Incardine's Ratings, ITG Division


In The Groove is rapidly rising in popularity for it's exceptional difficulty and new twist-ups on the traditional DDR play which has started to grow stale since the lack of changes to the formula since DDR MAX2. It's odd, then, that the step style is not growing in competitions. However, here's what there is.

A NEW RAY OF LIGHT:
jammitch! can always be counted on to make good stuff (Even if he hasn't been as tourney-winning as he was during OSC3 and 3+). Nostalgia trip, too!
SONG 14/15
Sound File Quality 2/2 Sounds excellent. Crisp and clean as well-formatted trance should be.
Creativity of song choice 3/4 Video game music typially isn't too creative... But Sonic Triple Trouble's an obscure gem. Win!
Edit (length and cut quality) 4/4 Smooth and beautiful edit.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 Piano Trance always seems to fit, huh? Just mixy enough to be clever, but just straight enough to fit.
GRAPHICS 15/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 Neat mix of sprites and shops. Nostalgic yet new feeling.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 Train! And again, beautiful mix of sprites and shops.
STEPCHARTS 52/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 7/8 The switch-off is great and feels natural to the song like few such patterns I've ever done before... But were the mines really needed on Light mode?
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 10/11 See above question on mines, though they feel a little more reasonably placed. Other than that, I loved this chart. Beautiful style switches that progress smoothly to the song.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 10/15 Too many sixteenths for ITG's heavy. Felt more like a 9-footer than an 8 by far.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 13/15 An interesting mix of Euphoria and Queen of Light, but much slower than either to validate only being a 10. A couple of the mine patterns seemed to be pushing ludicrous, though...
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 8/10 Honestly? I was damn impressed until I got up to Heavy, which ended up being a little too clusterfuck. Challenge made up for it mostly, and nostalgia alone makes this one a play-again for me.
TOTAL SCORE 88/100

A VOICE SPOKE TO ME (Helix Mix):
BASS. 'n' drums.
SONG 11/15
Sound File Quality 2/2 I'm not sure if I can fault this one or not...
Creativity of song choice 3/4 Speed Drum 'n' Bass is another genre that I see extremely often, but the minimalism of this one gives it a notch.
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Great length, but sudden cutoffs bad.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 If anything, I think this one feels a little TOO minimalist for ITG's style, but I haven't played Bloodrush so I can't be sure.
GRAPHICS 11/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 2/3 Not bad, a nice mix of fonts, but the background of the banner feels fully unpolished
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 1/4 Similar is good. TOO similar is bad.
STEPCHARTS 51/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 8/8 Good twists on a basic pattern, and you made it feel like a five was the suitable base difficulty without relying on eighth notes. Fairly freestlyle friendly too!
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 7/11 A few of the progressions felt off, causing you to run a rut of one thing for a little too long a little too often in my opinion.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 Borderline 10-footer by fiat of similarity of other pushing-the-limit 9-footers in the speed genre and letting up even less frequently than those ones.
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 11/15 Nonstop eighth notes with minimal breaks (even the slowdown is a giant chain of sixteenths!) is pushing it by quite a bit, even with the number of style switch-ups and twists you throw in (I'm glad I don't have a bar when it comes to this song). Good use of a single pair of mines though.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 13/15 At least you switched it up a good bit, going between nonstop sixteenth chains in the fine tradition of Delirium, but faster than anything I've ever seen in ITG, to freeze eighth-note chains with several hands thrown in. Also, incredibly precise mines... Well let's just say I don't think anything in ITG3's going to be this insane.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 9/10 Honestly, this one reminded me of a slightly harder version of Million Miles From Home in OSC3 ('cept the challenge set). A positive reminder, overall, though you're pushing the difficulty limit, something I normally am not a fan of.
TOTAL SCORE 82/100

ASTEROID:
Insert Witty Text Here.
SONG 13/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 4 points for the triplet scheme. Weird timings are fun. :)
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 It sounded great and progressed well, but it was pushing the time a good bit too far.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 I could picture this one on an ITG machine.
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 A neat psychadelic effect... Which suits the song.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 Eh... I'm not sure how well the background relates, honestly.
STEPCHARTS 39/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 2/3 Too easy for a 5 IMO.
Basic: Fun and technical merits 3/8 Far too many unneeded (i.e. one beat length) freezes which you can ignore. Generic feeling set overall...
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 6/11 Handplants do not belong on a  Standard chart, nor mines. IT's sad because other than that I loved this chart, and if you were going for something easier this would be  great Heavy set.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 6/15 A long eighth note stream on one jump = NO. This set simplified from in many areas and didn't in too many others. The difficulty felt inconsistent, weaving between an easy 9 and an 11, and this chart ended up closing in a generic jackhammer set.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 13/15 You know how I said I could picture this song on an ITG machine? Well, the hands are a little more insane than what might go on an ITG machine (that I've seen), but the tricky triplet scheme, ending switch-up, and mine art all remind of ITG's schticks... Perhaps a little TOO much.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 5/10 Honestly? This file failed to impress me heavily on any real level except for the Challenge chart and the sheer beauty of the edit.
TOTAL SCORE 71/100

