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Hey thanks a lot for your comment, glad that you liked it again !

It was a pleasure listening to yours, and I will gladly listen to your next submission also !

Excellent concept for your submission, very impressed by it and the execution (it was like the duets tracks from my submission but taken to another level wow) !

The tracks are all very nice, the music battle aspect was very well executed (reminded me of The Devil Went Down To Georgia or Guitar Hero boss tracks in general) : the parts to play are nicely composed and memorable enough to not be a bunch of notes put there to be difficult, so great job on that. The rise in intensity/difficulty was quite well handled, and there was a lot of very enjoyable variety among the different tracks.

I leave this comment as is but I will try later to play it on guitar (very fortunate that you put the tab notation on here, my non-sightreading brain would have been very lost otherwise), I will tell you how this goes in another comment.

Excellent work and can't wait to try it out, great job !

Thanks for the thorough comment, glad that you liked it !

For Interception's guitar/lute part I didn't have a specific context bound to it (outside of it sounding cool which is why it was here in the first place). If I extended the soundtrack to a wider storytelling I guess I could give it a deeper link to the Empire (there would be a lot of things needed to characterize them, and this would be a nice starting point).

And concerning World From Above it suffered a bit from being the last track composed for the album, so the mixing and arrangements could have benefited from several additional touches like you said.

Thanks a lot for listening !

Hi thanks a lot for your comment !

It is indeed a saxophone used on most tracks (from a DecentSamples VST which sounded very nicely, at least for a free VST), I wanted to use it as a warmer texture for the tracks (I listened to the soundtrack from The Odyssey which had nice wind/brass instruments too so I wanted to bring a bit of it into my soundtrack).

And yeah I also wanted the duets to have a different vibe (for the universe they come from but also to bring variations to the pacing of the album), glad that it came accross.

Thanks a lot for listening !

Very nice soundtrack, experienced with the dynamic visuals of the video (very well done by the way) and your explanations of the story it deepens the engagement and appreciation of your work !

The instrumentation was pretty well thought out and chosen for what you had in mind (the tracks sonically reminded me a bit of tracks from Monkey Island so it isn't that far off). Concerning the instruments association to the characters in the dedicated tracks, maybe I would have liked The Bells Of Battle and As A Bell Tolls to have their main instrument be more central (the vocals and bells do appear but maybe not as much as expected for being themes of characters, that's just nitpicking though).

I do feel that the tracks that shine the most (and also my favourites) were A World Of Hold & The Citadel Beckons, where the instruments representing the characters can each take the spotlight when needed to serve the storyline, I think those were the most well done !

Overall congrats for your very impressive work, thanks for sharing !

Very nice submission (short and very sweet) well done !

The instrumentation/arrangements are very nice and it has a great vibe throughout (especially the piano, it is played very soulfully and brings a lot in the appreciation of your soundtrack). 

Ground Level was a very pretty piece, and I really liked Forgotten most with its rise in intensity, great work !

Hi thank you very much, glad that you enjoyed it ! 

I did have a bit more time to do it all this time (and also the opportunity to take sufficient breaks between the work sessions to listen to my work with fresh ears), and for the drawings/project page I worked on them the last two days (since I had a pretty definite idea of where I was heading so I didn't lose too much time brainstorming).

Thanks for listening !

Thank you very much, glad that you appreciated the whole content !

I see your point about tempo variations, I did put different tempos for the different tracks but maybe I could have accentuated this trait more by making the différences a bit more noticeabke (and maybe do tempo changes for different sections within the tracks in the future because I'd like to explore this kind of writing also). 

For the duet tracks I deliberately put a slower tempo for them to make them more didactic and easier to follow (since it would require the player to play the parts after hearing them like in the Spirit Tracks duets, so it would be more manageable if it isn't too hectic).

Thanks a lot for listening !

Thanks a lot, very glad that you appreciated the music and the story especially !

When thinking about the theming of my story (with the theme of the jam) I globally had in mind the beginning and the ending of the soundtrack, with the duets being a nice way to mark the protagonist's progression (will the Ancient Melody be completed ? That's a mystery, but there is a choice that could be made).

That's all, thank you very much for your comment and for listening !

Thanks a lot for your comment, glad that you enjoyed it !

