Score: 8
"Crunchy? In milk?"
date: May 4, 2008
So I couldn't come up with a summary, sue me :P
Intro (0:00-0:28) - This really had a nice uplifting feel, but it was also kinda ambient. It was a real mixer-upper, so to speak, and I feel it worked well. As the bass beat started coming in it began to fill out, but this really was a sheer intro with no real meat to it. It did its job fine, don't get me wrong, but I mighta liked to see something a bit less ambient-trancey.
Build 1 (0:28-0:42) - This little buildup section worked very well, I thought, though the return to the intro theme was perhaps not warranting of something that sounded like this. The bass in here was really intense and once he melody came back in it felt for a moment like it would be a lot more intense to match, but then we get hit with that ambient-trance intro segment again... I personally didn't think it really needed this level of a buildup.
Body 1 (0:43-1:12) - This started pretty intense, but the intense backbeat really overshadowed the frontal theme, I felt once more that the intro theme, which at this point is really recurring, needed more, y'know, "oomph", so to speak. It's kind of getting drowned out a bit by the action in the background which is traditionally supposed to support the theme, not override it.
Note Regarding 1:12 - I like that piano-ish sound that comes into the background around here. It helps to mellow the piece out a bit, even though it isn't terribly audible for the next portion of the piece.
Body section 2/Build 2 (1:12-2:35) - This section really acts like a body but doubles as a buildup, which I liked for being somewhat unique. The original melody really does get overpowered in the background here with all the additions, though, which I found a bit sub-optimal. A stronger intro theme, as I've advocated all along this review, would likely have served you better. Despite the swamping of the main theme I liked this section a lot save for one other thing: it was a bit... loud. You don't have to make every new addition swamp the previous in terms of volume ;)
Theme Break 1 (2:35 - 5:07 ) - This is a good change in theme that I've been waiting for! It really stands out a lot better with other instruments layered in while still conveying the "chill" feeling the original theme had. This section is long and practically acts as a body, if not for the fact that it doesn't match up theme-wise with the rest of your song. However, once again, it starts gaining perhaps a bit too much volume towards the end.
Body 3/Theme Reprise (5:07 - 6:31) - I like how you got the original theme to stand out a lot better here and seemed to have fixed the volume issues of the previous segments. Not much else to be said, it was how the first part of the song probably should have been.
Outro (6:31 - end) - Just a nice crash out, not much else to be said.
Well, I'm running close to 1,000 characters remaining so I'll wrap this up. All in all the song has a lot of potential, but a few volume issues towards the end of the segments as well as slightly unnecessary buildups and such seem to result in a bit of a random moshpit of a song for a lot of the time. I know you can do better, and by no means is this a bad song, just I kind of expected more. If you fix the volume issues and rearrange a bit of the song's priorities perhaps you'd have a real masterpiece on your hands. As it stands the song is good, but not great, so I'll give it an 8 out of 10. I'll skip on the download, though, my hard drive is full enough of newgrounds music as it is D;