BAD BOY (AvM Remix):
And an OSC3 file makes a comeback. Sorta.
SONG 13/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Not a bad choice for a remix.
Edit (length and cut quality) 4/4 Solid cut too, it's kinda nice that you chose to push the low end of the time instead of the high end.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 3/5 ... But I'm sorry, this song is one of those that seems to fit ITG, but doesn't on closer analysis.
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 Nice looking.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 Too similar to the Banner...
STEPCHARTS 32/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 2/3 Only a 4-footer at 2 points, this should probably have been marked a 3.
Basic: Fun and technical merits 3/8 Blah chart, basically, other than Mines. On LIGHT.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 4/11 Mines and hands. On Standard. And the hands NOT on Challenge. The rest of it's pretty plain-jane Karaoke steps which don't get too interesting.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 10/15 Hands. On Heavy. And NOT on Challenge. You lose, though the rest of the chart was fine.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 I'm damn close to calling it a 10, but other than the 32nds it compares best with Dynamite Rave so...
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 4/15 WAY, WAY, WAY too heavy on the mines, inconsistent steps, and I cannot find any beat that matches some of the sequences you use.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 2/10 Too many mines, too many hands in the wrong charts, too unsuited a song choice.
TOTAL SCORE 60/100

BE PRINCESS:
OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
SONG 11/15 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Sound File Quality 2/2 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Creativity of song choice 3/4 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also fadeout and too long in the intro
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also not even close yet really far in.
GRAPHICS 13/15 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also cute yet implicative.
Background: Includes title 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Background: Size and formatting 1/1 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 2/4 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also couldn't you have used the same girl? Waaay too dissimilar.
STEPCHARTS ???/60 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Basic: Fun and technical merits 5/8 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also this chart didn't get to me as much as the others... Too many long one-note chains.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Standard: Fun and technical merits 9/11 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also the only chart where I found the stops annoying.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 14/15 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES  also I'm kinda surprised... This one did have a couple minor annoying spots, but felt squeaky-clean all over.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 15/15 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also I don't know why I liked this one as much as I did, but I did. A lot.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 9/10 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also sometimes it's the charts that make the entry. This will make great "OH GOD MY EARS BUT MY FEET LOVE IT" material to use in the future.
TOTAL SCORE OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES also 88 / 100


BREATHE:
Not a squeaky anime happy hardcore mix.
SONG 14/15
Sound File Quality 2/2 Sounded fine.
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Honestly, this particuar song choice seems fairly creative - drum-centric dance rap isn't something I see too often. Downtemponess makes it more creative for ITG.
Edit (length and cut quality) 3/4 Too short, but built up well with a neat finish with only one obvious cutting artifact right at the end.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 I'd say that the rhythms have a bad case of 'sound more complex than they really are', but other than that, it fits ITG well.
GRAPHICS 13/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 1/3 Copy-paste! This is the background, cropped and unchanged.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 Nice looking 'hardcore' background.
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 OH GOD SQUEAKY ANIME HAPPY HARDCORE MIXES oh wait wrong file
Basic: Fun and technical merits 5/8 Given your standard chart, I feel this one could have done well to be a little simpler.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 11/11 Very fun chart, with a nice case of 'don't underestimate what Standard players can do on slower songs'.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 13/15 This chart could easily have used just a little more matching to the beat at a few spots. Other than that, excellent.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 11/15 Tip for players: The rhythms sound more complex than they really are. Adjust. It sounds a bit off on the first play, but closer looking makes it feel right. Perhaps a bit too varied in steps.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 9/10 An impressive off-the-norm selection. Needs some polish though.
TOTAL SCORE 86/100

CHEAP TRICK KINDA GIRL:
Blah blah blahde-dah.
SONG 14/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Obscure pop isn't something you see so often...
Edit (length and cut quality) 3/4 Ends up getting dragged-on and repetitive as often as not.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 Fits ITG quite neatly, bascially.
GRAPHICS 15/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 Photo with text... Not the most amazing thing ever, but
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 The old "background changes to the lyrics" opener is a neat touch, along with the videos. :)
STEPCHARTS 43/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 5/8 A... Fairly blah chart, basically. I didn't feel much good or bad about it (the eighth notes and step-step-step-jump bits came across as suitable).
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 6/11 Triplets bad on Standard. Step-Jump-STep eighths also bad on standard.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 12/15 Still excessive on the mines (many of them, if you're doing the steps even remotely right, are irrelevent), but not quite as repetitive, with a better mix of parts.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 8/15 Way, way, way too many mines - minefield gimmacks don't work well with slow pieces generally, and this is no exception. Steps got repetitive too. Nice use of spinning and turns and okay use of hands though.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 5/10 Good use of background movies, but an overall very blah file.
TOTAL SCORE 77/100

DAYS DREAMING:
For some reason, I keep thinking of the Dunce Cap smiley when I hear the sample. <:D
SONG 14/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Sampling Masters picks are often just kind of creepy. This is one of those ones.
Edit (length and cut quality) 4/4 Fits about right.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 Surprisingly fitting for 'downtempo easy cute', though you don't see that often in ITG.
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 Cute, andneatly different from the background using similar source images.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 Shopped-up image with okayish text... Not too bad looking, though not on theme.
STEPCHARTS 43/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 7/8 The only issuesome moment is the lone, idiosyncratic three-step-on-one-note. Other than that, plain newbie-friendly novice steps for the fun.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 8/11 A few issues here. First off, you force the player to twist to some pretty strange angles, facing away from the screen at a few points - and stay there for fairly long periods without offering an easy glance back at the screen without double-stepping like nuts. There's also two idiosyncratic-feeling mini-gallops.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 9/15 Cute, on-balance, removes the idiosyncratic mini-gallops and freeze (o.O;), but ends up feeling rather boring honestly, in spite of some decent twisting.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 7/15 Three complaints. First off, this chart has about eighty unnessesary freezes - if it's less than a full beat (approximate), you can just tap the note and get an OK anyways, making said freeze pointless. Also, some of your steps are sixteenths with one foot planted - annoying. Finally, you end up getting extremely twisty, spinning around back and fourth enough that my dry run got me dizzy.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 6/10 Cute, cute, cute. Good but not great, with steps that tend to get boring. If this were a mix, this would be the weird throwoff song.
TOTAL SCORE 78/100

DEVESTATION:
Not so devestating.
SONG 10/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 3/4 Not bad, not bad, it's an interesting pick.
Edit (length and cut quality) 1/4 Way, way, way too long.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 This feels excelently fitted for ITG - or would with some mix editing.
GRAPHICS 12/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 2/3 I don't get it.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 2/4 Ooh, dark! NEXT.
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 4/8 Mines in Basic sets BAD. Freezes NOT NEEDED.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 6/11 Hands on Standard  BAD.  Sixteenth two-note chains ALSO BAD. Also, the unnessesary slowdown in the middle really gets annoying here.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 9/15 These steps felt much better... Until you started going between on and off the pattern so often as to make the chart as a whole confusing.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 1/3 That is not a 10. At minimum that is a 12.
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 12/15 Yeah, this one got much more ITG-like, other than the 'hold one arrow then double-hand' in the minefield... The 32nd notes felt rather gratuitious too, and the quad-hit is mildly questionable. Your best chart in my opinion, regardless.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 7/10 Not one of these charts is issue-free, though none are exceptionally bad either. This one feels like you focused on ITG's giant gimmacks and overapplied them.
TOTAL SCORE 70/100

DON'T CHA:
How this connects to furries, I don't know.
SONG 12/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Not bad, synthpop.
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Sudden artifact-y cut.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 Honestly? This is a sold if not perfect fit for ITG.
GRAPHICS ???/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 2/3 Clever mix of sexy and photoshoppy... But perhaps a little too much going on.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 1/4 Oh god I didn't realize that was furry in the Banner :( Too similar by the way
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 5/8 The eighth notes nesssesary and the steps kinda... Well honestly I don't feel I could have done better, but.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 8/11 I don't know why I didn't find these fun, they feature many tricks I like, but some points just kinda ruined it for me, like the couple minor copies from heavy.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 14/15 Much, much more fun, with a plain straight-eighths set that neatly mixed up while sticking to plain karaoke.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 7/15 Unnessesary sixteenth runs for the annoyance. Those completely ruined the chart with unnessesary annoying difficulty.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 6/10 I just don't get it. Some song picks sound like they'll work great, then it turns out they don't.
TOTAL SCORE 77/100

EMERALD SWORD:
I AM ANGRY, HERE IS DRAMATIC FANTASY ROCK TO PROVE IT!
SONG 13/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Speed rock is not a generic genre for ITG even considering Machinae.
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 If anything, this one was a little too short for me, with a few cut artifacts thrown in.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 It is, however, a fine fit for ITG's style, if a campy one.
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 2/3 The Rhapsody logo just doesn't seem to work with the other elements to me.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 Campy music video for the win!
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 8/8 The steps are basic and keep well to the song's energy, avoiding unneded complexity while providing a few hints of air and freeze steps.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 9/11 Unneeded mines for the lose, and I could have gone without the Up-Up-Left or similar eighth note patterns. Doublestepping like that just kind of feels silly on Standard.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 13/15 I would have expected more sixteenths, if  I thought you were a bad author. The nonstop eighth chains manage a neat semblance of loose technical accuracy without getting annoying, which is fun. The mines at the end of each freeze feel extraneous.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 12/15 Gets a little too heavy on the jump chains, in my opinion, and I question the technical matching... It feels somehow off.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 8/10 Fun, fun, and campy.
TOTAL SCORE 89/100

ENDLESS JOURNEY:
Finally a generic trance entry!
SONG 11/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 3/4 Trance does not go too far forcreativity.
Edit (length and cut quality) 1/4 Fadeout for the lose.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 Honestly, this fits ITG excellenty.
GRAPHICS 13/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 1/3 I don't know what looks so ugly about this, but it looks pretty damn ugly.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 I think it's the artist name, because the background lacks it and looks fine.
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 8/8 Yay for keeping it simple while offering just enough twists to be fun for a Light player or freestyler, without eighth notes, hands, mines, or anything. :)
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 9/11 The steps are idiosyncracy-filled - were you goin but VERY freestyle friendly.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 12/15 Whoa I did not see those hands coming. They're unusually fast ones for Heavy, as well, with little recovery time. Other than that, a fine, fine chart, though pushing So Deep style to ludicrous levels. Some people will need a bar for this.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 12/15 This chart went from jump insanity to reminding me of Pump It Up, or more easily comparable, Euphoria.I enjoyed though I'm sure there's many who won't, and there were a few technical inacuracies I spotted.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 9/10 Sometimes, trance just works. This is one of those times.
TOTAL SCORE 86/100

GRADATION:
Not to be confused with the DDR Extreme 'default' song. :)
SONG 11/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 2/4 pop'n != creative.
Edit (length and cut quality) 3/4 It's the pop'n edit, though it works.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 Tribal Pop is a strange but workable fit.
GRAPHICS 11/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 1/3 The photoshopped-on text job just doesn't do it for me.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 2/4 See above issue.
STEPCHARTS 82/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 5/8 I honestly felt that this chart was TOO jump-heavy much of the time.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 9/11 These steps felt a little plain early in, but heat up fairly neatly as the song progresses... I kind of wish you'd turned the bass up a bit wince you were following it though. :)
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 11/15 Most charts build UP on the difficulty, or are consistent throughout... But this song seems to slow DOWN on it as it progresses. I found this highly strange and nonintuitive.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 15/15 Back to building up, with a mix of hand-heavy insanity (including a couple 'false' hands) and sixteenth-note chains at a manageable but still challenging speed. This song neatly fits into it's difficulty rating and creates natural-feeling steps.Win.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 8/10 Some charts just fit, and the Challenge chart drives this one up to a fun and solid entry. Honestly, I could picture it on an ITG machine with some tweaks to the Heavy chart and better graphics.
TOTAL SCORE 82/100


HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW:
OH GOD DDR REMIX HAPPY HARDCORE sorta
SONG 15/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 I wouldn't have seen THIS one coming.
Edit (length and cut quality) 4/4 The cut just works.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 Uh.... It's a remix of an old DDR song, I have to say yeah it fits.
GRAPHICS 15/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 3/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 The banner is pretty simple and looks nice.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 Perhaps... Too simple, initially, then the visuals just become crack. Remind me never, ever, to play this song while stoned.
STEPCHARTS 48/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 9/12 Starts nice and simple, randomish but fitting quarter cycles that avoid getting annoying... Then suddenly, it cuts in with down-down-down-downupdown-down-down and similar patterns, which are... Frankly quite annoying.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 12/17 Unneeded mines that don't influence the steps annoy me. The measures-of-eighths are kind of annoying at times, too.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 18/22 Sometimes, mines are good, say when they get that clever mix of shadow steps, rather than just being annoying. This is one of those times, I'm glad to say. Starts and ends a little too slow though.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 8/10 Some songs are just addictive crack, and this is one of them.
TOTAL SCORE 86/100

