TOI7 Qualifier feedback

TOI7 Qualifiers:

Beast mode (Pandemonium X)
- Feels like Pandy's usual leaner charting style melded together with modern DDR elements. Nicely done.
- Difficulty curve feels a little stagnant
- Nice flow for the most part; changes in direction feel natural and fun
- (Expert) Flow break on measure 55, may be awkward since it leads into a 16th gallop
- (Difficult) Flow break on measure 29-30; not a big deal since it's 4th/8ths but nonetheless worth noting
- Like the rhythm a lot on Difficult

Lyrith (dancingmaractus)
- Audio is blown out, lol
- (Challenge) Jack gallops are an interesting burst of difficulty in the beginning, but don't line up with the actual background rhythm. This continues with some of the 16th bursts later (e.g. m51). Overall the rhythms feel a little bit out of place for me
- (Challenge) Beginning section (~m20 ish) with freezes are a nice idea, but I personally would've mirrored it to avoid being too reliant on moving with the left foot only (This is actually done later around m32-ish, so props)
- (Challenge) Ambiguous flow out of the UD jump at m75, but otherwise pretty nice flow and patterning
- (Challenge) Great use of 8th jacks and freezes to complement the music. Personally I would've used jumps more though
- Similar sentiments for Expert chart

Shellfie (Gameoson)
- (Challenge) Feels like a 15, not a 14
- (Challenge/Expert) Great patterning and rhythm
- (Challenge/Expert) Nice use of freezes and jacks
- (Challenge/Expert) Alternating freezes and rolls felt creative
- (Challenge/Expert) Stagnant difficulty curve and feels repetitive due to the second half basically being mirrored from the first. If the patterning were more technical or demanding in the second half it could've helped solve this

Let It Rain (Braeden47)
- Weird place to start - directly when the song starts? (One measure in for Expert)
- (Challenge) Feels overcharted
- (Challenge) I liked the use of mines to accent the vocals, but the rhythm you followed and the way you represented the vocals kept changing and that bugged me. Felt messy
- (Challenge) 24ths shouldn't have been necessary to raise difficulty at the end. I get why you put it in, but the file was overcharted and it didn't need to be
- Nice flow and patterning for the most part
- (Expert) Rhythm and use of 16ths is kinda jank imo. Stick to a consistent rhythm
- (Expert) Flow break at m28

Policeman (SupremeX)
- Sync is late
- (Expert) Flow break at m14
- (Expert) Minor flow break from m23-24
- (Expert) Flow break into m27. This one's a little more problematic as it's in between the 16ths. Ditto with m28
- (Expert) m36 is either a footswitch or a flow break. If it's the former, it feels out of place as it isn't used anywhere else and is immediately followed by a similar one that isn't a footswitch
- (Expert) m47 leads you sideways at the end, which feels unnatural. This could be solved easily by mirroring the last triplet horizontally
- (Expert) Some ambiguous patterning out of jumps, e.g. m15
- Overall actually quite nice compared to previous files I've looked at from you. Rhythms are pretty good and the patterning is somewhat of an improvement

Nightbird (VanEden)
- Really nice file as usual
- (Challenge) Mine usage is a bit confusing at times. Why are mines used in arrows that the player doesn't even step on in preceding segments when going into a new segment? I mean the ones that aren't even in proximity of an upcoming pattern. I do like how they complement the music though
- Love the rhythms
- Stylistically, just one niggle - for the sake of symmetry/cohesion, I would have charted the up-right gallop in m37 as something else, just because all other gallops in the section are alternated
- (Difficult) Similarly looks great. Love the jumps

Freedom Dive (	_|/-\43D)
- Sync seems a bit early
- (Expert) Flow break on m37
- (Expert) (section starting on m43) I would have placed every second set of gallops on a measure as starting on the 4th beat instead of the 8th beat; the rhythm rn feels off
- (Expert) Either a sideswitch or flow break on m46, and doing that at 222bpm does seem a little uncomfortable
- (Expert) Some uncomfortable/ambiguous entry on m53. If the player doublesteps out of the freeze to the up arrow, this isn't a problem. This flow is mirrored with m57. I'd just extend the freezes on m57
- Stop feels a little out of place
- (Expert) Pretty well charted otherwise. An enjoyable chart
- (Difficult) Ambiguous flow on m5
- (Difficult) Similar flow issue to freezes on Expert in m20, but it doesn't matter as much this time since it's just a 4th at 111
- (Difficult) Flow break at m82
- (Difficult) Similar impressions to Expert otherwise

