Hikigane's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[FFX - Normal Battle]

great work

FFX's battle theme is the one i usually think of when i think of a random encounter. You captured that really nicely with this remix. Great job!

[Final Fantasy VIII-Boss Battle]

Solid, solid...

Needs a bit more contrast between the main melody and the lower harmonic parts, that or just make the bass stand out a bit more. Otherwise, I really like this one.

[FF7- Still More Fighting remix]

Cool, but...

What's with the volume fluctuating? Is it supposed to do that? If it is, I'd change that, it makes it sound a little funky... But otherwise, extremely impressive. Good job.

Dreamcastle responds:

That's the manifestation of my inexperience with using compressing and limiters. This song gave me so much hell when it came to mixing. I might fix it when I'm a bit more knowledgeable.

[KR- Megaman Zero 2 Opening]

Killer!

I think the drums could have been done a little better though. In fact, my personal opinion is to take the drums out entirely, and give the trumpet-sounding instrument at around 1:02-1:16 a bit more echo or something to them so they don't sound so 8-bit-ish.

The Piano could also go with some soft echo to give it a bit more feeling.

Otherwise, i REALLY like this, and not just cuz i love the original version XD Good work!

knuxrouge responds:

I'm pretty bad with drums, but thanks though.

[ATHF Theme Remix]

never heard the original...

its a pretty good song though. like how you did it, i'd have to listen to the original to know how it differs though. 9/10 :D

[Trust Issues]

word

you got a nice song goin here. a little repetitive admittedly, but its really nice otherwise. I got no other words; keep up the good work, find yoself a singa yo!

but you knew that. hah. 8/10.

[Reckless Youth (demo)]

Meh.

You DID say this was a demo, which i'm thankful for, cuz if you hadn't specified that i woulda been a little... scared. As stated before, this DOES have potential... The vocals are a bit weird with the flanger-sounding FX and the guitar drowns out the vocals. otherwise i say that you could go REALLY far with this song.

SwampWater responds:

Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it and I'm working really hard and investing a good bit of money into polishing this song and making it sound a million miles better!

[[oove] Oriens]

Reminds me of something from Square Enix...

I Like the soft fantasy-like feel. Seems like the main menu theme of something by Square Enix. And i LOVE Square's soundtracks. Bravo, bravo. I wanna hear more stuff like this one :D

broove responds:

Thanks man. I'm glad you liked it ;)