octopus58's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Arcade Blaster]

This has an awesome house feel while managing to reference a lot of arcade motifs, love it! It has a great positive and happy feeling that makes you wanna dance haha. The progression was also really good, with repetition and variation in all the right places. The song is also very well mixed, especially with the bass popping and being crisp, while the lead instruments make themselves heard and take a lot of space. Beautiful work, keep it coming!!!

[Candrin's Theme - The Vagrant]

Definitely has that retro arcade machine feel, love it! Looking at the character you linked, the music sounds like it really fits him too. There's such a great energy to this track, it's dancy and actiony. The portamento you have sometimes also just tugs at the heart strings, it's so awesome. And it sounds like it would loop perfectly, too! Amazing and beautiful work, keep it coming!!!

[Untitled 3]

Melodicas are fun! I have a yamaha one that I like messing around with haha. Sounds like you know how to play :)

BigBlueBazooka responds:

Thanks. Mine is a hohner, I'm just messing around here too.

[Triangular Adventure]

Very melodic for dubstep, I like it :D

The whistle instrument for the lead makes this song sound carefree, which is pretty nice. All the instruments kind of fit together to make this unique vibe which I really liked. And the energy definitely got built up in a great way! The outro was also a very nice slow way to end the song. Great work, keep it up :)

30LevelUp responds:

Thanks for the feedback! :)

[Forest Lullaby]

Relaxing, warm, and fuzzy. Listening to this first thing after waking up really made me feel good :)
It sounds like something you could easily drift off to because of how calm it is with all the soft instruments, or something you can wake up to due to the bird chirps and happy mallet sounds. The song is short but the progression is very nice, carrying it through beautifully from start to finish. Just awesome work, keep it coming!

BlakCatMusic responds:

Hey thanks a ton really glad you enjoyed it :)

[Twilight]

This song is full of different style and mood swings, I love it! It started out pretty and happy, then went to kind of uncertain and mysterious for a bit, then back to happy and then just the chaos kicked in out of nowhere! You made great usage out of all the instruments and made them work very nicely together, and made a great progression altogether. I can definitely feel all the styles you mentioned in here as well, because there's definitely an epic orchestral element, metal guitary stuff, and dubstep as well. Great work here, keep it up!

[RyuiY - Dreamvision]

This is so dang awesome! The energy you build almost immediately hits and turns into this crazy and beautiful chaos. The piano was an awesome decision and the way it was played sounds great, and the synthy/electronic stuff really amplified the unique mood of the song. All the different phases are so varied and fit together so perfectly, while covering many different moods like passionate/emotional, to hectic, to hopeful, suspenseful, etc. And that pitch change towards the end was so cool! Awesome job once again, you make great music, keep it up!!

RyuiY responds:

Your review is so amazing. Thanks for listening :D

[When the Dragon Strikes]

I love the default windows MIDI soundfont lol. Something about it makes anything written in it sound so nostalgic, like it's from the early 2000s. The melody definitely sounds enticing, and like you said being chased by a huge dragon or other threatening enemy. I love the energy you maintain, especially with that one repeating melody with more stuff building off of it. Awesome work, keep it up!!

supermelon-creations responds:

thanks thanks!! thank you for the kind words and yeszz I was hoping to hit some kind of nostalgic spot with it

[Feel Good]

I can see what you mean with the whole comfortable melody being amplified thing, because on one end if you remove the percussion it would probably be a slightly intense but mostly relaxing song, but the percussion gave this a really cool kick and brought all the energy! All the different phases stick together so well, and the instruments you chose worked nicely together. The guitar playing was also awesome! Great job, keep it up :D

[[Belastet] ~ Rapid Happiness]

Even with using the Epic Paradise Chords arp you still managed to add a lot to it and make it sound exciting! Especially when you put a filter on it at one point while having other stuff play over it. Sometimes people get lazy with Nexus and just slap arps together, but in your case you really built off of it. Great work once again :D

Belastet responds:

Thank you!!!!!!