Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Windows Wars]

Another thing a mac can't do

Or at least I've never heard a song made entirely with Mac OS sounds. XD
Also, quite a lot of Windows Songs to review lately, I think this is the 3rd one in about 3 weeks? -.-

Anyway, this is a really nice song and it's amazing that you managed to create such a nice beat plus some very nice melodies with only windows sounds. Towards the end it gets all a bit hectic and pretty loud (at around 3:50), but the "question-answer-game" after that is just priceless!

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Step responds:

Yup, same here XD. Yeah, Windows songs are the latest trend :P. I was never good with melodies, but these took me really long and I'm glad they came out OK. There are some really catchy melodies in here which I was tempted to use in other songs of mine, but thought against it :P. That Question-Answer thing didn't come out as well as planned, but it's still kinda cool anyway. Might update it soon. By the way, Hectic is my middle name XP.

[~BH~ Aurora Theory]

Nice melodies

You have some very nice melodies in here. Very catchy and they never get boring, even on the fifth playthrough of the song.

I also like that you added some varity to the song by taking a break from the main beat during the middle of the song.

Only thing I didn't like that much was the outro. The song kind of just ends there, which sounds a bit strange. But sadly I have no idea how you could improve this. Fade outs are overdone and don't sound better than what you did here. And adding another part for the outro might ruin the nice and happy atmosphere the song creates.

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ErikMcClure responds:

Thanks, a pity about the outro :c

[LB + Song of Storms Remix]

Good

I don't know the original, but I guess it's from one of the many Zelda games, right?

Anyway, I think this sounds pretty awesome. Especially the strings together with the piano create a very nice atmosphere. Together with the added rain and storm effects I get the feeling that I'm sitting in my warm home with a cup of hot chocolate (or tea) while outside it is storming and raining (which it has a lot in the last few days where I live ^^).

Oh, and I wouldn't bother with reviewing my audio submissions, they aren't very good at all (and one of them is a "cover" of John Cages "4'33"", so there can't be heard anything in the first place. ^^).

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Lublub194 responds:

Haha. Exactly what I was going for! Thanks good sir :)

P.S. Hot chocolate is so much better then tea :P

I will review your audio. Simply because I can :D

Thanks for the review man!

-Lubz

[At The Mountain Top]

Very experimental indeed

In the intro I felt I was more like in a forest then on a mountain. Later on I asked myself where this mountain was supposed to be? I came to the conclusion that it can't be in this world, but more like in the netherworld. Or was it because I was playing Diablo II at the same time I was listening to this?

Anyway, I felt this song was very fitting to what I saw on the screen: Demons in the netherworld, the ground cracking beneath my feet, souls suffering endlessly because of the sins they commited in their lives...

Great song!

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

I love that game, and can see how it fits the mood of this song.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[.:The Final Battle:.]

Was expecting something different

Now, this is a nice song. I like the melodies and the simple but effective drum pattern. I just was expecting a more... fast paced and agressive track maybe. Because the title says "final battle". Your song sounds right now as if this was on a party after the very first battle. ^^
So yeah, spice this song up a bit.

The outro is pretty nice with this little solo at the end.

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GronmonSE responds:

I guess I could have added more stuff and made the climax stronger.

Thanks for the review. It was just a quickie to be honest :P

[Midnight Illusion (DP&KP)]

Intro needs more work, otherwise fine

I really can't see where this is supposed to be "work in progress", heh. This sounds pretty much finished to me.

Only the intro is a bit longwinded and a tad bit boring. About 46 seconds of the same beat with little to no variations in it until the main melody slowly fades in and even then it takes until 1:40 until the intro beat stops and the song slowly picks off. I think you should either cut down the length of the intro or try to make it more varied.

But once the song really starts off we can hear some very nice melodies. I think this would be a good track for a strategy game like Sim City for example, as it is calm and not too distracting.

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Kalapsia responds:

whats with you and games all the time, this is meant for music only and not those gay flash games about anime porn ok

[Race On (WIP) [SFPL]]

Incomplete?

I don't know, this sounds pretty much complete to me. Would be nice to hear that in a racing game, and not only because of the title. ;)

I think this would fit nicely in racing games like Gran Turismo, especially for tracks with lots of forests along the streets.

Only issue with this song is that it is rather short, so a little bit more work in the middle would be a pretty nice thing.

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SFaPiL2 responds:

Ok, it's good to read that the structure is complete (length aside). I'll focus on spicing up the middle a bit and making it longer then.

Thank you Haggard ^__^.

[The Ice Queen's Palace]

Cold...

Yeah, this sounds very cold. But what can you expect from a song that's called "Ice Queen's Palace", right?

I agree with SessileNomad, though. The song is a bit too quiet, there are parts where you can hardly hear the instruments, except for when you turn up your speakers of course. But normally my speakers are set to a volume level where I can hear everything else just fine, so I think your song needs to be a tad bit louder.

Aynway, the melodies sound pretty nice and as I've already stated, very cold. It just all needs to be a bit louder. :)

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sarias responds:

I can hear it just fine? Its from the poem fire and Ice and I took the ice's perspective of course its cold lol :)

[Welcome to W0RLD]

Nice 8-bit sounds

The intro is a bit boring. You stay too long on one beat there before you change it. After about 24 seconds the song gets a lot better when the other insturments set in. It takes away a bit from the boringness of the beat we listen to the time before.

However, the main melody that starts at around 0:45 is very good. It's catchy and it sounds pretty happy. It also kept me listening.

The break at 1:25 is a bit abrupt, maybe a fade would work better here (fade the beat in and the other beat we've been listening to before out).
Same goes for when you change back to the other beat.

The looping is done very well. At first I didn't even realize the song was starting over. :)

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PuffballsUnited responds:

I like the part when the song changes rhythm. I can see why people would think it's too abrupt, and I'm not quite sure if I think so or not.

[No Parking]

Generic at first, but better later on

At first I thought that this sounds pretty generic, as if I heard this a bilion times before. But once the melodies set in it got much better. I even found myself moving a bit to the melody. :)

I also like that you put some breaks from the main beat in there, especially the first one at 1:12 sounds very nice. I was hoping that it would go on a bit longer, but no such luck. :(

Anyway, this is a very nice song, good job!

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sumguy720 responds:

I usually start my songs with something generic, just because I usually write them on the fly, and it's just to get me in the mood for the chord progression. Maybe this is something I should change... I'll look at some more professional music and see how they start their songs, perhaps I'll gain some insight.
Glad you like the break at 1:12, I was sort of nervous as to whether or not it fit in well.
Thank you for the review!