Skip to main content

On Sale: GamesAssetsToolsTabletopComics
Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
(+1)

Intro - You have a good instinct for when to shift register. I like The key changes were very well chosen and placed I thought. I hope that cadence gets resolved somewhere down the line!

Forgotten seeds - Very grand crescendo throughout the track, especially with the shifting between tonic major and minor. Perhaps strings could have a bit more stage mic, if impossible, and the celli were a bit too far back in the mix for me.

The twisted man - I can see why Danny Elfman was brought up, those parallel minor chords are very evocative. The bouncy motif worked well in winds and strings but felt a bit off in horns, maybe it's a velocity or expression thing, or too much legato. Same with the low brass at the end.

The voyage - Great use of winds and harp for textural composing. Similar criticism of the horns here, but i think it might just be the limitation of the software. You have a great sense of when a phrase needs to be cut a bar short or be held longer for a bar or two, it makes the music very exciting to listen to.

Whispers - Great variation on the twisted man theme, couldn't ask for anything more.

Finale - Awesome conclusion. Reminded me of Reprise from spirited away, with the passing around of the motif, the minor section and then the build up to the key change passing the motif to low strings. The ending was a bit abrupt, felt like you could have milked it more, and ending on the subdominant left it feeling a bit inconclusive.

Fantastic submission, had a lot of fun listening!

Thank you for the review, liamt15 :) I sometimes plan the key changes ahead but in this case, while composing, the switch of the theme from Ab major to Bb major came quite naturally for me after the bridge. I know both the Intro & Main Menu and the Finale & Credits are inconclusive and I received the same critique at home for having done that, but this was a conscious choice, given what I wanted to achieve with the story. But I can agree that I could have developed the Finale a bit more, I just didn't have the time to do it. Just a quick side note: at both the beginning and end of The Twisted Man it is not a horn you hear, nor any brass instrument for that matter — it is a contrabassoon. It really took me a long time to decide on the twisted man's leitmotif instrument, but at the end I went with the contrabassoon as it is such a reverberating low-pitched instrument that it expresses something from deep inside the character that later explodes when I fully expose the theme. There is a glimpse of the intro theme just before the end, on the clarinet, and then the contrabassoon comes back to remind us the twisted part of the character is not fully gone.

I really appreciated your review, thanks again!

(+1)

I did think bassoon but it was so bassy! Fascinating