I WANNA TALK ABOUT ME:
Yeah, there's a reason you do not see much country in DDR.
SONG 8/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Country is certainly not a common selection...
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Waaaaaaaay too short, with an audible cut artifact and a cutoff that seems too short.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 1/5 ... But that's because dancing to it in the DDR/ITG style doesn't work. At all. The rhythms are somewhat improvised and swung, and just don't suit a beat.
GRAPHICS 12/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 2/3 Not bad, image of the artist with poorly placed text on a generic background...
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 1/4 ... But using the same exactbackground with a poster doesn't impress. At all.
STEPCHARTS 30/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 2/8 Are they on beat or are they off beat? Sometimes you have to choose, and failing to do so here makes for extremely annoying steps.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 4/11 The reason Country doesn't work is because it's typically impossible to place on a beat. That's what makes it beautiful, to some extent, but that's also why these steps, which stick solely to eighths, are an exercise in annoyance.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 7/15 Trying to match those kind of beats just doesn't work as well as it seems, though following the guitar and bass helps a little (but is nonintuitive to a song that is all about the lyrics)
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 5/15 There's good mine use, there's bad mine use, then there's mine use that makes me hate the step artist. Your 'one sixteenth after the steps' mines are in the third category, and the rest of the steps - especially those that highlight the futility of matching to teh beat for this song -only make it worse.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 4/10 Some songs are just innately not fitting to ITG, and steps for them will inevitably not work. This is one of those cases.
TOTAL SCORE 54/100

IDENTITY:
Insert 02Jam song here. Insert also Arch0wl Comment here..
SONG 12/15
Sound File Quality 1/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Rhythm game trance isn't creative... But it does work.
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Why couldn't you have edited down a little? Say, to remove the airplane noise and the long opening?
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 See creativity.
GRAPHICS ???/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 1/3 It's... The o2Jam image clipped. Poorly.. Not impressive.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 1/4 It's... The o2Jam image. Not impressive.
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 2/3 This is pushing 4 or even 5 a little too often.
Basic: Fun and technical merits 4/8 Yeah, so, speed ups bad, patterns too detailed for a 3-footer at this speed bad, and you really could have done more with the middle speed up than just have a minefield IMO.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 9/11 Once you get used to the speedups, they aren't so bad... These steps are neatly technical without once going outside the abilities of a decent Standard player. So much better.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 9/15 I see several issues with this chart. First, jump-step-jump-step-jump is almost always annoying. Second, the end is pushing what Heavy players are normally able to pull severely. Third, some of the mine use is simply capricious. Fourth, the steps on the second speed-up are just... Annoying. Surprisingly, I found the chart overall enjoyable otherwise.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 13/15 Those are some positively evil hands, but the other elements of the chart just seem to click, getting that precise technical fit thatmost ITG challenge charts are known for - this one will test many people's limits strongly.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 8/10 Issues all over the place, this one certainly is no winner - but that Challenge chart just gets it. I'd love to see a chart of Zero-One from you.
TOTAL SCORE 77/100

INNER UNIVERSE:
Vocal minimalist electronica.
SONG 13/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 The minimalism and simple patterns introduce some uniqueness.
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Too short, too short, too short. :|
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 This one fits... Almost. I can't quite imagine it on an ITG machine.
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 This image gets the feel of the song across neatly, down to subtleties like the blurred shadows.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 The background meshes interestingly well with the SM4 theme, and has comparable levels of subtle dark as the banner, while being neatly distinct... the title could have been better placed though.
STEPCHARTS 31/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 3/8 The eighth notes and ending are way beyond what should be in a Light chart. ever. The long jumps aren't too fun either, and the first part leaves the player trying to figure out the beat.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 2/3 That's an eight, minimum.
Standard: Fun and technical merits 5/11 Okay, these steps are far too twisty, eighth-note-filled, and insane to suit Standard. I am not convinced that you put much effort into them.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 6/15 OKay, what were you following here, becuase the steps sure imply you were following SOMETHING, but I can't figure out what. Also, where did those gallops and the jumps-with-steps-in-between come from, because they're annoying.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 6/15 Replace "jumps-with-steps-in-between" with "minefields", and the same comment as HEavy applies.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 4/10 Some songs sound awesome, and sound like they'll work, but take more precise thinking than most stepfile makers can really get. This is one of those ones. Great presentation elements, though.
TOTAL SCORE 62/100

