Phronemophobia's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Heart to Heart (2018)]

And so, Flops finally returned from his long, arduous journey, restoring peace across the land of Chester, and he brought with him all sorts of heroic tales to tell his child from now until... I don't know, like a week? Well, it won't matter, because they'll be such grand stories that everyone will want to hear them again and again and again... for, like, another week... maybe? Least importantly, Flops will finally be able to upload that Sega music tutorial that he promised us a year and a half ago. The End.

Thank you for playing Final Flopstasy.

(This is beautiful, Bertn. Thank you very much for putting a smile on the face of my tired, exhausted soul... and on my actual face, as well.)

Bertn1991 responds:

I'll never forget the tales of his most arduous journey to brave new lands... for one, perhaps two weeks in total.

Smiles on faces does put a smile on my face. Happy this was able to make both your soul and your face smile :)

Also, Final Flopstasy has been going downhill since X.

[Rocket Racer (2018)]

This kinda reminds me of the amazing Battle Theme 1 on the Chrono Trigger soundtrack, but it's also amazing in an entirely different way... in a Bertn, Brenty... Bunny kind of way. I don't know if I can imagine this as a racing tune, however. After all, I'm certainly in no rush to finish listening to it. Perhaps, Remile is right. Maybe this would benefit from being a tad longer. Being short certainly does nothing to diminish the quality of the piece, so here's 11 stars! NG only allows you to view the first five, but, I can assure you, the other six are right beside them.

Bertn1991 responds:

Eleven stars is quite the honor. Smiles for miles ^____^

Chrono Trigger had some very simple, but super effective regular battle music. I think I can hear similarities, maybe in their respective simplicity. There's only four staffs in this song, not counting the drums. Also, yes. I'm one letter shy of being Mr. Bunny.

THANK. YOU. FOR. LISTENING. BEEP [O_O]

[Undersea Observatory (2018)]

Makes me think of the Ocean Palace, except it isn't menacing.

If I'm ever asked to describe what it sounds like to perform oceanography, I now have a proper answer to give.

Thank you, Bertn.

Bertn1991 responds:

No, thank you. And if I ever become an oceanographer, I'm gonna have an MP3 player with 300 tracks. One of them will be this song and the other 299 will be the @JK-FlipFlop Sega Genesis remix. It's my fantasy and I can dream if I want to.

Undersea Palace from Chrono Trigger was the main inspiration :)

[Mega Funk Chip Arena]

As usual, another fantastic track by endK, except it doesn't seem to loop very well, and that's a peeve of mine on the audio portal. Poor loops irritate me, so I hope it'll flow better within the game.

endKmusic responds:

Thanks Phro!
Was actually a perfect loop, but loops dont loop very loopy here.
:<

[endK - Automaton Squad]

It's adventurous, fun, and the added sounds really do work with the looping animation. I can only hope the next time Butzbo plans for a new cartoon series, he'll ask you to help provide music.

I know next to nothing about the technical aspects of a song, but, for what it's worth, I think this sounds amazing. <3

endKmusic responds:

Yay! Glad it worked out.
Surely I'd be up for anything, but most of all I'm grateful for the inspiration that I get from those wacky characters, and that by itself is enough. :)
Thanks Phro! <3

[Rats Flats (2018)]

I love this so much. You don't realize how happy hearing this makes me. It's as if you created a new theme song for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, except that Carmen Sandiego is now a hat-wearing mallard who travels around the globe pilfering all varieties of bread.

Bertn1991 responds:

Whoa, those are some kind words. Thank you, sir. I'm happy to know that this quirky tune was the source of somebody's happiness. That does me a smile :^)

And, uh, I'm not one to preorder games, but I would totally preorder that game!

[Creo - Slow Down]

I don't particular care for slow music, though if it was 5 AM, and I was still in that brief daze shortly after waking up, hearing this would be the best way to start a new day.

As always, thank you, Creo.

CreoMusic responds:

Thank you right back, my friend.

I have to mention though, I've been enjoying slower music a bit more lately. There might be more of that. :)

[Victory! (2018)]

I kinda have to disagree with -cd-.

It's a great tune, but this is more comparable to the fanfare of grabbing a star or shine at the end of a Super Mario stage. You get the item, then you're immediate tossed out of the painting. That's why it's appropriate to have a short victory tune for that. If this is for an RPG, however, it would need a joyful looping tune afterwards for the player to hear while they are being rewarded with experience, ability points, money, items, and level up stats. Otherwise, it would be silent while all of that was happening. Then again, maybe you have a separate song for that and, perhaps, an even better version of it that would play after defeating major bosses.

Bertn1991 responds:

You know, that's a good idea. I should make a new version of this that does have that joyful loop. Silence is scary. I don't want to be scared! On my to-do list it goes. Thank you once again, sir :D

[endK - Neon Graveyard]

Congratulations on 11th place. I'm curious to hear how amazing the other ten ahead of you must be to overcome this amazing, Shovel Knight-quality track.

endKmusic responds:

Thanks Phro.
You get it! ^_-
Been listening to a lot of Jake Kaufman's Shovel Knight tracks lately.
That's how this came out. Although it's far from it [composition-wise], he's been a great inspiration.

[Biffy's Theme (2018)]

I could imagine this as castle town music, but my mind keeps wanting to label it as an overworld theme. It's got an adventurous feel to it, which is probably due to the sounds of marching drums encouraging the heroes (and the player controlling them) to continue forward, even though "forward" will typically amount to three steps before a random battle is triggered. It makes me want to explore the world, rather than dart around cobblestone roads looking for places to rest and restock.

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Bertn1991 responds:

I was really sleepy when I made that tag. It's funny how you can Google that now and my song comes up.

I'm sure I had castle towns in mind when making this one, and I definitely had overworld on the brain. I hate that Final Fantasy games have really good world map music because I never get to hear it all the way through unless I stop moving.

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