TheWisestMagi's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[NH22 - Sun & Moon]

AWESOME track..but could've been more

Allow me to explain what I mean by this..

That primary guitar rift for the "sun" theme was slightly over used later in the song, and could've been used with different twists to knock the track from awesome to legendary in my opinion. I know you did have a diversion to that rift later in the song, but it was a HUGE diversion, there should have also been a crazy variation on the orignal rift that was still short and sweet, providing us with so much energy..Although don't get me wrong the rift you ended the song with rocked as well,being that it was kind of a combo between the "sun" and "moon" themes.. the other one should've been in the middle of the original sun rift and the finally in my opinion.

Also, at some points of the song, if you have the song above really quite, sounds kinda fuzzy, as you can hear static in the background.

I know this all sounds like complaints but I'm being so knitpicky because you are a great author, and great authors are rated on higher levels by me...

Anyway, for the sond you actually have hear, I personally loved the sun theme more, although the moon broke away from repetitiveness and was nice aswell...the sun theme blew me away and made me just want to get up and run..Reminded me of some adventure you would see characters go on on a TV show, where they are all really close no matter what happens..

Thanks for reading! 5/5 (But not QUITE legendary status ;)

~TheWisestMagi~

[Dream Stalker]

You scared me at first..

You scared me at first because at the start I was like "Ohh nooo" because I thought it was just going to be a bunch of sounds for FL slapped together the entire song. Because the VERY beginning sounded like something that I slapped together in like 10 minutes while trying to figure out FL studio..thank god you changed that shortly = P.

The song really picks up after that, And my favorite part definately has to be the part with the deep synth and higher synth playing together with the delayed cymbal crashes over it.

I also really enjoyed the part where just the low synth is playing such a peaceful melody, almost sounding like it's rolling along, when that almost piano-like synth (but not e-piano..) starts playing over it.

Really nice put together, I give it a 4/5 and a 8.5/10. I'm not going to vote quite yet until some other people see it first though ;) (while it's up top).

Sincerely,
~TheWisestMagi~

[ParagonX9 - Chaoz Fantasy]

Well done!

This is a very nice tune.
It remains quick and driving while still retaining a beautiful tune, it gives peace of mind, yet make you want to dance. I love it.
The ongoing ostinato found from the begining of the song to the end was very well filtered and balanced, making it interesting throughout even though it never really changed.

I also enjoy the long string-synth sound which you use, it sounded not unlike the one in rainbow destructor.

I was however mostly taken by the electric piano with it's really moving melody in front of the beautiful ostinato.

Being a drummer, I enjoyed the company of the drums in the song, as well as those nice cymbal crashes adding such power and drive to the song.

This song is beautiful, and makes one just want to drift away in some crazy world. I could definately see it in some Final Fantasy type games.

Thanks for submitting, although I wished you replyed every now and then.

Best of Wishes,
~TheWisestMagi~

[Helix - City of Industry]

Refreshing!

YES! More Helix-type Industrial! I've been needing some new stuff = P. Got most of your stuff on my i-pod, but most of it was getting old after you know 50 listens..(Except Archetype).

Anyway, for this song. I really like how you brought in the beginning of the song..I always have trouble with beginnings..Anyway, I really like the way you distorted and reverb all of your sounds, Although at some points i think the fuzzy, distorted sound was a little overwhelming...Also..the vocals you get are always SO amazing..It's rediculous how you incorporate real quotes into your songs.
Woah song just restarted, so again I would like so way how much the first instrumental part ROCKS. Keep up this rediculously awesome style of industrial...it's amazing man, the way you reverb everything is just so far above my head..You may be the most SKILLED artist on Newgrounds..

Any 5/5, 10/10..Awesome man, keep up the work.

P.S. Speaking of work, you catching any breaks lately on your long hours? Or is this song just the accumulation of a little bit of freetime every week. If not..I'm sure you'll catch a break SOMETIME...
Happy Trails,
~TheWisestMagi~

Helix6 responds:

Thank you. I am still working a lot. I work about 60 hours weekly, plus have 2 cars, a home, friends, family, and a girlfriend to maintain. I also have to get in some partying too. So music squeezes in when I have a chance. I know! I need to make more time.

[_-={Cowering Savagery}=-_]

Awesome, first download..and review?

Dam you for being so much better then me ; ).
This once again..Is BEAUTIFUL!!

The song Phisically: The only complaint (however miniscule) was I thought the VERY first note on the guitar was a bit harsh sounding..Maybe it's just me, and I have no idea why I picked that up, but it seems like it to me... Other then that, beautiful background strings and choir..I also like that bass (or whatever it is) playing a counterpoint background almost to the melody.. Also, I have grown to love the bells ^^, so I am pleased to hear them in this song.

The Song Emotionally, Visually, and Story-wise:
This song gives me a slightly similar feel as Lacrioso's Breeze.. As we begin I see a young lad just standing humbly..yet somehow valiantly..He approaches people in his quite little town just to see what he could do to help, and rarely being turned down, he keep busy..However, when not busy, we see him atop a great hill, near a great tree, reading books about great heros, adventures, and villains..And upon finishing each one he is inspired to grow up to be a hero.. Now as the song progresses we see him standing on that same great hill, near that same great tree, but this time with an overpowering valiant look about him, a sword in the ground next to him, leaning on a tree. And as his hair flows in the wind, we see him still smiling out over the town, and into the blue cloudy skies, still looking to help. However, he is now older, has a sterner look, and a few emotional scars about him...

I really don't feel anything else, and the song just leaves me instantly there..but I guesss thats why it's a two part song huh? 5/5 10/10, and as always, Beautiful, eternal, and touching.

