Vive la France! I liked the mix of playfulness and sadness in your soundtrack!

The Lovers is my favorite (this track is named so in French, heh)

A Promise Made Until the End kicks off with some nice orchestration and gorgeous lead tones. Strings here are well done and add some needed motion to the track to keep it from feeling too static. Nice introduction to the soundtrack as a whole.

Castle Town features some drastic panning - I dig the feel of it, but I think it could be reeled back a little to really sell it all the more. Instead of hard panned elements, I think settling more into the 30-80% range of panning might have done more to cohesively glue all the elements together into the one track. Structurally the song is good; nice vibes, great use of orchestral percussion and articulation.

Green Pastures has more of the same orchestration that I'd expect. I won't comment on the panning here again but I think that this track suffers more than it should for it as a lot of emphasis is put on the left channel and very little on the right. Movement wise, this has a nice progression that continues to iterate on itself as it goes on.

The Lovers has some really nice woodwinds in it. The middle section coming together with supporting strings to help harmonize things is nicely done, and I do like the variation of articulation here to spice up the sound palate somewhat and provide some more transient heavy elements to the track.

All in all, solid work. This was fun to listen to and all feels like it belongs in the same soundtrack as a whole. Good job, and best of luck.

Have to agree with others that the panning is a bit too drastic for some instruments, mostly with the horns and cello panned almost hard to the sides with nothing except the timpani in the middle now and then makes the track feel a bit hollow.

I think if you like the wide panning, you could try to have some instruments playing stuff in the center parts of the stereo field/orchestra too, so it doesn't start to feel too hollow.

But still, great work!

I agree with others about the panning, Castle town and Green Pasture were a little to "wide" for lack of a better term. The instruments you chose were really nice and worked well together, I feel they're similar to Croc in sound, so definitely fit the PS1 vibe you were aiming for!

These are decent little tracks! gives off the type of game you were going for quite well!

The panning in the tracks (especially track 3) really needed to be a little more centered.

i love the grandeur orchestral nature of your soundtrack — you've chosen particular developments in each instrument's part for each track that helps set each one apart. nicely done!

i'd love to know more about your creative process in what you envisioned for each track — the tracks seem work well sitting in the background as one plays the game, so i'm curious how you'd approach making something of a cinematic nature with more variation in energy? ^-^

I think you have some interesting ideas in this submission!

I would probably agree that the panning could be pushed back towards the center a little bit, but I would also like to hear a little variation in the way some of the melodies are phrased/articulated. For me this mostly applied to the horns, but overall I think it would add some nice expression from the instruments.

I'd be curious to hear what these would've sounded like if this jam had a little longer run time and you had a chance to further develop these pieces because some of those ideas were quite nice. Hopefully you give it a shot sometime!

Keep up the good work :)

Love the sounds, very retro! 

Need to work on adding more color and textures to the arrangement, it will help create more of those moods you were looking for on those tracks!

I think the panning on the second track was too drastic. It tired out my right ear having the constant strings on it.

Actually, I think the panning was just a little too much overall for the whole submission. It caused the tracks to feel empty because there wasn't much occupying the center space.