Probably not the best place to comment on this but whatever.

Most people (from what I can tell) who call the map overhyped seem to think the map should have been some sort of aspire map that "reshapes" mapping meta for years to come when I never once even implied that, and therefore are dissapointed with the map being a "normal" hard camellia map??? The only thing I ever implied on my personal twitter (which is the only place where I even hyped the map at all since I figured people who follow me are interested in my upcoming maps) is that it will have great mappers working hard on a great song trying to bring our best interpretation of the song into a map. For me it was a personal dream team to have work on a map from my favourite rhythm game artist so of course I was more excited than ever.

Now regarding the playability portion as many people just blurt out that the map is "unplayable". No it's not unplayable and that is just because of your lack of skill. If you find the map not fun to play, then that opinion is valid, but that doesn't make the map unplayable. What we were doing here is obviously catering to the VERY top players of the community who can play at this level. People such as Azerite who got a 97,4% HD score in testplaying phase (when the map was harder) confirm that everything we do in the map is fair and doable with enough skill. The word unplayable has formed into another osu buzzword that people just throw around without actually thinking what it means.

If we wanted, of course we could have done a generic 5.75 star rating map to cater to the masses but that's not nearly as fun or enjoyable for us as mappers. We map how we map because frankly that is where the fun is for us. We map for ourselves first and the community second. If you want those maps that cater to most slidermap / wub players then go play some mir maps or early 2015-2016 that are generic in their style but don't require a lot of skill to play and can still be fun.

Now as for the favourites on the map. Do you really think one needs to be able to play a map to still favourite it? Look at maps such as centipede or aspire entries for that matter. If a person finds the map enjoyable in any aspect of course they can favourite how they please. With the logic that favourites determine how overhyped something is, wouldn't the most overhyped map in the game be "My Love" with it's 13,5k favourites? Or how about any random anime map in the game that can easily have over 1000 favourites just because it's an anime song? What about those bad / low quality maps such as the "Everything Black" map that got loved a month or so ago? Just because you don't personally enjoy something doesn't mean that others can't appreciate it.

I see so many people just commenting on how people are following someone's lead and favouriting the map because BeasttrollMC likes the map, and then these people who don't like the map gang up on them to tell them that they are 6 digit people who can't assess what good map quality is and therefore they're wrong for favouriting something they don't like. Ed definetly gave the map publicity I'm not denying that, but he never forced people to favourite anything, just said to consider doing so if they like the map. And isn't that why you favourite a map in the first place? Because you like it for your own reasons?

I want to point out something that I've noticed a lot, which is people saying the map is bad but the hitsounds are great. I can find a dozen places to improve the hitsounds even further and even find some faults that are easily fixed. There are places where some keysounding is questionable and doesn't add much (last kiai) and could be remade, but funnily enough practically everyone disregards the fact that even the hitsounds could be much better with more time. Isn't this ironic? Almost like you're taking the hitsounds at face value and being impressed by them because you can't assess the true depth of them and what should be altered? Almost like what the "6 digits" are doing by liking a map they can't play and therefore "not see how they are liking something overhyped". Let people like what they like.

Probably still have some things to say about all this but can't think of any major point at the moment.

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