CrunchyOrphan's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rise Your Sword]

o.O i'm on edge

Hehe, you conveyed this battle tension so well, i'm looking around for the charging enemy O.O. Like there's the slightest bit of glory in the beginning around 0:15, then it shifts into something a little more aggressive at 0:30, then it finally breaks into the evilish, dark, foreboding tentacles of warrish thing at 0:58, the theme that appears at about 1:10, works in this feeling of apprehension, and the climax at 1:27-ish with the cymbals and the strings ( i think?) was crazy. When it ended, it was like "Here they Come!" Lol, sorry, I have quite an imagination XD. And so do you, I can see (hear). Great job, I went through quite an array of images and emotion listening to this. I guess my favorite part was how you opened up with that drumming and then the bass drums between 0:50 and 1:00. Awesome, awesome, I really enjoyed this.
__Crunchy

sorohanro responds:

thanx for the beautiful review, quite imaginative ... i could never imagine things on music, for me, music is just about sounds and feelings ... guess i need from time to time someone to put images on that
hope you'll like also the happy/jazzy stuff i have here

[Mortal Kombat (Metal-Tran]

I loved this, it had some great twists!

At 41, that was pure genius, breaking into that theme. Then it borke down into that metallic theme and kept up a high energy level with some great background variance until around 1:25, when it went into high pitched electronic stuff, and then back again shrotly after 1:40. The rest of the piece was a nice break from the convential MK remixes. at 2:25, I loved the heavy theme on the MK, along with the singular notes in the back around 2:45. Great ending, I kind of liked those three little things at the very end, remined me that it was some good guitar throughout it. I hope you don't think i'm too weird with the way I break down my music reviews ;) but I loved this piece, i'm def downloading it =).
__Crunchy

himenow responds:

It'd be great if everyone commented like you ;)
I wasn't too happy with the ending I did, but I'm glad someone liked it :D

[Evil-Dog - The Last Stand]

Quite consuming

Heh, I was first introduced to your work through SC guitar hero maniac deluxe 2, and this shows the same incredible level of talent. I love the guitar lines throughout, especially at the middle of the piece. I totally created my own little retarded zombie scenes in my head while listening to this ^_^. Thank you much for sharing this with us! (Btw, My favorite part was at about 1:55 where it calmed down and eventually broke down into just the fadding out guitar, just like the beginning! Very smart way to tie it all into a cocmplete piece)
__Crunchy.

[_-={Newgrounds Spectrum}=-_]

Wow, very original

This was crazy, how you were able to accurately convey so many different emotions. This was epic, and I can see why it has his excellent score. It is so obvious you put long amounts of time and planning into this, and i'm sure we all truly enjoyed this piece which included variety, skill, and a few surprises. =)
__Crunchy

[Midnight Cruise]

Has a life of its own

I loved how at he beginning, you let the beeping fade out, and then just as it was about to disappear, you started it again. The break-in at 0:35 was nice.

This piece has a jazzy, relaxed sorta feel and you keep enough variation throughout the lines to keep the lsitener interested. It soudns like you have at least three tracks going at any given time. At 2:00 you completely changed it around and the piano sounds became dominant, then shifted into the electronic bleeps. This worked nicely in my opinion because you then built off of that and set up the ending, which while a bit abrupt... I can't think of a better way to end the song than a fade-out, maybe just a longer one. Whatever, I loved the piece, very relaxing with a twist of something else added in, which gave the music some real character.

RAVEN responds:

Hey CrunchyOrphan, thanks a lot for the excellent review. I'm really glad you enjoyed it. I will post a bulletin when it is fully completed and uploaded to my myspace account. I have an interesting idea as to how it should end. Thanks again for the review. It was very informative. =)

[MS - Eccentricity]

Ah, I like your diverse styles.

I'm going through all your music, and I like how you can make your music so flexible. Somethign in this which I really like was some sort of oriental theme going on in the background which was just enough so that it appeared pas the awesome bass and drums you put in. At around 1:30, it reminded me a little of that game "lemmings" for some reason, which made me laugh. At 1:55, it was epic when it broke down and launched into the percussion. Reminded me of those japanese drum deals. It changed up a bit nicely though for the ending, which works with the heavy drums in the beginning.

[Mortal Symphony - Invocation]

Omg I love it so much.

from 30 secs to 50 you bring in all the synth and the vocal a bit and I got completely lost in it. I think we all hear a familiar thing in it because of all the synth crap we hear nowadays from music videos, movies, and clubs, but I love this sort of stuff and while it's similar to some things, it has it's own life and character and you molded as your own to make a throughly enjoyable creature of music. At 2:08, I loved that too The ending was great... it worked really well with the beginning, where it was all staccatto at first and my favorite part of the whole piece...hmm...it would have to be the things that sounded like vocals, I'm guessing it was a synth feature. Nice job, i'm totally putting it on my Ipod ^_^.

[(Tr)anyo]

hehe, reminds me of partyboy a little ^^

But it's really good. I always complain that artists don't put enough background emphasis, but you worked it in nicely, never having less than two things going on. You included an awesome violent bass beat with an appropriate amount of distortion and by doing all of this, you managed to keep a steady theme and mood. The breaks you included at 1:40 and 2:20 for example gave just the right amount of pause to launch back into the music. I particualrly likes the thing at 2:48 and 3:00 where you played around with the theme a little. At 3:25 and onwards untill 3:40 there was some odd distortion which kind of pulled me out of the piece, IMO a bit too odd of an ending, but it's the core of the piece that counts I guess.

[Defcon Zero - RdM]

Nice transitions!

You kept the smaller themes just long enough to register, but didn't milk them and kept trying to surprise the listener. That said, you need more of a background beat, especially starting at around 45 seconds untill 1:30...maybe in general, up to 2:00, but then you put in that awesome distorted theme, which you then added some sort of strings to, and then it was epic, especially with the laugh, and the little cool-down at around 1:50, with the break down at around 3:10. I really enjoyed listening to this piece and hearing all the different chapters of it. The change and 3:26 made me laugh for some reason, but it worked. When you brought the bass back and around 4:05 and included the higher pitched electronic and laugh and the surface track and the drums, it all started to pulling together. At 5:08, you put in the violent bass and the distortion at about 5:23, and that was a ending. I guess I more gave a summary of your piece, but I think I made a few suggestions ^_^. Deserving of a good score, for sure =).

[TSF [EM] - Ready For Action]

Hm...

I really like it, i do.... I would suggest adding a very rapid, high-pitched track onto it at 20 and then some drums and bass ten seconds later. Get all three going together, then break them off untill you have just the beginning theme again, then add an abrubt, echoing ending. Gosh, I hear it all it my head but it looks stupid in the review, oh well, I enjoyed it, can't wait to see you exapand upon it, I'll be looking for it!