Beatmap Listing » Ardolf - Split EX (Instrumental Ver.)

Uh, I guess I'm obligated to comment on this for a bit.

Yes I'm aware of the December 26th 2021 Incident. It hurts a lot since I spent like 40 hours on this map and the day I was about to finish it the FNF community went berserk. Obviously it's sad, but it's been a year since and I've gotten over it for the most part. I've removed most references to it and only really kept a few tags on the matter, but I'd like to at least keep it under wraps for now. I still love this song, Ardolf is such a fantastic artist, just a shame that it had to be tied to something awful. I really don't want to let this song or the mapset I spent so long on go to waste, so I'm going to separate art from artist and treat this as a standalone song. It's probably for the better like this.

I know I flipflopped over my feelings for this mapset, how I went from wanting to rank it to not to yes to not again and such, but I've always wanted this ranked in the back of mind. I never really gave up thinking about it after 6 months or so and since I've got the help of some of my friends with an Ardolf project they're working on, I've found new motivation to maybe try and rank this set again. I'm aware not everyone likes megasets - much less a two-mode hybrid of 18 difficulties, but I really hope people give this a chance again and not treat it for what it looks like. The top diff on osu!std is really one of my best maps to this day and I really hope you at least give it a peek.

Thanks for reading. I love you all!