thanks for the feedback! to answer your questions, the reason why some of the instruments sound so compressed and the reverb sounds so jank in some sections is because i was working with fruity soundfont player (you can see in the description which games the soundfonts i used were from), and basically i played around a bit with increasing the release time, which i am aware sounds a bit awkward (which makes sense considering fruity soundfont player is a rather old and not very well supported plugin), but i tried my best to keep it hidden by using equalizers and extra reverb effect plugins n stuff (which i think mightve made the mixing worse but idk since this was my first attempt at using an equalizer to try and make one of my tracks sound better). also, since those sounds i was using originated from games on old nintendo handhelds, obviously they'll sound a bit compressed, and there's not much i can really do about that, so i kinda just have to play it off as if it's an aesthetic choice. regardless, thx :)