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Reviews for "_-={These games we play}="

This is the song I found interesting...

And that's because it stars the piano. :D I've seen songs of yours with the piano playing a front role but none so much as this one... and the piano being a favorite of mine, I HAD to review it. ;)

Simple, quiet intro. It builds... I get the image of some huge building or mountain from far away, towering over you even at a distance, giving the feeling of insignificance.

Piano gains complexity, nice. I especially like the composing in the higher range... when it goes down in some kind of arpeggio is my favorite part. :D

It seems to get a bit TOO complex in places - there seems to be a slight excess of instruments. And even if it feels like they're all necessary, which it often does, you could at least have EQed/mastered it a bit better... it's a little fuzzy at times.

Lastly - while your style is vibrant in this song, it's different - everything's different and it's almost a transformed version of your style, making it feel especially fresh, new, etc. compared to your other songs.

I don't have much else to say about the song technically, great as it is... so I'll move to the story.

A man enters a company building and applies for a job there. He gets it, and as the bottom-rung employee, begins to work.

Coming home one day early on in his career he tells his family he's begun a big project. It'll be the project of his career that he will be constantly be working on throughout. They wish him luck.

Months pass, followed by years. As his project progresses he climbs the ladder and slowly gains in position at his job - and in popularity, among his peers. He's finally getting somewhere.

This project often gets held back, hindered, or damaged. Many trials are faced, and sometimes it seems it will be ruined. But he doesn't give up, he keeps on going and the project becomes bigger and bigger, looking to be a success.

And then, one day, this man comes back from home, broken. He has been, unfortunately, fired from his job. His project, conveniently, was destroyed on the same day. His family asked him what his project was. The man answered. "That project," he said, "was my reputation."

So what do you think? It's something I thought up and it fit this song, in my opinion, remarkably well. It's also one of my favorites that I've given so far... :) Great work overall, Maestro, it's a 5 and a download for you.

MaestroRage responds:

Hey Karco! Thanks again for the review, also thanks for giving the heads up... sometimes I wish so hard that they would just put in the review alert system...

Anyways, lets get onto your points.

You know, the inspiration behind this piece was a rather strange one. I was listening to this song, made for an anime series (I love anime soundtracks, even though the series itself may suck, the composers for the tracks are generally very good)

In any case, in this song, the composer created a melody, the dominant melody, and then in the background, was an entirely different melody. It didn't make any sense with the other melody, and because it was made into half ambient, it didn't clash TOO much, but the experience was very very interesting. Two melodies playing at once... a mess, but workable.

Which is why this piece may have that attribute. There are parts, where there are 7 separate melodies going off at once. Sadly due to the delay and other effects melody lines are lost, but trust me, there are enough melodies going off at once here.

As for this story. Reputation is a project we all seem to take on, even if it's not with a conscious mind. But that the man would aim towards just this goal, seems both shallow, yet at the same time shows qualities of dedication.

This story will have me thinking for a while I can assure you.

In any case, I am very grateful for the review, thank you for it, i'm glad you liked the piece!

Stormy

I loved the delay on the piano. Perfect. It shows you put in a lot of effort. Another thing that stood out was the blaring horns. Really powerful :)

I liked the that little run in the end as well.

The song builds well and stays interesting. Good job!

Check out my stuff if you have time. Most are orchestral, and a few are darker and industrialish, kindof what you'd mix to get your music. :)

-Meteorsuit

MaestroRage responds:

This song was actually the song that let me learn about Staccato French Horns *the blaring horns*, and like you, I felt they were awesomely awesome with awesome toppiongs on epicly fantastic sauce.

I will check out your page I swear it! Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it!

I love orchestral :')

outstanding

absolutely incredible, dumb idea putting this incredible piece on newgrounds. 10/10

MaestroRage responds:

heh, I appreciate the concern btriangle, but I put all my work up here because I WANT it to be free. I started this with the motto "Forever For Free" and I intend to stick with that! Any piece that I make purely for myself and not commissioned will automatically find it's way to here and other places I can share it for free!

Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it ^^.

Wow..

Ive already listen'd to all of your others and rated them, all of your audios are smart vivid and clear to your discreption as an idea of what to think of while listening. all are greatly epic, and i'll make sure that my submissions will be usefull for newgrounds frum now on.
;_)

MaestroRage responds:

i'm glad you feel that way, I try to keep all the submissions as thought invoking as I can. I firmly believe that if a song can take away the listener to another world, and for one moment be somewhere else and live another world, then it's all worth it. None of these pieces in my opinion are yet strong enough to truly take people to the planes of existence I want, for I have yet to build the craft to that level, but I will one day, I implore you to also consider what exactly you want to do with your own submissions, and drive towards that end.

In any case, i'm grateful for the review, thanks for that, i'm glad you liked the work ^^.

Good piece of audio

Sounds very "Kingdom-Hearts"-esque. And I love Kingdom Hearts, and this piece of audio.

Good job. (only put a lower mark for Originality because it sounds too much like Kingdom Hearts.

MaestroRage responds:

Does it?! I havn't played Kingdom Hearts that much, but I would really love to hear the song that sounds like this...

Oh well, it is very likely I used some Nobuo influence, that man inspires me greatly with his music.

Thank you for the review, i'm glad you enjoyed the piece!