FantasistEldrun's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Polar Drift (with 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

[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

[Toxidrome]

Well, I really like the tone of the music !

The ambiance in it can be felt, to be honest I could easily see this in a videogame, I dont exactly know in what part of the game this'd be, like, maybe a dialog cinematic, or, a background music for a place... I dont know.

At the end of the music there'd be something intimidating and mysterious that you want to understand - Like in the music itself, do you get me ? ^^'

For the music itself, it's excellent, I dont have much to say. Nothing to criticize or what, sorry for the "Not-very-constructive" feedback ^v^'

Marscael responds:

Thanks. I'd say this was a useful review actually. Imagining where or how a track can be used gives ideas for future projects. :D

[Unbroken - DrBlacker Ft. DJDj]

Honestly this is going directly into my heart
No defense against this music...
Just... Thanks for this music... I dont know why I am so impacted by this but thank you...

NeoAlchemist247 responds:

It means so much to me when my music has an emotional impact on others. Thank you for taking the time to make a comment so I could know how strongly it resonated with you.

And you are most certainly welcome, friend.

[A loss]

Wow...

Anyone sang on this ? Anyone supposed to do it ?

Sorry for your cat... (And for you)

baryiscool responds:

me and one of my friends made a unreleased (funny) rap song from it
to lighten the mood
but that will never see the light of day

[Unravel]

I really like the ambiance, but there is a certain thing in the background (I cant tell what it is) that is making the music passing from chill to very stressing, I dont know if this is wanted, but I was like having short breath and stressed like ever, this feels strange

Powerful music !

Marscael responds:

I'm actually happy you see it that way. I should have probably mentioned in the description that these tracks are meant to have an anxious nature. most of them also have a distorted version :)