95 SDG tier list
Posted on: April 1, 2024, at 07:12:12am

Since FFR difficulty is based on AAA, some charts in the same difficulty are easier/harder to SDG than others. Nevertheless I have a goal of SDG-ing all charts at difficulty 95, and here is what I've done so far and how I feel about each:

== Very Hard ==
❌ A Battle I Absolutely Can't Lose - 2nd & 3rd quarters are brutal, switching between different skillsets without break. The biggest blocker for me is the second megatrill
✅ Delirium v2 - I thought this would be one of the last remaining ones for quite awhile. It seems once you pass a certain bar, your score gets a lot better
❌ Here We Go - What is this
❌ how things went wrong - So much hand control
✅ No Time For Sleep - No idea how I did this. It's impossible to transition right after the fastest "8th" roll in the middle, which is enough to spill more than 10 goods most of the time
❌ Our Journey and Epilogue. [Full] - Ending is brutal; even if it were just the latter half it wouldn't have been easy... AND the whole song is nearly 6 minutes

== Hard ==
✅ cafe terrace at dusk - Mirror feels easier for me to deal with the middle bursts. The rest is brrrrrr
❌ Japan Style Breakcore!!! - That one jumptrill
✅ Rationalist - Jacks
✅ Redemption Arp - Wow it was harder than I thought. Not only the consecutive minijacks pose problems, but it's overall just quite dense
❌ Secret Area - PB is 10-0-0-0. Should be doable...
✅ Shuu no Hazama (Rainshower) - Similar to Delirium v2
✅ Slash Dot Slash (Slim boy fat) - I feel like I should score better than 9-0-0-0, but I can't for some reason
❌ Tactical Railroad - Easy to mess up especially at the anchors

== Medium ==
✅ Cold Storage - Usual T11 minijacks
✅ Mario-chi Survivor - Mostly easy streams, but 24th minitrills and 32nd rolls require preparation
✅ one way to hannover - Similar to Cold Storage
✅ OTENAMI Hurricane - Spikes
✅ Scrap Syndrome - More known for the megatrills and their transitions, but in the context of SDG, jump-minijacks throughout the whole chart pose more problems
✅ Super Soaker - I've always thought it's a superior version of You Time, both in terms of SDG and AAA

== Easy ==
✅ Extratone in a Perfect World - Haven't played this recently, but probably an "easy to SDG, hard to AAA" one
✅ FACTORY_RESET - One small mistake can net you several more goods, especially in the 3rd quarter. Eventually became my Derby get though
✅ Happy Ending (Kkrusty's We Ready Remix) - Most of the difficulty is in the ending
✅ Paradoxical time leap trial - Easy to SDG, hell to AAA, and very mindblockable
✅ thinking of you - Classic

== Very Easy ==
✅ grind2 - Easy to SDG, hard to AAA
✅ grind4 - Short
✅ Stinger - Was actually my #1 equiv at some point
✅ The Ordeal Becomes Great - Not dense, but hard to time correctly
✅ You Time - Was actually my #1 equiv at some point

Total: 23 / 30