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Reviews for "_-={Wolven Shrine}=-_"

great

ey meastro, thats a great song

every instrument in this piece is so good mixed together,
i dont know what to say, i love your work
the uplifting feel in this dunno how to explain, its step by step every part has his own feeling

the backround violin fits perfect for the rest
and how you mixed the strings with flute is genius, i think its one of your best, i always listend to your music, but im kina lazy to review

my only advice is the intro, with the twinkle or whatever it is, the first notes are okay, but the first notes after the little break, didnt fitted really ni there

overall great track

i have to say sorry for my bad english

MaestroRage responds:

Thats okay Zajed. I am glad you listen to these works, it makes me happy to know you enjoy them :)!

It's strange, many people don't seem to like the flute and strings part, but I personally kinda like them. So they will stay!

The intro WAS a little weak in my opinion, but I didn't know who else to start the piece, so I did it like that. Maybe I should have some low strings with the celesta bells?

In any case, thank you kindly for the review, i'm glad you liked it!

A warrior wounded...but not forgotten...

This piece shows the true courage of any true warrior that fights for that which is righteous! Just listening to it fill me with such energy that I must be typing this review in record time! Anyways on to the story. A warrior who is seeking to avenge his fallen father from a hedious villan is struck hard while fighting the vile creature in a cemetary. We can see him kneeling on the ground his sword in hand keeping him up while his free hand covers his wound. The villain merely grins in satisfaction and taunts the young warrior. "How pathetic. Killed by the same man that killed your father." The young warrior looks up and says to the villain, "The one thing I truly cherished...the one thing that mattered most...you take it from me...WHY!?!" The villain walks forward with his blood-stained sword with quiet steps, still grinning and says, "Your father just had to interfere with my business to assasinate the King. Because his stupid sacrifice the King escaped and I lost quite a sum of money. He interfered with my business and any and all who do such a stupid act will meet death by my hand." The young warrior is infuriated by this horrendous villain and tries to rush forward but is merely kicked back by the villain in his open wound. The young man whinces as the wound opens further which only increases the pain he is already in. The villain laughes evily and says, "Well boy, this is where you die! One thing is truly certain. You are no warrior at all!" The villain charges forward to finish the young warrior but as he charges he is shocked at the warriors eyes. "His eyes...they look just like a wolf's eyes when it gets angry...but how?!" Just before the villain's sword can reach the young warrior's heart he pivots the sword away and spins, slicing cleanly through the villain's stomach, which afterwards his heart is pierced. The villain merely stares back the enraged warrior and the warrior mutters, "You might...have been mistaken...about me..." And pulls his sword with the last bit of his strength. The villain stumbles back in disbelief over his error as his life slowly leaves his eyes. The young warrior slowly walks to his father's grave while bandaging his wound. He grabs a fresh rose among the tombstones and when he reaches his father's grave he clutches the rose petals and lets them fall slowly and silently to his father as he whispers, "Free you father...as you may now rest in peace..." Hold you parents close Maestro. They may not like your greatest gift, but they still hold you dear as their son. Perhaps some day...they will learn to appreciate the gift of music that God has blessed you with. Keep up the good work...

MaestroRage responds:

Hello Zen!

Sorry for the late response my good sir, I did not realize there were many reviews I did not respond to in these previous couple of works.

Your story is one I read while listening to in perfect sync. Everything I read synced up perfectly with the piece and that was an excellent experience! Especially when the part came in for the wolven eyes the enraged child has! What a shiver that sent down my spine!

As for my parents Zen, I do not blame them for what they are, or what they do, they are who they are, and though they do not understand how I feel, or what I do, I am nobody to claim anything. I can respect their feelings, but I will not respect their wishes for me to stop. It is merely not in my agenda.

Thank you for your ongoing support Zen. It is late now, but I have finally found your new chapters in my inbox, I WILL read them tomorrow, and I WILL respond. You've sent them to me nearly a WHOLE month ago! That is not acceptable on my end. I apologize for the very delayed response for those chapters.

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

Always sad when a site shuts down...

What sort of site was it? I'm guessing the wolves have something to do with it...

A lonely feel is what I'm getting, though it becomes quite defiant and powerful once the timpani comes in... then there's the section that begins at around 1:46, at which point the song becomes a lot darker, angry, even. This song changes quite a bit... hmm. I don't quite like the note the song ends on - I see a trend... you seem to end abruptly on many of your songs. Now that I think about it, I can't believe it took me this long... XD But work on those endings! ;)

Another thing - maybe it's my headphones, maybe it's Newgrounds - I wouldn't be surprised if it was, actually - but I hear clipping in the beginning and end (it could possibly be in other places but I can't find it) of the song, and it seems to be on the part of the wolf sounds. I see down there that you just googled for them - ha, you're pretty lucky to find such good ones for free and with google but you can't forget sound quality when choosing them. ;) Aah, I'm hearing it with the choir - while it's hard to hear at first, the distortion gives itself away around 1:09-ish, or something like that. And I'm pretty sure you didn't google those samples... don't tell me you're getting lazy with the sound quality, now! XD

I'm not so sure about that flutelike instrument... It starts around the two-minute mark and it seems it was just "dropped on there" for the medieval sort of feeling. That spot could have gone to another instrument for adding to the dark feeling, which would have definitely worked out better, I think...