I indeed wanted to keep this darker and haunting vibe throughout (the Unveiling The Past being the first track composed for it, it quite set the tone for the rest) with some variations in intensity for the different tracks like you noticed (to fit with the general story that I had in mind).
I didn't apply this for the drawings on the project's page though (mainly because I wanted to put some colours in my drawings for once, but also to provide a nice counterpoint to the music's general vibe, and to not make the twist of the story too obvious in tone).

And pretty true for the EQ part, the Ancient Melody tracks for example could have benifitted from a bit more attention on this end (for the mixing I applied the bx_masterdesk plugin which is really nice to give the mix more clarity/punch, but a few tweaks here and there would be welcome).

Anyway thanks a lot for listening and for your feedback, it is greatly appreciated !

Excellent soundtrack and exquisite instrumentation, it was short but very effective !

The instrumentation chosen is very powerful, the production value on mixing is top-notch and the arrangements are quite dynamic (it manages to stay as intense during the whole runtime), I really enjoyed my time with it.

Beginning of an adventure has a nice buildup to it, and Fight together really shines with its energy and instrumentation (the violin are great and the vocals bring a nice touch.

Excellent work, congrats (also totally unrelated, the cover art of your album made me think of an extended music on Youtube called Panzer Dragoon Zwei - The Unexpected Enemy HOUR Extended =D, when I saw your cover I knew that I saw something similar somewhere else) !

Excellent soundtrack, lots of creativity for the tracks that felt really dynamic & pleasant to listen to !

The tracks all had a lot of energy and interesting moment, and with all their variations they managed to keep being very engaging to listen to without getting stale (which is quite impressive for the amount of music you've composed).

There was no dull moment in the total runtime, although if I had to pick favourites it would be beneath the canopy (great vibe/progression of the intensity, and thats represent well the universe of your game), deep dark (liked the darker vibe and the rhythm of it), zugunruhe (great instrumentation and arrangements, reminds me of compositions by Tim Follin or Alberto Gonzalez on chiptune games).

Excellent stuff (like always I must say), congrats for your work !

Very beautiful piece, it was a very pleasant listening experience !

The instrumentation, although quite simple, is pretty well chosen and fits the synth vocals nicely, it carries the emotions  of your game's idea greatly.

Great work (and nice choice for the thumbnail also, Mucha is one of my favourites artists and it fits pretty accurately with your piece) !

Thanks a lot glad that you liked it !

For the percussions I mostly took drum samples pack from a Humble Bundle pack I bought a long time ago (that I rearranged for the needs of the track), glad that it came out well on these two tracks.

I didn't use a lot of real instruments for this jam (compared to the previous ones where I used them more and more) but I still wanted to have the occasion to use one of my guitars and Interception was the perfect place to do so (the guitar playing is quite inspired by Fates Warning's Monument acoustic guitar part).

Thanks a lot for listening !

Hi thanks a lot for your comment, glad that you liked it !

Amazing soundtrack, what an experience !

The instrumentation and arrangements are top-notch, and the video on Youtube with the tracks all flowing into each other is exquisite and very pleasant to listen to.

The different tracks were very very solid throughout.

If I had to pick favourites it would be Catastrophe leading into Circumstellar (love both tracks and the transition between them that gains a lot of energy when arriving to the second track), Contamination (great eery vibe) and Charlotte (very energic and carries a lot of emotions when arriving near the end of the album).

Excellent work, congrats !

Nice soundtrack, great job !

I really liked the celtic vibe you were going for and the instrumentation was pretty well chosen for it, I really liked Unanswered and Feydance among the selection.

Maybe I would have liked a bit more variety (different instrumentation/rythm/vibes) between the tracks to better differenciate them and to have them be more evocative on a storytelling matter, but it was a very nice listen either way so great job !

Incredible instrumentation, your use of Woodwinds for this soundtrack really makes it shine and gives it a lot of life and energy that is very much appreciated !

I really liked the variety of vibes between the tracks and the energy each of them have, it was really pleasant to listen to and the mixing/quality of the recording elevates the experience quite a bit (I only wish that it would have been longer, but it speaks more about the quality of the listening experience).

Excellent work, congrats !

Very nice soundtrack, very much liked the vibe it was going for !

I can see it easily coming from an early PS2 game where devs weren't exactly sure if they wanted to use costly CD-like music and higher quality samples played and arranged by the console, so they settled for a mixture a both (along with the skybox in your nicely made video that has some visible artifacts for the looping, not sure if this one is intentional though but it has its charm).

Concerning the tracks themselves they were very well arranged and had some nice variety, I very much enjoyed the calming vibe and progression of The Three Sages, and Bacchus The Augur had a great energy with the percussions, nails the intense vibe pretty well.

