HoboKa's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Paranoia]

Reminds me of Chrono Trigger and Cross for some reason. Bit of Persona 3 as well actually.

[Anxiety]

Reminds me of one of the slower Doom 2 level themes. Maybe some Hexen vibe. Love the trap beat and swing to it, kinda trippy. Good work!

[Disorder]

This is some psychedelic ambient chill. Love it man!!

[Storms]

Nice melancholy wave. Love the analog pad played as a lead, good touch.

[OliRO - Dragon Warrior]

Man, why has Newgrounds neglected you like this? Its times like this that I question why I'm a paying supporter...but I mean, we need alternative User Generated content sites for a multitude of reasons...ANYWAYS, nerdy bitching aside, I think this is a fairly solid track. The mix could use some work, but I'm not a pro at mixing either. Not a fan of the clicky bass drum at 2:40 area...call me picky =p Otherwise solid tune mah boi. The pipe/glass flute is cool. The bell-key tines are dope. The beat is groovy. 2:20 breakdown bit without the bass to mix things up is a good idea. So ya, nice work imo.

OliRO responds:

Wow man thank you so much for the dope review! This was my second real finished track so there is definitely some polishing to do on it. I'm glad it got such a good review tho, not gonna lie this makes me happy :D

[WIP NG VGM - Twilight Jungle]

Nice rhythm and soundscape <3

[Twilight Jungle]

Whew, that's some tough critique to deal with, but I think its good to get feedback (I suck at taking feedback, due to some learning disabilities rofl (edit) not to say that I can't do it, but it's an uphill thing for me). My thoughts on your tune personally?? I think this is a pretty solid tense jungle theme, and the minimalism does it credit. Reminds me of classic jungle thriller movies like Rambo and Predator. And the jungle FX remind me of David Wise.

[Variations on Endless Handbag]

Impressive instrumentation and vocals. Had my head nodding and foot stamping to the beat. Such good timeless* awesomeness.

[Serenity]

Very relaxing. Love the percussive garnishes at 0:55 especially.

[Space Foot | The Complete OST - 2010]

Awww sad to hear about that. I hate it when I lose my art stuff too...Some really creative melodies and I'm impressed with the compositional skill all throughout. Odd choice to go all piano, then again, if this was like a black and white ye olden times thing game, it'd be really dope. Captain General Fathead (Final Form) version 2 is my favorite, great dynamics and those low keys really slap. Nice work!
LOL Track 11...that is EarthWorm Jim shit there.
Edit 2, Arcade Rag is really well made too. How did you come up with these tunes? Just blew me away there lol.

Bertn1991 responds:

Much appreciated as always. Yeah, losing files is always rough. I don't get viruses that often, but in 2017 I got hit with ransomware that corrupted most of my stuff. I had backups of a lot of it, but not all. Big oof.

Honestly, I have no idea why the soundtrack is all piano. I had Game Maker directly play the MIDI files, but I believe general MIDI has 127 instruments to choose from. Who knows. I made the soundtrack with Noteworthy Composer and it comes bundled with a bunch of demo tracks, and some of them were from Scott Joplin (the ragtime guy!), so I took a lot of inspiration from those songs.

Thanks for listening. You #1 :D