JUMP:
OH GOD HAMTARO oh wait sorry.
SONG 13/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Snyth down-pop (as I like to call it) is a neat choice.
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Very very smooth cut, but waaaaay too short for ITG standards and (more problematic) emphasizes overly minimalist parts of the song at the wrong times.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 Honestly, this fits ITG like a glove. (My Favorite Game, anyone?)
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 An interestingly avant-garde style, with a bunch of different effects used while keeping it simplistic.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 Straight, simple, a little too similar to the banner, but nice nonetheless.
STEPCHARTS 44/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 4/8 Mines, mines, mines, plus baiscally nonstop jumps leaves me nonplussed.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 6/11 Still rather excessively heavy on the jumps, and I don't typically like using mines on Easy and Medium, though your use of them introduces natural twists which are easy enough to work with as to contribute to the difficulty without be
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 10/15 WHOA that is a weird use of Freeze Rolls! But a neat one nonetheless, and you were smart enough to not have a one-foot freeze roll or anything. The mine use is twisty but not unreasonable, though your steps do have an inconsistency issue.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 12/15 These steps really just feel strange to the song - This step has fewer technical issues (the only one is the use of mines, the steps feel much more consistent this time), but I found the Heavy set overall more fun.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 8/10 Fun stuff even though technically it's got a few quirks. Actual machines have more songs like this for a reason, and seeing some nine-foot experts makes me happy.
TOTAL SCORE 79/100

KISS ME:
The first song so far to really sound STRAIGHT out of ITG o.O;
SONG 12/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Now this isn't a song I'd expect...
Edit (length and cut quality) 1/4 Short short short, and starts to sound too repetitive.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 ... But oh MAN it sounds suited to ITG.
GRAPHICS 15/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 Neat image, implies a room...
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 ... And while it's the same image with the text moved, this one looks much  different by introducing the girl. Even without the video this would be a 4/4 background. That video, though... Holy damn.
STEPCHARTS 50/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 6/8 No particular problems, but nothing particularly awesome seeming about this set either.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 11/11 These steps get the feel of a casual DDR Heavy across quite perfectly - and for ITG, a casual DDR heavy is a perfect Medium.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 2/3 These feel way more like an 8 at too many critical points.
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 12/15 Two issues here. First, the sixteenth runs at a couple times don't really seem to match anything, certainly not the lyrics (which you call off of just once or twice that I could notice), and second.. Well I mentioned it in the last second, you seem to fall off just a couple of times. A beautiful casual set though.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 10/15 I don't know why, but these steps just seemed to lose something. The minefield jump mayhem certainly doesn't win any points with me, though the rest of the steps feel beautifully polished and suited to the song - it just kind of feels like you lost a lot of the casual by adding in all the mines.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 8/10 A few points I just don't like, but a fine casual set with my favorite Standard chart so far by far and a TON of polish - that video was just pure DDR awesome.
TOTAL SCORE 85/100

MARIO TAKES A WALK:
Guitar hero~o~o~o okay not really. (DISCLAIMER: I saw an earlier version of this one four months ago, though I mostly forget that version.)
SONG 10/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Very strange and sweet choice..
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 ... But with a sudden fadeout...
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 2/5 ... That has little to do with ITG.
GRAPHICS 12/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 1/3 Google image compressed down to size with the text subtle added on... I know Virg can do better than that!
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 This one gets the feel of the song better, at least, though still...
STEPCHARTS 43/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 5/8 WHY did you have to synch the song to the OFFbeats? These steps become incredibly confusing and off-the-expected-pattern WAY too much.

EDIT: Even after fixing the GAP and trying again, this set didn't impress that much, going from a 3 to a 5.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 6/11 They match! Then they don't! Then they do! Then they don't! Then freezes which seem to match a certain effect but don't! You get the idea. It's like you were channeling Pippi Girl. Again. EDIT: After GAP fix, these become a matched set - which is FAR too twisty for a Standard, plus a couple points of matching to weird drums where I kind of get the feeling you shouldn't have.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 7/15 ... It took me this long to realize that the song's just got the wrong GAP. Entirely. It's strange because you partially corrected, it feels, at a few points, and these would make a pretty fine set of technical steps if they were on. Setting it to the not-really-accurate-but-close-enough-for-jazz 0.10 offset,  I tried it again, and found that the steps are neatly technical and match the guitar part beautifully - but are waaaay to twisty and complex for what I consider a heavy chart to be.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 13/15 The only chart I only did after fixing the GAP was worth it. Fine technical working with the mines placed to really contribute to the steps - don't try this without a trick bar, people.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 5/10 Honestly, given I know you worked on this a long time back, you really needed to keep a closer track on the GAP - is your Machine Sync off? - and polishing on or rethinking of the lesser charts might have helped a lot too. Now let me tell the audience an embarrasing story or two about you. Just kidding :)
TOTAL SCORE 70/100

