FantasistEldrun's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[DJ Jini VS. DJ Immy - ~Crystal Frostroad~ {NGMC 2025}]

Well, fully race-themed, but I would not specially see this in an arctic scene, I could tho imagine it in a city race, or a retro videogame race in a stadium, maybe I'm missing the vibe too... At the whole end it is very ambient, but again, it feels to me more hopeful than specially cold or arctic.

Overall nice song, I like how it feels like "pushing to the greatest" (Sorry I dont know how to tell this)

Overall ranking : 8/10
Theming rank : 6/10

[Polar Drift (w/ X3ll3n) [NGMC 2025]]

As expected for me very early in the competition, there are plural DnB entries. I am not blaming DnB as it is a genre I like, but well, even when the actual music is more than decent, the style choice has been used many times :/

Excepted that, it feels pretty well the theme, and I dont see much to say about. For this I would need to add a distinction too

Overall ranking : 8/10
Theming rank : 7/10
Contest rank (In all my own criterias that are not to be considerated) : 6/10

Snikio responds:

thank you so much!!
I'll think about ways to refine this and make it even more special

[Windswept In The Chilly Nostalgia]

Well, this is not a style I were expecting, this track is pretty original. In the context of the entry, it could really evoke me a race, I have a scene in mind while listening to it, the only thing that perturbates me... Well, since I started to write this before the end of the song, I need to delete what I were writing. Anyway, nice work. Tho the style itself reminds me of pokemon retro games

Overall ranking : 8/10
Theming rank : 8/10

ZuwerWS responds:

If I could ask you, what was the thing you were meaning to write? You got me curious

[Chrome Frost (ft. 3manon)]

Well, the drumnbass genre sure gives itself a race theme, a genre that I like too, and the ambience was basically evoking something that felt cold, so it was (I think) a good entry for the theme. Not giving a 10 tho because it was switching between Arctic theme and race theme without evoking both in the same time at any moment in this song - Imo at least. In an overall rank, I would say the music is actually well diriged, ambiancing, but (here is the problem of most of DnB tracks imo) very repetitive from 1:30 to 2:00

Overall ranking : 8/10
Theming rank : 7/10

[Frosty Glide Ride]

Honnestly I can feel the Mariokart sounding here, so I see the actual race atmosphere. But I dont feel this so "Arctic themed", I personally already have too much of the mk8's races in mind so it feels more for me like the yoshi circuit of the dlc

Edit : Tbh after listening to the OST of the yoshi's circuit again, I agree it's not very similar. I dont know why I imaginated this circuit in my mind when listening to the song still xD

Overall rating : 8/10
Theming rate : 5/10

Everratic responds:

Thanks for stopping by to leave a review! I listened to the Yoshi's Circuit track from MK8 and couldn't identify the similarity, but I still get that it doesn't fit what you had in mind for an arctic theme.

[PURIWORUKATO!]

This reminds me a bit of the songs from The Prodigy. Very interesting song !

CasualBreather responds:

Thanks! I grew up with Prodigy so I may have been influenced a lot! It's a big compliment!

[Is it ever gonna be alright]

Very emotional lyrics if you get it right

Nice instrumental

I dont understand if someone vote less than 10/10, it's a bad note for this song, this shall be higher ...

CasualBreather responds:

Thanks Fantasist ! Don't exagerate it xD, still a pleasure to read tho :3 !!

[Unimportance - Restricted Area]

It feels as much hiphop than dnb, very weird track, but good. I dont really know what to think about it.

Unimportance responds:

That's right, it's not DNB

It's a very strange track. But there's something about him.

experimental breaks

[Degenerate freestyle day 1]

What could I say ?

Oh yeah. DON'T DO THIS.

[(3) Im Tired]

LEGENDS NEVER DIE. HAPPY COME BACK !!