FantasistEldrun's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tour pela Praia do Espelho]

Well, not everyone will agree with me, but I dont feel it as 'race'. I feel like I already heard a part of the melody somewhere even if I dont know where. The overall music is good, and I can hear the tropical part in it.

Overall rating : 7/10
Tropical theming : 6/10, not as present as in other ngmc tracks for r2.
Racing theming : 4/10, I dont feel it but some has felt it, so I dont know.

Albe responds:

This comment is entirely subject to MY opinions on the matter, not Everratic's, so take it out with me in any case. "Not everyone will agree with me" i have good news for you, literally everyone else agrees. it's literally the 4th comment that mentions it. I know all of you expected some high-energy high-adrenaline supersonic-lightspeed dubstep or trance music to accompany the vibes race usually have because typically race = fast, but if you look at mario kart wii for example you'll find many of the songs there are just like this, chill, but on a faster tempo. Or maybe I just enjoy shattering everyone else's expectations with ludonarrative dissonance. Anyways, I'll make sure to include more serum 2 dubstep factory presets next time I make a tropical track so I can bump up the "tropical" theming a little bit further. Thanks for your feedback!

[The Cumbia Course]

Well, for a track itself, it deserves more than these 3 little stars... But knowing the actual theming behind it, I don't understand. It does absolutely not sound like a tropical or race theme to me even though the music is good.

Theming : Tropical theme : 2.5/10
Racing theme : 2/10
General : 8/10

DaxCamdaxian responds:

It's cool to see the difference between cultures through music, in my country, cumbia, which is the genre of our song, is deeply rooted in tropical music, there's even a subgenre called tropical cumbia

I appreciate that even though you don't feel the theme is applied to the song, you enjoyed it. Thank you for listening to it! :)

[Shoreline (ft. Solacitude)]

The race feeling is very present here. I feel it . The tropical is here too, even when the actual tropical theme is not as present as in some other entries in my opinion of what is a tropical music.

Overall : Great job. 8/10.
Tropical theme : Present. 7/10.
Race theme : 10/10.

[[NGMC2025] Apeleration]

Thought the actual way it turns into derision the theming were funny xD
I like behind it the racing theme is here, into the rythm tho

Overall rating : 9/10, pretty fun... But since it is less than 2 minutes long, my usual penalty is to set a -0.5, so I set 8.5/10 on it.
Theming rate for Tropical theming : 8/10, bc the way it was integrated is pretty funny
Theming rate for Race theming : 8/10, well made into this

[Josip Broz Tito Snaking at Guam]

Feels tropical to me. As for the R1, the music seems like an OST for a racing videogame made for kids. Nicely made, I like it x)

Mixing : 9/10
Theming for Tropical Theme : 10/10. I can really feel it into the song. Especially after the "lap 2" starts, it feels like mariokart theme for it's tropical races.
Racing theme : 10/10. Reminds me of mariokart, which is obviously a race game.

[Vanuatu [NGMC 2025]]

I agree for the waterflame vibes, sounds a bit like Race Around the World imo, so the race theme is here to me. The variations gave it a tropical aspect, added to an unusual pirate theming that I were not expecting to see here. I am not in position to criticize this music xD

Theming :
Tropical : 10/10. I can't say much more. Vanuatu gives it's own tropical vibe which I like.
Racing : 8/10. I can associate it to Race Around the World as I said earlier, and the waterflame music is considerated as a race music, but I never really had a race vibe with it. Though, your song, here, have it's own elements, and it's not a simple race around the world copy, so I'd tell it's more racy than race around the world in my opinion.

General rating : 10/10. Great song.

[[NGMC 2025] X3ll3n - Beach Race (w/ Snikio)]

Itself, I liked the actual music.
The race theme was here, and I could feel the tropical theme too.
Pretty short music too, which I found pretty sad.

For the music itself :Beach Race has some interesting aspects, but the music is too short to really enjoy them. I think it could have been more exploited by making the music a little longer. Basically a 8/10, but since it's not even 2 minutes long, I'd set 7.5/10.
For the theming : The tropical aspect is here for the first time in the music I listened to from this round so far, i'd give the tropical theme like 8/10 and the racing theme 10/10 (I thought myself "this could be good for a race in a videogame")

[Chocnoon x ArikXu - Summer Breeze (DCLXXI)]

Well, I'm not as @ZuwerWS , I can't understand a single word of what's being said here ^^'

Not my style of music still, I dont listen much trance music.
I feel the race theme here, nice beat (actually not meaning to be crual but it's one of the only things I like in the music too :/)

Listening to my personal opinion for the music, it'd not be a good vote. But being completely objective, the mixing of the song seems good to me. I'd tell it's like... Idk, minimum of 6/10.

Summer Breeze have this vibe for a race, with a music getting faster and slower smoothly, or it feels so. So for me, it's like a 8/10 for racing theme.
But once again as I said in other places, guess the fact I didn't understand the lyrics didn't help, but where is the tropical aspect ? I dont hear it in any part of the music personally. So for the tropical theming, I'd give it either a 0 or a 2 for the actual "party" aspect that could remain of summer that itself could remain of beach as said in the title that itself COULD remain of a tropical island...... Goes too far for me to go that deep to find tropical aspect. Sorry if this seems crual to you, not the goal of the review.

[TheBroox2000 & Itz_Gamepoint - Beach Rush (NGMC 2025 Entry)]

Being honest, the actual song feel kinda "racy" to me, I do not agree to MWM (...) on this point, though I agree for the fact that I dont here what is tropical in this song, sorry.

I would tell that in general terms, "Beach Rush" would be a nice music, like 7/10.
For the actual tropical theme, sorry, it's a 0 to me.
And for the race theme, I can actually feel something, i'll give it a 5/10.

[~Stay~]

Okay, you're at your own level.

2nd music I listen from you, and I know this will not be the last one.

Preds responds:

thank you! it means a lot :>