MULTIBALL:
MACHINAE! AW YEAH! WAYNE'S WORLD - Oh wait, sorry. (Can you tell I'm getting tired with the comments?)
SONG 11/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 2/4 Machinae's become the new Beatmania to some extent, unfortunately - and their most awesome stuff (AFAIK) still hasn't been simmed even!
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Too long, drags on at the end, AND a sudden cutoff.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 5/5 Lessee, three of their songs on ITG, this one's similar if more downtempo in feel. Yeah, it fits.
GRAPHICS 15/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 A neat looking affair that gets the pinball feel across...
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 4/4 And a different BG that gets the theme across nicely! Win.
STEPCHARTS 34/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 Pushing being a six footer... A lot.
Basic: Fun and technical merits 3/8 The light chart really fails to impress, due to the insane lengths of eighth note chains (play on C150) and borderline ludicrous amount of double, triple, etc. stepping. Oh, and unnessesary mines at the end.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 2/3 That's a nine or ten, not an eight.
Standard: Fun and technical merits 5/11 Max300 Heavy (but with hands!) should not be the inspiration for a STANDARD chart. Ever. The difficulty is quite frankly ludicrous for  Standard chart - I honestly think it's harder than Legend of Max standard.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 You have a penchant for underestimating difficulties, this one's easily pushing an eleven footer.
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 7/15 The steps are neatly technical but, for an 'extreme speed' chart, far too twisty. And you removed the hands, which only makes the Standard's having them more egregious.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 2/3 That's a 13, if not a 14.
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 9/15 Good freaking LORD the difficulty. This makes Pandemonium Expert look like Have You Never Been Mellow (the old one). 300 BPM, Eighth note, HANDS?!?!? Triplet jumps? Triplet... Gallops? There is such a thing as too much difficulty in the context of step competitions, and you found that line and cut it into tiny pieces. Beautifully technical steps, but blasting this far beyond ITG's max difficulty is honestly ludicrous.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 6/10 I am glad I didn't pull my pad out for this one. Sincerely glad. Making difficulty is not nessesarily making fun, and this song is proof.
TOTAL SCORE 66/100

NAMIDA GIRL:
J-Rooooock.
SONG 14/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Actual J-rock isn't as common as it seems anymore.
Edit (length and cut quality) 3/4 a nice cut of the highest energy pieces of the song, though the chorus might repeat a bit too much.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 This feels more suited to Guitar Hero/Freaks/Revolution than ITG.
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 Nice subtle use of the artist.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 But WAY too similar a BG until the video cuts in.
STEPCHARTS 41/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 7/8 Strange but fitting use of eighth notes, and a good avoidance of unneeded gimmacks. Fairly freestyle-suited, too. The strange speedup isn't TOO annoying here.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 7/11 Said speedup IS kind of annoying here, though. These steps just seem to lose something.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 8/15 And REALLY annoying (as is the stutter-stops earlier in) here. The steps really just get repetitive overall after a while.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 7/15 Honestly, the difficulty bursts here don't feel too suited to ITG, and come across as buffing the difficulty (especially given that the time you follow the guitar is the time it is hardest to hear). The speedup and stutter-stop are especially annoying here, too.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 6/10 Color me sub-impressed overall, though this one is modestly fun it just doesn't feel like a winner to me. At all.
TOTAL SCORE 75/100

SATELLITE:
Downtempo Vocal Trance. Not much else to say here.
SONG 10/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 2/4 People who want to be alternative go to trance, it's become one of the generic SM genres.
Edit (length and cut quality) 2/4 Fade out... AND sudden cutoff. Two bad ways to cut a song in ONE! The length isn't bad, though, it's not pushing too low as bad as some.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 This one feels well-suited to ITG, though it starts perhaps too slow.
GRAPHICS 11/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 1/3 So many effects - and yet this still manages to look fugly.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 2/4 What's with the letterbox?
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 6/8 The eighth notes are weird and off at a couple points, but mostly fit well into the chat.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 6/11 Technical errors (the steps feel matched to the vocals, then an eighth where there's no vocal match), twists that don't feel well-suited to sTandard, AND repetitive steps - a trifecta of issues.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 13/15 The steps go neatly into non-technical 'interpretation' feel at the start, while still being just a little technical at times to avoid repetitiveness. I like, though a few of the twists are highly odd.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 11/15 The steps are neatly technical, but reek of eau de So Deep at more than one point, and gets just as repetitive more than once.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 5/10 Honestly, trance charts can pull off being a lot more fun than this.
TOTAL SCORE 71/100

