Just wanna remind y'all that even if you're not into DDR or rhythm games in general, you're missing out on bona fide Good Shit if you're not subscribed to CowEye, who does custom charts and always cosplays for each routine. You will understand why it is Good Shit about 15 seconds into this and I promise you, there is plenty more where that came from.
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in reply to @iiotenki's post:
do you know if coweye uploads the chart files themselves anywhere? they look fun as hell and I want to play them myself but couldn't find any downloads
As far as I know, he doesn't, unfortunately. I dunno if he's ever explained why, but I think it might be because, from what I can tell, he only does the charting for those specific excerpts that he posts, rather than the full song (you'll see that his combo counter always starts at 1 even when it's mid-song), so I don't think there would be anything to play beyond that. Still probably wouldn't hurt if he did anyway, but yeah. That's my guess, at least.
it wouldn't shock me if he didn't release them because the logic of charts, especially ones that incorporate a lot of high-level moves, are pretty idiosyncratic. you write a chart for yourself, you never really have to think about how a person who is not you would read it, and you bake in a ton of assumptions. In Coweye's case I think they're really good assumptions - in this video for example he never resets or makes a move to come back into a front-facing position, trusting the chart to provide a pattern that will be playable with your back turned - but when you write for other people they have no way to know that just off the bat.
Fwiw the hands and 180 turns are uncommon but overall it seems pretty readable; it adheres to current charting conventions, most notably the use of mines to indicate footswitches (alternating feet on the same arrow.) There's some truly mind-melting stuff in the deep end of ITG tech charting, like Matt Silver [14] by dimo (how to).
I'd believe it. I kinda assumed it wasn't strictly in accordance with modern meta since I don't recall him doing brackets in videos and my DDR boomer impression of modern play is mostly "you hold onto the bar and never twist your body"
My arc for coweye videos:
1 "so good! I wanna try that!"
2 "huh those sure are some steps huh"
3 "yeah no doing hands stuff would snap my spine"