Overall great soundtrack I enjoyed my time with it, great job !

Great soundtrack (and amazing production too, I'm glad that I listened to it with my headset to appreciate the subtleties of the mixing in stereo) !

I see where you coming from when you said that our stories were very similar (very different settings though, it was nice to see how you did the worldbuilding on your end to come to the final twist of it).

Concerning the tracks themselves they all had very nice instrumentation and arrangements with mixing that made them shine as much as possible.
I think my favourites were The Maintenance System (great buildup between the different parts, with its calm mood and more ectic parts I could picture what kind of game it would be and how dynamic the rhythm of the gameplay would be) and Pat's Song (great melancholic track to conclude the OST, reminded me a but of Shinobi III's Credits theme).

Overall excellent soundtrack, congrats for your great work !

Nice job on your compositions, liked them very much !

I think I liked Town Of Alban most, the variations in it flow pretty nicely I feel, and I feel that you did well with the theming (musically and storywise) that you chose .
I'm not sure about the limitations of the software that you are using but maybe I would have liked a bit more variations in the articulation of the notes played to have a bit more variety and more life, with it I think that the depth of the arrangements would be more noticeable.

Great job overall, congrats for your work !

Thanks a lot for listening, glad that you liked it !

Track 6 Unveiling The Past was actually the first track I wrote for the album (I had the general story written & divided into 6 different tracks, and this is the one that I started the writing with and that set the general tone for the album). I started with the bells to set up the ominous tone (inspired by the Closing track from Drakengard with a similar vibe) for this part of the story, and then the rest of the instrumentation came naturally with it.

Thanks a lot for your comment !

Thank you very much for your comment, glad that you liked my project and the narration I've made !

I indeed wanted to keep the general atmosphere pretty dreary and somber (not sure if I used major scales at all during the project but probably not) to paint an accurate image of the world this soundtrack belongs to, so I'm glad that it came through properly !

Pretty true indeed, when doing my researches I did find some VSTs by OrchestralTools (Babel and Eternal Vocals mostly) that seemed pretty alright for the price invested, also considering that they make very nice free orchestral VSTs : I'm just not sure if they are flexible enough for different musical styles (the demos sure do sound pretty nice, but what are they like in my DAW ? That's a mystery).

Also yeah collaboration with other talented people would surely be the best way to go for higher pitched vocals (I did do the other vocals on the first track but I do have my limitations), maybe I should check this at some point.

Excellent soundtrack (and illustrations on the project page too) I liked it a lot !

I really appreciated mostly the effort on characterization on the characters with the appropriate instruments and vibe given to them (like in Peter And The Wolf, the instruments are so accurate that you can easily picture what kind of characters the tracks are associated with). It gave them a lot more depth and it made your characters come to life thanks to it.

Concerning the tracks themselves they were very solid, I think liked most the Songkeepers theme (it introduces pretty well the kind of universe your characters are evolving in), Valor's theme (great vibe) and Sir Billsworth the IV's theme (great goofy energy for a great character also).

Overall very solid work (as a soundtrack and as a whole with the presentation ), excellent job !

Thank you very much for listening and for the points of amelioration, really helps a lot !

You are right about the panning issues, at the end of the project I mostly listened to my tracks through my phone and speakers (instead of my headset) to check the mixing on different devices, but I could have checked again on headset to notice the panning inbalances.

And for the voice on the second duet track I only had either long natural vocal samples (that work okay for textures on other tracks) or this shorter one that feels a bit unnatural, maybe I should invest in a paid vocals VST to get something a bit more dynamic and natural (maybe you have some in mind that I would be very happy to check).

Anyway thanks for the constructive comment and for listening !

Thank you very much for your comment, glad that you liked it (and for taking the time to check the project's page too) !

For the Ancient Melody tracks I was mostly inspired by the Spirit Tracks duets with the back and forth with the player and the character teaching the song (I initially wanted to have the violin parts played sloppily like the character learning the songs, but I also wanted the tracks to not sound horrendous so there was a choice to be made).

Anyway thanks a lot for listening !

Very nice OST, I quite liked the range of emotions it had (between very playful and very emotional), it came accross very well with your choice of instrumentation !

The Quiet Country was really effective for the emotions you wanted to convey (I think it was my favourite of the very solid selection), good job overall for your soundtrack !