SPEEDY CAT:
... I can't wait until the comments to state this. What were you on when you decided Red XIII from Final Fantasy 7 fit this song?!?!
SONG 11/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 2/4 Beatmania IIDX isn't creative.
Edit (length and cut quality) 3/4 It's the IIDX cut, as is.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 Though it does kind of fit. Kind of.
GRAPHICS 8/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 0/3 Whatever you were on, it doesn't fit, at all. This image becomes fully ugly, and doesn't get the lighthearted feel of the song at all.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 0/4 See the banner, only worse. Plus the PIU thing. This isn't PIU
STEPCHARTS 23/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3 This is only a six because of the hands.
Basic: Fun and technical merits 4/12 How many hands was that? 23? That's 23 too many for Light mode. How many large empty spaces was that that could easily have had fitting arrows in them? However many it was, it was too many of them for any chart for this song.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 5/17 In the manual of 'how not to build a standard chart' includes things like 'don't put annoying hands en masse' - it's clear that you're trying to apply Pump It Up concepts (where triples are common and easy enough to pull off) to DDR (where, on a proper pad, this maneuver is damn hard without insanely large feet). Understand why I might not like having this many of them in such rapid sucession?
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 5/22 Okay, the things you did wrong include, but are not limited to: Even MORE annoying hands usage, single-note rolls (NONE of ITG2's rolls are on less or more than two arrows), and in general, gimmacks for difficulty instead of going straight as you so easily could have.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 1/10 You overapplied the 'Pump It Up' part of the name of 'Pump It Up: In The Groove 2', and the results are terrible in ITG or DDR terms.
TOTAL SCORE 43/100

STARTIN':
Ooh, ahh, Ayumi, ooh, ahh. (I bet no one figures out the joke I'm referring there.)
SONG 14/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 3/4 Ayumi is severely overplayed, honestly, but at least this is actual Ayu, not remix.
Edit (length and cut quality) 4/4 Nice smooth cut.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 4/5 Japanese rock fits at least somewhat - though at 108 BPM?
GRAPHICS 14/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 3/3 A neatly symbolic form with clever shopping.
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 3/4 I'm not sure what the link is to the motorcycle image (though reading the readme makes it more understandable). If the video's funny you should have included it. :<
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 6/8 Simple, fun, reminds me of Get It On or whatever on DDR Extreme 2 ("Get it on, till the break of dawn~") quite a bit, except not quite as fun because of the numbers of jumps added.
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 8/11 You know my old refrain, ifit feels like a casual DDR heavy it probably fits as an ITG standard. No exception here, though the mines are kind of annoying.
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 13/15 (So I played this one first this time.) Very technical, honestly reminds me of Mario Takes A Walk a lot, except not as twisty and therefore more fun.
Challenge: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Challenge: Fun and technical merits 10/15 A lot of capricious mine usage, and players are advised to not try this on anything less than 2x. The one Hand in there is kind of annoying, too.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 7/10 Pretty good, pretty good, Ayu can be fun consistently.
TOTAL SCORE 84/100

STICKSHIFTS AND SAFETYBELTS:
Bucket Seats have all got to go on the rhythm.
SONG 10/15
Sound File Quality 2/2
Creativity of song choice 4/4 Uh... It's interesting...
Edit (length and cut quality) 4/4 The cut's... Well frankly I can't judge if this is a good cut or not at all because I hate the song itself. Nothing TECHNICALLY wrong though.
DDR/ITG Appropriateness 0/5 But a song like this has REALLY screwy rhythms, which just doesn't fit ITG. At all.
GRAPHICS 11/15
Banner: Includes artist and title 3/3
Banner: Size and Formatting 1/1
Banner: Aesthetic Appeal 1/3 Its... A malibu. So?
Background: Includes title 3/3
Background: Size and formatting 1/1
Background: Aesthetic Appeal 2/4 Damn that text is ugly.
STEPCHARTS ???/60
Basic: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Basic: Fun and technical merits 5/12 [17:51:13] platinumhawke: running out of adjectives for "generic" "awkward" "mediocre"
[17:51:29] platinumhawke: and 'why the hell did you step this crap?"
(See also: Quadruple-step)
Standard: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Standard: Fun and technical merits 8/17 WHY did you have to follow the vocals which don't even have anything to do with the rhythms?!?!? WHY?!?!?!
Heavy: Bug-Free, has appropriate difficulty. 3/3
Heavy: Fun and technical merits 8/22 Yeah, so, technical steps.. On a slack guitar. That just feels wrong to me, on every level. Every level. Ever.
Tilt: My overall opinion of the file 3/10 Yeah, dude? Some songs just aren't meant to be simmed and this is one of them. This is Cannabis: The Sequel.
TOTAL SCORE ???/100