Hah! I just saw the timer go to 1:60. XD Ha, it goes to 0:60, too. Sometimes the redesign glitches are just... too funny. XD

I suppose nothing's left to add to the song except a nice story... >:) I'm on time constraints so it won't be too long but I'll try.

The sun sets on the far side of the mountain... a group of hikers climb it slowly, tired out from the hard work of a long, long day. They're not too far up - they're essentially in a slanted forest. Trees are plentiful where they are, as is wildlife, and there's no snow. They hear the wolves howling off in the distance but think nothing of it.

It's dark now. A campfire is made and sleeping bags are put out, tents are lifted. But in the middle of this hard work, a forceful gale begins to blow - the fire disappears and tents are blown away. Even the stars and moon seem to have been snuffed out.

One of the campers stands up and looks around. His friends are still there. He hears a wolf howl, and turns - to see one of his friends replaced by darkness. Wolves howl again and he turns to see two more have disappeared. He fumbles for a flashlight, a lighter, a match, just ANY source of light - but finds none. Fear grips him and he starts turning in circles, seeing now nothing but darkness.

A wolf strikes the camper, jumping onto him. He fights back but is quickly knocked out... and, unfortunately, killed.

The wolf howls.

Another great song, I enjoyed it! Hope you enjoy the review, and the story, as always... :) I recently uploaded a song that my friend and I collabed on while I taught him the basics of FL Studio, how about you stop by my page, give it a listen sometime? Much appreciated... and keep up the great work! :)

MaestroRage responds:

Hello Karco!

Sorry for my late response! The endings of my songs ARE abrupt, often. I do this mostly because I hate fade outs, and really I find if I don't make it abrupt they tend to drag on and on. But you're right, this is a flaw, and I should find a way through it.

The site was called rpg wolfpack, hence the reason for the wolves.

The song was also designed to be as RPG'ish as possible, which is why the flute part is up for debate by many, I thought it would be more RPG like to put them in there. I might have been wrong.

The song picks up, as it was my way of showing our strength. We have disbanded, but we have not weakened. We have taken many skills over the years, and taken up many crafts, and armed with these we walked away, true Wolves in heart, and a promise to always prosper.

The song was meant to be much much longer, but due to external project deadlines, had to be cut down.

In regards to the story, I loved it >:}. Those poor campers didn't see it coming, and I could visualize it quite well! I will go check out that friends piece right away!

Thank you for the review, i'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm sorry for the late response!

hello again

Is this your 1st submission to this updated NG? Ohh the wolves..duh. Good title name. Feels like I'm in the arctic. Again a dramatic song. I like the triplets going on. The umm piccolo? doesn't really match the drama of this song. Its too happy for this piece. How did you make the wolf howling sound....or where did you get it? It sounds so real. Overall another great song. Umm 5/5 and ohh now I can give stars. :) 10 stars. I love that choir too. Your my 1st review for this new ng update thing. Bye for now

MaestroRage responds:

Hello Music-Story!

The wolve howls are some sound effects I found on the internet. Sadly I do not recall where exactly as I just googled "Wolf Howls" and downloaded anything within a thirteen mile radius.

The howls were all compressed to 20kb/s and the static and muddy sound they had was painful. Through some equally painful equalizing and filtering later, I was able to isolate the main bulk of the howl and keep it's impact.

I'm proud to be your first new NG review! Thank you for that, i'm glad you liked the piece ^^.

Yayage!

At first the disortion thingy you had annoyed me a bit, but that mallet instrument thing you have there is damn great. Strings as usual, chords sound basically... good, and they fit nicely in. Drum sound like it's panned a bit too much to the left. Flute is great too. Awesome work!

MaestroRage responds:

the drums sound too panned? Odd, I do not remember putting a pan on it. Though I may very well have done so as I was having some mastering issues early on in the game for this piece.

The flute is an area of debate between listeners. Some feel it's good, some feel it's crap. The overall concept of this piece is geared towards making it sound as RPG'ish as possible. The site that shut down forever is called RPGWolfpack.com

it now links to another site, at least for the time being...

In any case, thank you for the review SBB, i'm glad you liked it!