Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up: Opening & Part One by olc

i've played this through 6 or 7 times and i would do it again

chill

i played the who[le thing

omdb top 50 reviewing journey - #47

if somebody who hasn't played this map asks me if it's worth the time, i would ask them back if they like jazz. the map itself is pretty inoffensive, but it's not boring spending 31 minutes going through this map thanks to the variety in gameplay experience that the song choice provides. while i don't think it's anything too special mapping wise, being able to map something so consistent for such a long duration is still an achievement in and of itself so +0.5, 3.0 feels a tad too low for this map.

Despite that though, I still commend the effort of trying to map a song like this, and I don't think my time was wasted at all while playing this. It was still pretty fun.

The map feels kind of underdeveloped in how it represents a lot of the music, maybe due to a lack of ideas, maybe just a lack of experience from the mapper. A lot of sections feel fundamentally similar despite the song trying to convey different things with the same motifs. There's also some pretty haphazard spacing usage (especially of the cross-screen kind) which I assume mostly occurs for the sake of distributing objects in a nice way, and it contributes pretty strongly to why most of the map feels too homogeneous.

very good

astonishing

too long

Best map of 2021 :)