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Interesting sound. Not the most impressive thing but if you keep working on songs I'm sure they'll be great soon enough! I hear potential. It wasn't BAD to listen to by any means imo. So that's a wonderful start.

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Can't think of anything bad about it! Loved it!

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great *cough* critiques x3

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:< great critiques?

(merry christmas)

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I'm not a particularly musically creative person myself, but I had a listen and shall share my opinion!

I liked the overall melody that ran through the song, and thought that sounded really nice! I don't think that there was enough backing it up to do it justice though. Obviously you have all the other beats going on, but to me it felt like the whole song was a buildup to something that never came. I know that it fades out before coming back with more oomph twice, but I don't think there was enough backing up the lead melody in general. I can't say I know what should be added, but I think the backing beat needs a bit more power to it than the one you have there... When the cymbals come in, that's got the nice crisp kind of sound that gives it the kind of oomph it needs imo.

The little bit that comes in a couple of times (for example, at 2:38 before the cymbal crash) was nice, but I think it was a bit quiet. The instance where it comes in after seems to fade out entirely before the quick beepy end, although I'm not sure if that's intentional. I think it could do with being a little louder though, as it would be a welcome addition to the song! Alternatively, maybe it can be heard fine with good speakers and my laptop is pretty crap, as that's happened before...

I hope that helps somewhat. I think that if it had a bit of a stronger beat to it, it would be something I'd listen to a lot! :3


(merry christmas)

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I am not experienced in DAW usage, so please excuse my lack of terminology and experience. However, I hope you still review my critique as semi-useful.

zjC1116 seems to be a laid-back, more relaxing approach to the chiptune genre. If that's not the feel your going for, then something's wrong. I felt this way, because there were no sweeping noise waves, piercing chip voices or wobbly/vibrating/grace notes - things that I think really add to the melody of chiptunes. Though the song was not "blaghhh" as all; with the same basic background loop throughout the song, you did introduce many interesting lines so that it remained interesting.

(If this matters) As I listened to it, the first image that popped into my head was a platformer game similar to Cave Story. As justin_ator said, it has a great start, though I felt the last 2/3 felt that it repeated itself a bit - though this is not a bad thing! This reinforced my whole imagination of the platformer "loop-style" theme.

At the beginning half of the song, I could hear a faint background line. This felt like this should be brought out a bit more, as @1:00 it was barely noticable.
One flaw I noticed in this song was that there was not a lot of dynamic contrast. I noticed that @1:42 you brought the volume down a bit - but it was not enough to show a strong, bold contrast from the previous line.
@2:39, bring out that 16th stream A LOT. holy, those lines are the tasty gems; In my experience, that's the holy grail of chiptune music~ xD

You have a two second silence at the beginning of the song. I can only assume that this is because you are considering making a stepchart for this file (if not - disregard this). If so, I think emphasizing that 16th line @2:39 would be a necessity.



//2 cents (merry christmas)

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Prawnskunk says what I meant to say, only much better. From now on he can talk for me (about music critique. Talk of homosexuality if his own)

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i liek doods

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i liek doods too (thanks so much haha)

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as wildfire's representative, I'm glad you found both our CRITIQUES insightful.