Reaper93's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[B0unc3 New Test Omg!!!]

Could it be?

I think this is my first review for the Newgrounds-wide famous B0unc3! How about that! Anyway, on to the review;

Intro: Gets right into it with a vocal that just seems to fit the style of your music. Almost all of it is incredibly up beat and relatively fast, so that fits nicely. It then cuts into a nice fast synth with a higher pitched one doing melody. Works pretty well, but it seems to be a bit empty or bare. Couldn't tell you for the life of me what to put in there, though, sorry :p 2.5/3

Body: That fadeout has to go or be revised, in my opinion. It just doesn't... flow. Once again, being relatively unskilled at making music, I couldn't tell you what to do with it, but it needs a change. The remainder of the body plays out well enough, but could use a little alternate melody thrown in there for a bit to break up the monotony. 2.5/3

Ending: That fadeout shutdown ending makes it loop perfectly (big plus), but it sounds a tiny bit rushed. Give it a bit more time and it should be alright. 2.5/3

The last point is based on how plain awesome the song is. Well, you get the extra point, for a total score of 8.5. I'll be nice and round up to 9, which is a 5 on the song ratings. I look forward to listening to the final tune.

[DJ Comet-Failsafe]

Short 'un

Not much time, but here we go on the quick pros cons.

Pro - Beginning segment kicks major ass (up until around 12 seconds, after that it gets progressively more bleh)

Cons - Repetive.

Still good, but I'd love to see that little intro slapped onto something a bit better. 8.

[{The Traveller}]

Review time! Gonna be short :(

My lack of time forces me to shave a few minutes off your review time, but I suppose I'll give ya what I got.

First up, this is one of my favorite songs of yours, right up there with the PotC remix.

Intro:
The way you have some string-like intrustments (whether they are actually strings or electronic, I cannot quite tell; perhaps they are both? ><) in the beginning leads into the song very well, giving it a fast intro, sucking the listener in rapidly, and making him want to know what comes next. It does what an intro does, and sounds good doing it. 3/3

Body:
At around 44 seconds the song transfers into the "body", or your main bit. Basically it combines an element of the intro (those crazy strings) with some extremely rapid techno up top, and a pretty pounding bass below. Very well put together. But the kicker is yet to come, the ear-shattering melody swaps temporarily at 1:40 to something that sounds EXTREMELY pirate-like, and still high pitched like the rest of the song's melody. This break-up in the theme makes the length bearable, and not repetetive. At the very end of your body you smack back into the main melody from before (the break being rather long, which is nice), resulting in continuity. 3/3

Ending:
It's basically just a fade-out, but this is the kind of song that needs a fade-out. 2/2

The final two points are how much I think the song kicks ass and melts a person's face off if you play it at max volume. Personally, I'll give this the max points because the song just sounds plain awesome. 2/2

Total: 10/10. This song really is amazing, one of your best. 5/5 for the vote.

[TS2: Streets +1]

Not much time for a review ;(

However, I loved this song in TS2, and hope you will do even more timesplittery goodness! (Yes I know you've already done Anaconda, but perhaps the moon lander game would be remixable, as would the "Future Perfect" track from TS3? Love that track :D)

Basically it remixes everything, sounds great, does stuff right. Not enough time to be specific :(

CyrusOfNaias responds:

:O I should get around to more TS T_T...
Fine I think I'll make that a project soon :3

[Anaconda [Surge Mix]]

When I saw the title...

Thought it was gonna be a remix of API's song, "Anaconda". Damn but I was wrong. That song hurts my ears, this one... not so much :D

Oh, and I spent far too much time playing that minigame. Like for real. See the review of your preview for where else you can hear this lil gem ;)

As for the song itself, there was a bit of weird distortion around the one minute mark I didn't quite think fit the song, but it was great to see you remembered that little ending part of the ditty. Although it could've used a few more seconds and been loopified for listening to while veggin' out :(

Anyway, good job. Nets a solid 4/5 from me for not necessarily improving very much on the original, but being a killer song anyway while not outright copying it.

CyrusOfNaias responds:

Thank you!
lolz yea I didn't add too many things of my own in there, save for the instruments and random FX.

I thought I DID loop it x_x

[WIP August 2007]

Hehe... memories alert :D

It is indeed the Anaconda game from TS2. Furthermore, the song is ALSO audible in the third game, playable on the organ on the level "scotland the brave" just before the encounter with the tank. Took me a minute to figure out where it was from when I did it, too :p

Oh, right, the review... uh, it's a remix. Of a good song. 4/5 :D

[Final Fantasy VII - Fight 2007]

Well, well, well...

If you've read any of my other reviews (which you probably haven't, given how recent this account is), I am either A) Extremely thorough and helpful, or B) simply offer encouragement.

Unfortunately, I am feeling rather adverse to the tedium of analyzing the song and such, so I will have to do the latter. That, and I've enjoyed basically every other song of yours, so keep it up. I'll dock a point for originality and round up to a 5 on the rank vote. Good job.

NemesisTheory responds:

I'd read through your reviews but that feature hasn't been implimented yet, but I will definitely take your word for it! :p

Much <3 for the 5 and the review, and I'm glad to hear you like this song and the rest of the batch as well. :)

[Houki Boshi - RMX]

Well, here we got ourselves a song!

Now this is quite a tune. Unfortunately it's a remix, so I can't really give you credit for the notes (-1 point :( ), but the music is very well put together. Unfortunately it gets a bit staticky and distorted, which you managed to fix in the rewrite of this remix. So, kudos to you. 8'd and 4'd.

[Houki Boshi - RMX2]

Good work

This basically fixed everything wrong with the first song. The first one was a bit too loud (the remix, that is), which got it a little distorted. It's missing a bit of the same speedy feeling, but overall this is what a rewrite of a previous song should do.

It does what it does, the song is still good, so an 8 and a 4 from me.

[Existence]

Woot!

Well, I wrote a horrifically long and helpful review last night, so I'll keep this one short.

The song lacks a bit of energy, but the traditional feel is there. This song feels a bit like a toned down version of Dawn of Time (which is also my favorite song of yours, by the way, nearly set the intro cutscene for a custom campaign I never finished to it a while back, but that's a story better suited for PMs anyway :p) which means it works well. The feeling, as said before, is where this comes out great, but the song is missing a bit of umph.

Normally I'd tell you how to fix all pieces of it, but in general, umph it up a bit and it'll be better. Assuming you can figure out what "umph it up" means, that is ><

8 and a 4 from me, looking forward to hearing your new music.