Connective (vonafroa)
- Gallops do feel a bit out of place at times. I think they could've been better integrated
- Ending 16ths shouldn't be 16ths; take a second look at it
- Flows really nicely! Rhythms are pretty good aside from some of the gallops as well. Would be fun to play. The stepjump patterns near the end are nice

In Your EyEs (Marten)
- (Expert) Nicely charted, with great flow and fun-looking twists
- (Expert) Great cohesiveness to the chart
- (Expert) Nice difficulty curve
- (Expert) Personally would've used a few more jumps and filled in some of the empty portions. This is subjective opinion though
- (Difficult) Ending and stamina pushes this one to a 9/13 imo

1001 -ESCAPE- (ForcedNature)
- (Expert) Nicely charted. Interesting rhythms from the song, and an 8th rhythm shift too. Ballsy song choice- (Expert) Would've personally put more jumps in as accents
- (Expert) Difficulty curve does feel a little stagnant. Playing around with harsher patterns or using more of the song's rhythms perhaps could help
- (Difficult) Looks reasonable. Similar thoughts to Expert. No complaints here

La Primavera (DigitalBasic)
- Nice song choice
- A little overdone with the karaoke stepping; may be awkward to play with the quantizations
- Nice flow and patterning; seems very fun on that front
- Difficulty curve is a little weird, but patterning variety makes it a non-issue

Dance Around the World (SomethingRandom)
- Sync seems drifty, but I guess that's the nature of old songs
- Minor flow break at m9, since generally arrows should still be alternated out of freeze arrows. Not much of an issue though
- Flow ambiguity out of jump at m48. Again not a big deal since both cases here are 4ths
- Patterning feels a bit choppy; it feels to me like it's made of puzzle pieces of patterns locked together more than it just rolling out and flowing. But it flows nicely with few exceptions and the use of jumps and freeze arrows help break that up some. A word of advice - I'd think about how difficult it is to do certain crossover, scooby or spin patterns and have them scale throughout the song or correspond to build-up or peaks in the music.

Brain child (tamtamino)
- (Expert) Liking the intentional doublestep section starting around m20 (although usually how I'd do it is with freeze arrows like the section near the end)
- (Expert) Not really a fan of the extended spin in m34-5; it has to be either spun or doublestepped and with 16ths that may make it uncomfortable
- (Expert/Difficult) Feels like a nice throwback to old DDR charts
- (Difficult) Those jacks are... something
- (Difficult) Patterns towards the end look like they'd be fun to spin
- (Difficult) Feels a little too easy for a 7. Maybe justified with the jacks. Dunno, old scale suck

Tank! (TonyAkita)
- Sync feels late
- (Expert) Like the rhythms, but they could've been harder in certain places
- (Expert) Patterning ffeels a little bland. Places with step-jump-step patterns could've been straight jumps, or places where the melody progresses could've been charted with more movement than placing repeated notes on a single arrow
- (Expert) Objectively a fine chart. Flows well
- (Difficult) Nothing much else to say. Nice chart

I Don't Wanna Get Hurt (Nezemarth)
- Sync drifts towards earliness
- (Expert) Inconsistencies in how elements are charted, both pattern and rhythm wise, bug me. Sometimes things will be very undercharted, sometimes they'll go ham. I can't really tell what's being charted
- (Expert) I like the second half with the gallops a lot
- (Expert) This is a 9
- (Difficult) Similar impressions, but since the charting is lighter the problems aren't as bad

Do You Wanna Come Over (chewi)
- Audio is slightly blown out
- (Expert) Seems closer to a 5, maybe 6 than a 7
- (Expert) Nice flow and patterning, but it does feel a little undercharted, like there could be some jazzed up steps or 16ths here

On A Roll (hooky)
- Audio is slightly blown out
- I feel like 8/11 would be more apt given the use of 16ths and the stamina requirement with 400+ notes
- Solid patterning and rhythms, although the 12ths felt like a little too hard of a difficulty spike
- Stagnant difficulty curve due to similar patterning and rhythms in both verses/choruses

Good Evening (ledgam3r)
- (Expert) Wait, this isn't a DDRDAIKENKAI file?
- (Expert) Nice flow and patterning, although a little heavier on karaoke stepping than I'd like
- (Expert) Good use of freeze arrows
- (Difficult) Similar impressions to Expert