i might be wrong but i can't imagine there are going to be that many reviews to warrant them being spotlighted over comments, just by virtue of the fact that reviews are longer and take more effort to write than comments. comments are still important enough to be front and center on the homepage imo. in fact we should be able to see more than the most recent 20 comments, 20 isnt enough for me
some maps with scratches i like
bunch of fullmetal jacket maps: muya, yusomi, as well as yf and fanzhen which were mentioned
rustbell scream squad
yusomi beat juggling mix has some simple but super effective scratch usage
fanzhen fairy dancing in lake
and then fanzhen "Homura chan sorry, I become DJ" lmao
people who map elisha always put spinners on that long backspin(?) scratch in the middle. not necessarily "cool mapping" but ive always loved those
comments for shuu no hazama essentially amounted to "there is some cool stuff in here too bad it doesnt play well"
and i recall comment(s?) for chirality saying stuff like "this might have done well in other contests like aspire but this contest is for ranked." at the time they'd rank the winning entries for each song in one big set
i dont really remember super well but shuu no hazama placed like 7th or something? and i believe skystar gave it a decent score but also gave a judge impression rating of 10/10.
rrtyui's chirality placed relatively low for "playability issues" iirc
very cool
reminds me of some recent maps like schoolboy's tree frog, as well as mattay's lonely rolling star which i particularly love. somewhat freeform visuals but very musically aware, and with especially deliberate movement across the playfield. dunno if these mappers share the same inspirations or if it's just parallel developments. all this is very much up my alley though
i like that the website is so mapper centric. frontpage is just maps and comments, userpages dont have top plays or recent scores, everything is nice and concentrated, you dont have to scroll 10 miles to find what youre looking for. osu website is never gonna have a place where you can see the latest mapping-only-related comments
the 1/4 is technically mapped to hihats, but what the long streams truly do is foreground the vocals while excluding everything else. the mapper even takes care to make the streams fully smooth, with zero angles, so as to avoid emphasizing the drum rhythms
so it feels like it was mapped without music because the singer is only saying 1 syllable every 2 seconds, but there is a real musical perspective there. interpretively i much prefer skystars though
but maybe now that the feature is here ppl would be more motivated to write lengthier reviews than before idk
i might be wrong but i can't imagine there are going to be that many reviews to warrant them being spotlighted over comments, just by virtue of the fact that reviews are longer and take more effort to write than comments. comments are still important enough to be front and center on the homepage imo. in fact we should be able to see more than the most recent 20 comments, 20 isnt enough for me
some maps with scratches i like
bunch of fullmetal jacket maps: muya, yusomi, as well as yf and fanzhen which were mentioned
rustbell scream squad
yusomi beat juggling mix has some simple but super effective scratch usage
fanzhen fairy dancing in lake
and then fanzhen "Homura chan sorry, I become DJ" lmao
people who map elisha always put spinners on that long backspin(?) scratch in the middle. not necessarily "cool mapping" but ive always loved those
comments for shuu no hazama essentially amounted to "there is some cool stuff in here too bad it doesnt play well"
and i recall comment(s?) for chirality saying stuff like "this might have done well in other contests like aspire but this contest is for ranked." at the time they'd rank the winning entries for each song in one big set
i dont really remember super well but shuu no hazama placed like 7th or something? and i believe skystar gave it a decent score but also gave a judge impression rating of 10/10.
rrtyui's chirality placed relatively low for "playability issues" iirc
hello
hollow WANGS!!! yes
wow what a gorgeous song
didn't know the #2 ranked chad also made house music
Life is Game
just discovered this. so beautiful. goodbye omdb
very cool
reminds me of some recent maps like schoolboy's tree frog, as well as mattay's lonely rolling star which i particularly love. somewhat freeform visuals but very musically aware, and with especially deliberate movement across the playfield. dunno if these mappers share the same inspirations or if it's just parallel developments. all this is very much up my alley though
02:41:395 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13) - rotational awareness is my shit, from the same guy who mapped 02:05:362 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15) - in uncanny long arms. but i actually like this pattern more, especially this bit 02:45:653 (5,6,7) -
dont think ill ever get back into mapping but im feeling kind of inspired by this recent spate of maps
i like that the website is so mapper centric. frontpage is just maps and comments, userpages dont have top plays or recent scores, everything is nice and concentrated, you dont have to scroll 10 miles to find what youre looking for. osu website is never gonna have a place where you can see the latest mapping-only-related comments
wouldnt it still take some amount of work even with the data? but itd be nice if it happened
totally unexpected news, im a lot sadder than i thought i would be. feels so weird having to only look at maps through the osu website
goodbye omdb its been fun to write and read comments
also check out this map
the 1/4 is technically mapped to hihats, but what the long streams truly do is foreground the vocals while excluding everything else. the mapper even takes care to make the streams fully smooth, with zero angles, so as to avoid emphasizing the drum rhythms
so it feels like it was mapped without music because the singer is only saying 1 syllable every 2 seconds, but there is a real musical perspective there. interpretively i much prefer skystars though
always seated for 239hachiman
fun fact the bg is a single frame from the wachowskis speed racer https://youtu.be/3FtBAGMSw-I?si=6m5nCSXHkxTZpM_t&t=126 2:06
01:35:194 (1) - ive always loved this
didnt look in editor but it was fun to play
lokovodo truthers rise up
so true
very cute
so cool map man
part of me did want to ask him to change it. but then i saw him hit it first try on stream and i was like "ok skill issue i guess"