I just played Hayden's Girl Boy Song, you know, the one by Aphex Twin and the one that Toph has also stepped. I raised a question to myself, and I'm stuck between answers.
Is this simfile any good?
The sync is great, the patterns are fun. Surely it's the step between Toph's Heavy and Oni/Challenge steps that should be considered a better simfile. But I noticed that even though Hayden left out a ton of notes, Toph's Oni/Challenge was over-filled in my own opinion and mostly a challenge for myself to play.
The issue that I have with deciding whether this is a decent or worthless file is something most people would say to something like 2km's K8107 that was included in -joe-'s F4 simfile pack. 2km's K8107 wasn't bad, but what was the point? Skorpion9X's K8107 was "way better" and that's it, end of story. Why isn't anyone saying this about Hayden's Girl Boy Song? Surely it was a waste of time, it's not bad, it's fun to play, but falls technically short. It's nothing special.
My arguement now is that I like the file, but if I had to pick one of them to place in a top simfile listing, why would I pick one over the other? Hayden's may be middle ground, but if I want fun, I could play Toph's Heavy steps. If I was even more skilled, I would consider Oni/Challenge to be more fun. So now I have the issue that skill determines opinion. Hayden's now plays into a very narrow ground because only people of my skill level and below would play it, until you reach the very large of average simfile players that play more for fun. And I'd say that Toph's Heavy steps are more appealing to most "Play for fun-ers."
Think of a scale, with each simfile on opposite ends. Which one outweighs the others? Toph's appeals to more people, but Hayden's is by no means bad.
Is this simfile any good?
The sync is great, the patterns are fun. Surely it's the step between Toph's Heavy and Oni/Challenge steps that should be considered a better simfile. But I noticed that even though Hayden left out a ton of notes, Toph's Oni/Challenge was over-filled in my own opinion and mostly a challenge for myself to play.
The issue that I have with deciding whether this is a decent or worthless file is something most people would say to something like 2km's K8107 that was included in -joe-'s F4 simfile pack. 2km's K8107 wasn't bad, but what was the point? Skorpion9X's K8107 was "way better" and that's it, end of story. Why isn't anyone saying this about Hayden's Girl Boy Song? Surely it was a waste of time, it's not bad, it's fun to play, but falls technically short. It's nothing special.
My arguement now is that I like the file, but if I had to pick one of them to place in a top simfile listing, why would I pick one over the other? Hayden's may be middle ground, but if I want fun, I could play Toph's Heavy steps. If I was even more skilled, I would consider Oni/Challenge to be more fun. So now I have the issue that skill determines opinion. Hayden's now plays into a very narrow ground because only people of my skill level and below would play it, until you reach the very large of average simfile players that play more for fun. And I'd say that Toph's Heavy steps are more appealing to most "Play for fun-ers."
Think of a scale, with each simfile on opposite ends. Which one outweighs the others? Toph's appeals to more people, but Hayden's is by no means bad.
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