Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[** \ RTB's Theme / **]

Great

Great guitar playing as always. I think I said it before, but I will happily repeat myself here: I really admire your playing, sonofkirk! :D

The song has some very nice melodies and I like the changes, like at 0:54. It makes the song very diversified and keeps the listener interested.

Still I think this needs some vocals. Some parts in the song are pretty much perfect for some vocals.

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Sonofkirk responds:

I'm glad you enjoy my playing man, it means a lot coming from you :D. Keep on repeating yourself on my other songs lmao.

Thanks, since this is prog metal, changes are frequent especially about time signatures, I used TONS of weird and odd time sigs on this song.

Yeah, I always need vocals on my songs, sadly I can't sing. I'm going to ask Bad-Man to add some kick ass vocals on it, like he did with Corky's theme.

Thanks a lot for the review Haggard, I like to read reviews like that, constructive and helpful :). \m/

[Blown Away]

Nice

A nice rock track. Nothing more, but nothing less! I like the trumpets here a lot. They give the track some sort of a jazz feeling.

But this song definitely needs some vocals! I mean, everything is set up for some lyrics. There are some parts where the instruments don't play that loud, as if they are taking themselvs back so that the singer can be heard better... but there's no singer present. :(

Anyway, nice song!

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svere responds:

Thanks for the review! Yeah, I had some vocals in mind, but never got around to it.

[Organ Mix]

Good song

I like the intro a lot. It starts very calm and slowly the synth fades in. The synth also offers a nice melody. At first I was afraid that this would turn into another run-of-the-mill-techno-song. But luckily it didn't. Instead you created something quite original here.

Only thing is that it gets a little repititve after a while. I think with some lyrics this song would be even better!

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Dragproductions responds:

yea
thx for the review

[FF_Moon]

Nice

I had this running in the background for quite a while. It's a very nice tune.

I like how calm it is and I think this would make a very good "Town Theme" in a RPG. I also like how the different instruments work together to create this half calm half sad atmosphere.

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Dragproductions responds:

Yea man
Thanks for the review

[Zcaar Theme]

Two different tracks, two different tacts

This sounds as if you first had the background beat and then clicked randomly around to create some sort of melody. But you didn't care that much about paces or tacts here... it sounds as if the keyboard and the drums don't belong together, but if I was listening to two different songs at the same time.

Also, the cymbal is very annoying and shouldn't be used on every 4th beat.

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zcaar responds:

First of all, I did not really entirely make this. Mikkim, my friend, told me what I should do, so I made something and he liked it. I have almost no idea how to make songs

[b-8it]

Better than the previous one

This has a very nice beat and a good rhythm. I can imagine hearing THIS tune in a game or a movie. Too bad it's so short though, because it will get annoying very quickly if you hear it over and over again in a game.

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[8-B(oss)it]

Ouch

The tune isn't very earfriendly. But it's very 8-bit-like.

Sounds almost like some "Game Over" tune, at least from 0:05 to 0:09. Other than that: I can't imagine this being used in a flash movie or flash game. The loop isn't long enought to function as some kind of background music. It's also not varied enough to be used as background music.

And for a short interlude it's just not good enough, I'm afraid. It sounds more like randomly thrown together notes. No real structure present here.

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[[LY] `Elysium, --]

Nice melody

The background beat is a little bit too generic, but you make up for this with the amazing melody you created. It is very catchy and also some of the effects you put in there sound pretty funny.

Too bad the song is so short, though.

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la-yinn responds:

Aye, well, I wanted a simple kick to keep a steady flow. It's the most generic percussion you can think of, but it gets the job done. ;p

Amazing melody, eh? :D Haha, thanks!

Aye, it's short. But a V2 is in the making, so I'm happy with all the advice I get from reviews. Next version WILL be longer and WILL be less repetitive.

Thanks for the review!

[Western Spaghetti]

Has potential

This has a lot of potential, with a nice voice singing some nice lyrics to it this could actually be great. :D
The melody is simple but nice and catchy, the rhythm is good, too.

But it seems as if the guitar isn't tuned correctly. Either that or you didn't play the chords right from time to time.
Also, the chords don't always sound that clean. It sounds as if you sometimes mute a string with your finger, when it shouldn't be muted.

But again, this song has a lot of potential. If you manage to play it cleaner than in this version and if you or one of your friends could add some lyrics to it, it will be a very good song.

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[High Score!]

Catchy

Very catchy song, but it has to be used very carefully or else it would get annoying pretty fast.
If I hear this in a flash submission once in a short level, or after I beat a level it would be ok. But it I would hear this in a puzzle game for example, it would drive me nuts. ^^

Anyway, I like the cheerful atmosphere this song creates.

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Adam-Beilgard responds:

Absolutely right. Someone else told me to take out the count-in so it can loop better and I was all "whaaa-??"

Anyway, I'm glad you liked it, thanks for the review!