Nice submission, the abundance of wind instruments fit quite nicely with your floaty theming and it was very enjoyable to listen to, great job and thanks for sharing !

Very unique interpretation of the theme and very unique soundtrack as a whole, great job for the creativity !

There is a wide array of different sounds that you managed to create with such a specific amount of samples type so congrats for sticking to it and making it sound varies across the different tracks.

Speaking of the tracks, I think my favourite was Clear Memory, I really enjoyed the calm and soothing vibe of it (which I'm wondering how you create these sounds with the printers sounds that are usually harsher like in the previous tracks) so nice work !

Great work, enjoyed it a lot !

There was a lot of variety in your soundtrack (ranging from calm and somber to tense and dynamic) with great instrumentation to back it up, which was very nice to listen to

Among the different tracks (which were all very solid) I really liked Intro & Main Menu (the melancholic vibe is very well done) and The Twisted Man (very dynamic and intense instrumentation) most, good job for it !

Excellent soundtrack, very impressive !
The instrumentation is very well done/well mixed and the arrangements are very dynamic, it has a lot of enjoyable variety throughout the different tracks.
All tracks were very good, although I must say that my favourite was Allagad, the Long-Forgotten Fortress : the buildup/transitions between the different parts is very nice and the different parts were also very strong on their own and as a whole.
Congrats for your work !

Hey thanks a lot for the nice comment, very glad that you enjoyed it !

For the instrumentation I took a bit of inspiration from the Odyssey's soundtrack mostly on vocals and wind instruments side (made me think of it with the harpies looking like the sirens), so glad that you appreciated this part !

Thanks a lot for listening and for your thorough review, nice that you enjoyed it !

I'm glad that my intentions of mixing fun and horror came through for tracks that you could enjoy (especially since based on the influences I took from the different images I strayed in pretty different directions, so thankfully there's a quite a bunch that hit the mark for you).

Anyway thanks for taking the time to listen to it and for your comment, it is  appreciated !

Very nice album I liked it a lot !

The instrumentation was nicely done and I really liked how you implemented multiple ideas into your tracks that worked very well (I really liked the Main Menu and Trials theme among all of the tracks although I enjoyed listening to every track), I think overall the composition was really top-notch so congrats for this.
I've just noticed also that you are using Studio Pro (haven't made the switch from Studio One 6 yet), is it worth to make the switch or not really ?

Anyway great soundtrack congrats !

Great soundtrack I really enjoyed it listening (with the Google Doc on the side to follow the narration).

It had overall a great flow and variety, the whole soundtrack went by pretty quickly (which is pretty impressive for a soundtrack as long !).
The instrumentation although quite simple (due to the limitations of the software I presume) was very well done and managed to not get repetitive or redunding with the arrangements you've made. 
About the tracks themselves I liked very much the more fast-paced tracks (annoying bushfire, tickets please, brainshot, acquainted with the stars...) which have a great energy and rise in intensity, mixed with the more ambiant tracks(unfamiliar faces, abyss, get me out) that have a great somber vibe that fit the theme quite well. 

I also liked very much the sequencing of the album with how you chose to dispatch the images along with the story, I found it very interesting to follow (especially when I had strictly in mind the original images sequencing in mind) and it allowed to make an album with frequent changes of pace that kept it very engaging throughout !

Very nice job for your album and for being able to complete it, congrats !

Thanks a lot for your comment !

When I think of what summer inspires me on a musical standpoint, surfrock pretty much comes to mind in priority so I'm glad that it came through in the final product.
And thanks for the recommendation, I didn't know about the game before but I've started listening to its soundtrack and it's pretty nice also (has some pretty similar vibes to what I had in mind) ! 

Thanks a lot for listening, glad that you enjoyed it (and especially the second track too) !

Very soothing and chilling soundtrack, really unique it was really well done !

I quite liked the assortment of instruments you've used on the various tracks, it all sounded really good and felt quite cohesive throughout (a lot of them sounded like LABS instruments, maybe they were, and it always feels great to the ear).
The vibes of the tracklist felt very ethereal and it was quite a journey to listen to, 

In the selection, although all tracks were pretty solid, my favourites must have been Ceaseless Searing (has a very nice progression and chilling atmosphere), Cyclical Severance (felt very emotional with the melodies gated in reverb, and the percussions bring a lot to its emotive power), and Transcendence From Chains (is a great conclusion to the album with its triumphant-like arrangements).

Overall awesome job and awesome soundtrack, congrats !