Decky's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Expression]

It's very retro but because of this it suffers from some of the down sides of retro video game audio tracks. I'm not the best correct terminology for audio but i'll try my best here. It seems very grainy, after a couple of loops it starts to hurt the ear and for a video game loop that is bad as it'd probably be playing over and over again in the background of a level or something.

It's not all bad though, it reminded me of something that'd be on one of the early Worms games.

Irtorius responds:

That which hurts your ears is just probably just my bad mixing =P

It's good that I caught that retro feel at least, and that it wasn't all bad =)

[GSC Rocket Battle (16 bit]

A great version of the song, it instantly took me back all those years ago to when I first played the Pokemon series. I thought that the use of the X1 guitars was a good call. I'll be honest and say I'm not quite sure what that means but I do know that the guitars where a definite highlight.

I could really see this being used in some old style Pokemon parody.

chaoticmarin responds:

The X1 guitars, ESPECIALLY the distortion guitar sound just... They have a very different sound to them. Compare Storm Eagle to one of the guitar heavy X2 or X3 boss stage themes to see what I mean.

[Rotten]

When I first started to listen I thought that maybe this had been put under the wrong genre but up on reading the author comments and seeing "Dream Theater" being mentioned I thought that it might have got a bit heavier, maybe I'm thinking of the wrong band. The name Rotten is a little confusing to as you think Rotten, heavy metal. This should be pretty heavy shit. Anyway thats trivial stuff so can't judge too harshly for that.

For what it was it was a good song and I did enjoy it. I found it to kind of relaxing in a strange way as for your comment about the guitar being way too loud I don't think it was that loud to be honest. I think it adds to the song, it'd seem a tad more boring if that was made to be more quiet.

So, yeah. Good song just maybe think of better names ;).

Mau3000 responds:

My sincere thanks!
The name Rotten has to do with my mistake with the guitar... When I first listened, I said: "Cool, the guitar is freaking loud. I just got my song rotten."

Again, thanks for listening!
See ya!

[Monster Encounter]

Not too bad, though it is a little generic to the extent that I feel like I have heard it a thousand times before I've even listened to it all the way through once. This could be a good thing as if I was looking for an RPG boss battle music loop and happened to stumble across this I'd use it, although it really doesn't stand out from the crowd.

scartheatre responds:

Yup, I was totally just playing with a simple melody and thought to make it a standard oldschool RPG battle theme. Glad you semi-dig it!

[Bass and Drum Rape]

Firstly I like the name. I think that the intro is a little slow and could have dpone with a couple of seconds taking off it, also I don't think that this classes as grunge. All in all it wasn't too bad although I think that it could have benifited with a couple of more hours working on it.

Jayson420 responds:

thanks for the comment man, I can never figure out what genre I should put shit under. But about the song and stuff, it's actually the third part of a 3 piece improvised random little recording me and my bassist did when our singer couldn't come record, called "Dan and Jay's Carnival Fun Time" http://soundcloud.com/spiritofthewildfire/dan-and-jays-carnival-fun-time

Thank for the comment though man!

[Odyssey of Centuries]

My first impression of the song was that of surprise with the almost techno start up to the song, I liked it though. When the guitar kicked in it reminded me of the sort of thing that would be at home in a later, softer Metallica song. This combined with the keyboard lead me to imagine it was something that Metallica and Rammstein would create if they were ever to collab on something, maybe a bit of Fear Factory thrown in there. A great song, well done.

DanJohansen responds:

Wow you analyzing is definitely interesting, and Metallica and Rammstein collabing would be very interesting XD Thanks for your kind words man, ROCK ON!

[Life Systems Regenerated]

I liked the sample at the start and I think this blended into the guitar very well. With the drums this reminds me of a kind of lighter Ziltoid by Devin Townsend. If I could have made any changes it would to have slightly less keyboard in there or maybe louder drums but I think that is down to personal taste. Keep it up and keep rocking mate.

DanJohansen responds:

Haven't heard Ziltoid by Townsend, I would def like to check it out, maybe link me via PM :)
Anyways, glad you like it! ROCK ON!

[Boss Battle (Loop)]

Pretty Standard, Pretty Retro

I can't really fault it to be honest, I would easily consider it if I was creating a sprite game and needed a loop for a boss battle. The only thing I didn't really like was the slow bit towards the end of the loop. I'm guessing you were trying to add something that would make it less repetitive but I don't think that it really worked.

Other then that it's great.

4/5

[Dj Sonik - Glacier (Previ]

Not Bad, Man

I do like the general feel of this loop. I will possibly be using this in a Flash in the future. I'm not very good at talking about audios that I like so this may seem brief, but yeah............ it's good. Keep it up :).

4/5

DreamEater responds:

Thanks very much sir; I'm really honored that you might consider this song for a flash animation, and I'm really glad you enjoyed it :D

[5o9- dude]

Well It's Short....

...But i like it ;).

It easily could have been improved by making it longer though, even if it was just to make it a 30 second loop. just to give it a little more before it repeats. but for just 17 seconds this is really good.

3/5

Killa5o9 responds:

Lol, this is something I made a long time. Wasn't really trying, so I thought I'd upload it for the heck of it. Thanks for the review. :P