Ask yourself, "What is the effect of x pattern?"

Start thinking more about what your map tries to make the player feel. The most valuable lesson I learned from my game designing experience is that it is not about the details but instead how those details evoke emotions from the player.

A map is all about your perspective of the song. Make it personal. Consistency is cool and ensures that your map's flow is cohesive, but it is not the key to a good map, and sometimes you don't even need to be consistent. I would call a map successful if it makes some people feel the same emotions as the mapper.

Same with modding. Do not only point out what is on the map. Everyone has basic observational skills, and only reiterating that is not helpful. Instead, mention how x pattern is detrimental to the mapper's vision. To do that, you have to try to understand what makes the mapper put these notes down as they did.

With the mindset out of the way, here are some things that you should also pay attention to other than ye olde consistency:

1. Hand-movement: How does x pattern play on each hand's side? Is the feeling of hitting the pattern intense or not? Is it suitable with what the mapper is going for? Does it make sense with the current map flow?
2. Contrast: Does putting x pattern next to y and z patterns have any different effect when x pattern is put alone? If yes, is that effect good or detrimental to the map?
3. Focus: What is x pattern trying to focus on in the song? Is it the instruments, the vocals, or the feeling these elements provide?
4. Break: Extended from contrast, break stands out a lot in a pattern. Spotlights only exist if breaks are there to let the players breathe and reflect on the pattern. Not enough breaks can leave the player feeling exhausted and overwhelmed from too many ideas, while too many can cause flow dissonance.

Last but not least: have fun!

I love reinforcing motifs through repetition and their evolution, whether in idea, pattern, or emotion. You can surprisingly bring out a lot from just a single idea, so rather than incorporating as many ideas as possible shallowly, I want to be as concise and thoughtful with my one idea per map as possible.

Be interesting and have something meaningful to say lol. Don't try to do so many things at once - rather, focus on one thing, polish it, and make it shine. If you want to make a shitpost ultra-self-circlejerking map, double down, triple down, quadruple down, even. Don't shy away from doing the most shameless shit possible. Don't pretend your map isn't what it is, and just go for it. This requires you to be truthful with yourself and know exactly what you want, eliminating the noise in your head that confuses you about your objectives.

Lots of technical skills but nothing meaningful to say.

Vietnamese National Mania Championship 2021

1. Yourmythos - Sankayou: Qualifier LN Release
2. Rabpit - Azucar: RO32 LN Release

Quaver Official Tournament 2022

1. yvk1n0 - Yukinopapurika: Qualifier Rice Acc
2. Camellia - TremENDouS: GF TB Collab

Vietnamese National Mania Championship 2023

1. Persona - Green Eyes: Qualifier Rice Acc
2. Sta - Iris: QF Rice Tech
3. iboibo - titi: GF Rice Tech

Vietnamese National Mania Championship 2024

1. SiLiS - SAINT: Qualifier Rice Tech
2. Ice - I D M: RO64 TB Collab
3. THE BEAT WIZARD - THE MILLION &#@$#! QUESTION: QF Rice Tech
4. [-^v-] - gone: GF LN Technical
5. XaverXD - UNCHANGED DEVASTATION: GF Hybrid Collab
6. trung-nova - Singularity Breaker -Moment of Finality-: GF TB Collab

osu!mania Italian Cup 2025
1. [-^v-] - iteration-prime: GF TB Collab

Vietnamese National Mania Championship 2025
1. eoll - Love Like: Qualifier Rice Tech
2. DETRO a.k.a LUZE - thundenic: SF Rice Stamina JS
3. DRIVE. - Vestiges of Dreams: GF SV
4. Kry.exe - IMPERIA: GF TB Collab

1. Kobeni&Benio&Mashiro - Masshiro World
2. cosMo@Bousou-P - Sadist.Music Factory
3. nao - Towa naru Kizuna to Omoi no Kiseki
4. U1 High-Speed - EGOISM 440
5. ikaruga_nex - ReviXy
6. Ta9-5 - Positive (feat. Looci)
7. HIMEHINA - Utakata Yo Ikanaide (Cut Ver.)
8. t+pazolite vs P*Light - IZANA
9. Camellia - Arcology On Permafrost
10. MUZZ - Nemesis
11. MIYAKI vs. KenKen - Flashback (TV Size)
12. Verzache - Night
13. 9mm Parabellum Bullet - Inferno (TV Size)

Feel free to use my maps in any tournament, but if possible, please let me know in advance so that I know not to update the map + polish the map for the tournament + I can watch it live : )

I think a map is good when it manages to make an impression that lasts. I might not think about them consciously, but their impacts are everlasting on me. My favorite map list is a list of maps that have influenced me throughout the years. Sometimes maps come and go as I reflect upon them, but these maps are what made me the mapper that I am today.

Don't do stupid dumb shit and then complain about people complaining about you.