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A jam submission

A Stark BattleView project page

Submission for the Music Style Imitation Jam (Pokemon)
Submitted by nuuu (@nvvvclear) — 4 days, 11 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Mixing Quality#73.7693.769
Composition#173.6923.692
Overall#173.6923.692
Enjoyment#183.6153.615
Imitation of Style#203.6923.692

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
This is meant to imitate a battle theme from one of the 16bit era games although i took inspiration from the 8bit chiptune ones aswell. I inlcuded the repeating "do do da" motif found in those songs, a heavy bassline, and having the song fade out rather than it having an outro (which is something I noticed when listening to songs from Ruby & Sapphire).

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https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1535065

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Comments

Submitted

Nice production quality! Every instrument feels full and has good space. I like the chaos of this piece haha. My one input would that even though it is battle music, I think more dynamic variation would be great. Even just little crescendos in the percussion going into a new section. Cool piece!

Submitted

Good use of percussion and syncopation to keep up the energy in this battle theme! The fluctuation in tempo is an interesting way to introduce variety, although I personally think it gets a bit too slow occasionally. I would also bring out the lower melody in the middle section as the higher notes crowd it out.

Submitted

Quite nice. It has a great mixing and mastering quality and it is very complex and sort of chaotic like you’d expect a battle to be. The only thing I have to say is I can’t find a melody really with all of the chaos. Maybe it isn’t supposed to have a melody but I feel like without a melody it might seem like just noise to some people. The time fluctuations were a nice touch though. Great job!

Submitted

Far more sci-fi than I would have anticipated but I haven't played every single Pokemon game, so that could be spot on for all I know! It's very energetic and colourful and certainly puts me in mind of a boss battle. There are a few elements here that would have been great to develop as separate pieces, or perhaps extended into boss battle phases. As it is, it may contain a little too much in the short play time. Great work regardless. A suggestion to make a piece longer isn't bad, as criticisms go!

Submitted

Wow your cover art is perfect for this soundtrack. I really liked the panning in the high arpeggios going ear to ear, and the occasional chromatic descent in the bass. Super fun use of rhythm as well, there were strong chaos vibes! I might have liked a tad more percussion but that is a matter of taste. I liked your choice to bring everything down to two voices (a violin and mallet of some type playing in unison) before reintroducing some more chaos! Well done!

Developer

I have listened to your feedback and updated this, I have lengthened the song, fixed some wrong notes, removed the earthbound guitar (it now has the megadrive soundfont), and improved the master.

The new version has great improvements! Definitely a more unified sound. Also love the key changes. Nice stuff!

Submitted

I like this a lot! I like the tempo changes, and I think it adds to the frantic nature you're conveying Part of me wishes the individual sections were developed out more. There's a lot of cool material here, and I think it would be interesting if you took this, and made 2-3 battle themes out of them, and not just one. Great work!

(+1)

Kind of a melting pot of different generations, nice! It has nice energy, although I don't think the energy really hits until 18 seconds in (excluding the opening 2 second riff). My favorite section is at 00:58, it has a cool sense of peril with the emerald strings and the timpani. I kind of wish the whole track used pokémon sounds, when I'm listening to the overdriven guitar lead it just kinda distracts me and makes me think of earthbound or undertale instead. Might be an unpopular opinion but nonetheless it was still implemented well into the track. The tempo changes were cool too, very gen 5. With minor tweaks this would make a really cool battle track in a new pokémon game (maybe wind and waves who knows).

Submitted

I had no clue the overdriven guitar was used in the Pokemon franchise, hell yeah! I really dig this, but maybe repeat some of the leads twice, the switch-ups feel like they happen too quickly. The lead could get some more attention as well, feels a little tad too simple. Everything else is great (Master, panning, etc.), nice work!