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Great production and composition, this is the most polished soundtrack I've heard this jam so far. I like the idea to have each character to have a different gameplay loop, it lets their personalities shine through and it gives the player a window into their world and what strength made them special.  I don't have anything to complain about on the technical side, everything is really well crafted. 

I'll nitpick a bit on some of the musical choices and how it may relate to gameplay to try and give you some useful feedback, but these nitpicks are a little subjective and can easily be explained away by picturing the gameplay  differently.

- nitpick start -

In the second track, with the exception of the 2:55 to 4:34 section (which captures the atmosphere of your world very well), I get the feeling that Emberhen often has limited time and is running, which doesn't really match the idea of exploration / relationship building set inside the city. Even if the Origin City is located next to a volcano, it sounds like the volcano is either about to erupt and kill everyone, or that all the roads and pathways are not really fit for regular people where there is a constant threat of being consumed by lava. The section at 4:34-4:47 is a little too intense and could be more at home with the combat scenario in the third track.

- nitpick end -

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Thank you so much for listening and for leaving such a thoughtful comment! I love hearing ideas of how others hear my music and ideas for how to improve. I think that you are totally right that the energy does get a little too high for the more casual gameplay I was envisioning. I think my intention was to capture the populated city-like bustling that you might expect from a capital city and the melody with a more soaring quality would balance out the calm and collected nature of Emberhen. It's good to hear where that did and did not work. The 4:34 section was actually written first to try and capture the intensity of the volcano and how its energy is harnessed for the city. I almost took it out but thought maybe it could offer more variation into the different components I imagined for the city, like a big factory-works center. I do agree that the intensity is more in-line with combat than exploration probably. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts!