'Manual.'
- Thus, my issue was that the doublesteps in your charts didn't seem to follow a clear pattern, tendency, or intent.
- I liked this chart quite a bit more than your Week 1 submission. The rhythms were better and the patterning seemed a little more deliberate
- The run at m61 is very rude imo. An unfair spike in difficulty. It's too fast to feasibly doublestep and so it forces you to move uncomfortably for a Lv15 chart

Night Drive (shorty)
- Good sync
- Nice flow and patterning! I like the inclusion of jacks to build difficulty. But I would've liked to see things like crossovers as well to help build the difficulty even more, especially in the end
- Good freeze section
- ESP is easily a 12 imo, if not 13 due to the sustained 16th runs

Noctilucence (KexMiX)
- Good sync
- Interesting choice to not include jumps in any of the chart, but the chart actually feels just as natural without them
- Natural patterning
- Good use of freezes to accent synths
- Not sure why you transitioned from 16ths to 8ths midway through the first synth section
- Tricky but accurate rhythms
- Would've liked to see some more candles or crossovers near the end to build up the difficulty progression, but personal bias
- Props for charting full SP and DP difficulties

Open Your Heart (Nezemarth)
- Sync feels alright
- Good flow
- Good patterning, but nothing that stands out to me that much
- Feels like it blends in a bit with the other '11-13 to old pop music' files I've seen
- Props for charting full SP and DP difficulties

Physical (ohaiimian)
- Good sync
- Very smooth patterning
- Imo a 12; the 8th runs are too complex and frequent
- Cut is a little long, that paired with the lack of variety in patterning makes the chart feels like it drags a bit. Still, good chart

Prove Your Love (Random)
- Good sync
- Good use of 16ths and freezes, adds some character to the chart
- More memorable than your previous submissions
- Doublestep at m15
- Like I said in Laughin' Muffin, when following up a corner jump with another down/up arrow it's more intuitive for the arrow on left/right to follow it, so keep that in mind when working with jump flow (see m19-20 transition)
- Generally enjoyable patterning and flow, good job
- File should've ended at m55 or so; this ending feels weird like night of knights ESP
- 12 imo, not 11

Run The Night (SupremeX)
- Late sync
- Weird place to start the chart
- Flow breaks here and there that feel unintentional
- Focus of the chart feels unclear
- Lack of charting of anything other than the vocals feels like a missed opportunity for patterning like gallops

SEITEN NO TERIYAKI (Oni-91)
- Thanks for starting the file at a reasonable spot this time lol
- An 18 from Oni is rather unexpected
- This is weird to say, but there are quite a few spots I think some tasteful gimmicks would've made better (e.g. m25-27)
- I said this in the feedback of Laughin' Muffin as well, but when implementing patterning like m45's DR jump -> U it's generally more intuitive for the foot on R to go to U, so be careful
- Doublestep on m65
- I like the small lateral on m75-76 resolved through jumps
- Tbh I think this might actually be a 17, but it would be hard to say without having played it on pad
- Chart has lots of personality

Time (gameboy573)
- Good sync
- Clean charting, flows great for the most part and patterning makes sense
- 13 imo
- Flow break at m27
- I would've liked to see the patterning near the end actually follow the swing rhythm

Touch the Sky (tokiwa Remix)
- Sync is a little early?
- Freeform patterning works to the chart's favor; very enjoyable
- Extremely Ace-era DDR-esque in a good way
- Subjectively not a huge fan of the karaoke stepping, but the patterning is good so I don't care
- Excellent crossovers and 16ths during the drop
- Some 16ths felt weird towards the end

WWW (brunobg)
- Very slightly early?
- Crossover stepjumps are awesome; they match the vocals well
- Good rhythms, I appreciate that you implemented 24ths
- Solid, but the chart drags a bit towards the end mainly due to the lack of difficulty buildup and repetition of patterns
- Bits like 16th gallop at m48 should be 24th?