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Black Waltz

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Updated: 9/5/2020


I kinda made this with a very specific scene in mind from a game I want to make one day:


A long, arduous hallway where two bastards (pictured in the Icon) periodically rush in and attack you before dashing off just as quickly; playing with their food so to speak.

As the player is making their way through this gauntlet they'll have to react by dodging or parrying this continuous assault before a proper boss fight with the aforementioned bastards.


The music being (what I understand as) a Waltz is supposed to be representative of this exchange being sort of like a Dance. The Bell in the song I like to interpret as the bastards tapping their spears, as if taunting the player.


As for the actual song itself, I really liked recontextualizing the strings and piano in the last bit, but I'm not sure it fits together too well. At the very least the piano sounds kind of scrawny. (I need to make time to study some mixing and music theory.)

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Cool title, and a neat premise! :)

If I may add my two cents: I imagine the hallway is in a castle with a very long carpeted floor, stone walls, and armored mannequins. It's got that "old-world-haunted-castle" tinge to it, IMO. Think Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe. If you don't like his work, please take what I said as a complement, as I mean it as one. The imagery you create is very interesting.

The only flaw see with this is technical. The song ends quite suddenly for a song that doesn't loop. I recommend changing the ending or at least editing the submission info, changing it from "Song" to "Loop."

I hope this feedback is helpful. :)

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Bansheebutt responds:

Hah, that's pretty much exactly what I was going for.
The character's I was associating this with are themed as chess Rooks and a Royal Guard, so I wanted something classy and sinister.

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/bansheebot/rook

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Uploaded
Jun 3, 2020
10:16 AM EDT
Genre
Classical
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3.7 MB
2 min 43 sec
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  • FL Studio

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