BeastSaber

Pyrowarfare's Review

Creative and interesting, but ultimately an uncomfortable map that tries to do too many things without musical justification

Fun Factor

2
Rhythm

5
Pattern Quality

3
Flow

3
Readability

5
Level Design

5

The Good

Beautiful light show with nice colours

Solid downmapping that captures the essence of the music even across the hard and expert

The patterns in the chorus feel very controlled and is a lot of fun. It feels very impactful

The Bad

Way too many inverts used at inappropriate times that severely impact the natural flow of the map. Keeping your arm propped up by the shoulder feels unnatural and uncomfortable when it happens repeatedly with no change in the song that would indicate this shift in motion

1/4 flicks and gallops felt unexpected and were super shitmiss-y. The low BPM of the song doesn't make them atrocious, but the flow of the people would have been better maintained without these constant snaps of the wrist

Many out the outwards facing diagonals that typically promote lean are poorly used and cause a massive disconnect between one arm and the other. You can see examples of this around the 0:50 mark and in other areas of the song, where the right arm wants to lean inwards to comfortably angle the hits, but the left arm is still moving straight up and down. This causes you to have to push your elbow and shoulder out at an odd angle, as well as requiring more tendons to stabilise compared to their inwards counterparts, which leads to exhaustion quicker

3.8

Mapper: LadFive

Created for the 2020 Diamonds in the Rough Mapping Event, alongside veteran mapper Skylar Wallace (you know who he is) with fully custom lighting from scratch and three unique difficulties to experience.

Diamonds in the Rough is an event for new mappers that matches them up with experienced coaches to create a multi-difficulty, curation-worthy map. Keep your eyes on these rookies in the future as their talent develops and read more about the event on Bsaber.com!

P.S. refining maps and iteration is my weakness, down mapping is pretty fun.

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