MaestroRage responds:

This story for some reason, induced a lot of imagery on my half. I literally sat here for an hour Magi, and lived the life of this boy. I saw his hill, the great tree he'd sit under and read of his favorite heroes.

The bakery, the smith, the stables. All the places he'd lend his hand to. The town appreciated him, and he them. Old lovers, and broken sweethearts just one of few emotional scars he carried with him.

So damn interesting. I will remember this world, and think on it for the second half.

Thank you Magi for the review, I am glad you liked it!

[_-={Lacrioso's Breeze}=-_]

Good God..Here we go again...

This song is just so beautiful...I can definately hear more of the contemporary classical in this song, sounds more like something I would hear professionally more so then the majority of your work (most of the rest is really almost too progressive from what I hear in band and what not..if you know what I mean).

The Phisical nature of the song: I find the song quite flawlessly executed, it never gets repetetive, and nothing cuts in too harsh at any points of the song, providing a very smooth beautiful feel to it. Strings, choirs, and the piano(s) were..WOW(as an adjective).

The Image, Emotion, and Story: Wow, some parts of this song make me want to shed a tear although I am quite happy? Maybe a tear of peaceful..timeless joy? Anyway, I get an unusual image from this one. My first thought was as follows..:
We are flying over a beautiful landscape as the music starts..Gracefully soaring over the earth,until finallly we slowly approach a single location..And as we spiral in to it we see children running all over a beautiful little plain, just running back and forth, what they are playing or doing is unknown, but they seem lost in time, for it does not matter to them. (The piano starts)(We are now looking out of the eyes of one of them). Now they all come together into a group as the skies grow darker, and they approach eachother with a muted laughing, almost like we are watching through a giant window..We now see them talking, joking, laughing,(first chior) then finally sitting down. Now they lay down as the skies grow black. (full orchestra kicks in)(SPLIT ENDINGS)
Ending one:Now the sky begins filling with little shimmering lights..stars, and as a comet soars by, our window begins to get up, and as he looks around, he notices only barren, flaming land around him, his friends are but crying souls next to him now, and all of the sudden we get an instant sinking feeling..we awake..

(Ending one)This was the dream of the tainted leader.

Ending two: Now, as a shooting star soars across the skies, our window looks to his left, there lie his friends, but now are much older, and as they get up, they still smile..But not that same carefree smile..a smile that is there JUST because they know that they will always be there for eachother..JUST because they are friends..JUST because they are alive, and they know that they will always, be friends forever..

Ending two: A prolouge to the entire story? Or just a beautiful scene.

Man Maestro, you will never cease to astonish me..What I was really describing in the story was something I seriously think would be in a movie, I mean, the intro to a movie would just be amazing, the entire spiral effect, then looking back up to see a completely new reality..now THAT would start a movie so well...
5/5 10/10, Kudos to you too Lacrioso, I know you had ALOT to do with this song too ; )..Didn't forget..

MaestroRage responds:

I admired this imagery Magi. Especially the second ending. It struck a deep chord with me. Maybe because I subconsciously thought that these friends were the friends of the fallen leader in our story. How many nights I wished that something like that would happen...

don't get me wrong though. The ending for that story was absolutely enticing. I would not have looked for a better way to end it, just possibilities.

I am sure Lacrioso appreciated the story as well, if it were not for his intro and brilliant piano opening, this piece would not have been possible.

Thank you for the review Magi, a truly well written one, i'm glad you liked it ^^.

[R.E.M. III]

R.E.M = Rediculously Extreme Music

Although, this song may have been a trance to you and what it "reminded" you of when you were making it..I really thing it should be in DnB section because of the driving drums through all of the song (except the guitar part they werent as heavy "feeling").
And R.E.M. as in Rapid Eye Movement?
This is definately something I see in the ending credits of a great game..
Keep up the great work, 5/5..(hopefully, if you don't respond to these you at least read them..).
~TheWisestMagi~

[Twilight Techno]

Dude, I don't think everyone see's all of this..

While everyone listens to this song, they are like, WOW this r'ing rocks, and while they are right..do they see why?
I think this could be the VERY first time I've ever seen a form of rounds used in techno..Sheerly amazing man..
I don't know how you got this idea, but it is AMAZING...Some of the best I've heard..(Dare I say it).. You are the new paragon of the techno genre man..

5/5 This rocked hardcore..
P.S. What programs do you use? (If you don't mind telling).

[_-={Blood Fields}=-_]

Reflections shattered by the remorseful Reality

We call this tragedy (Review title).

Oh, and HOLY S#%T! You were right when you said it is scary how well the true end to your song fits in with my story..

For the ending of your song: Wow, what a triumphant...yet (maybe a illusion of my mind) bitter sounding grand finish! I say bitter just because of that last bit after the cymbal crash...chilling to my story...And the timpani roll starting the ending..bone chilling man..

BEFORE COUNTINUING THE READING OF THE STORY I ASK YOU AND ALL OTHERS THAT MAY BE READING THIS TO RE-READ MY REVIEW FOR THE DEMO! (I will be starting from the last sentence I left off on).

Remorseful Triumph Makes a Tragedy: "We then see the would-have-been slayed hero, behind him, an axe is risen..It begins to fall.." And just as the former leader looks up from a loss now realized as greater to him then his own life we see him wince...the axe had fallen, and he had become the victor...or so it would seem..to someone completely OBLIVIOUS TO THE REMORSE BUILDING WITH HIM! With tears falling we hear a scream, one so powerful the pointless war of the remaining minions halts to a stop...even if just for a breif moment, every beast, man, woman...warrior..every mortal being on that battlefield's head turned, and with each gazing eye was a burning hole in the decaying flesh of the surviving traitor.. Every breath drawn while making that glance... a breath taken out of his very essence... Now burying his head into his greatest sacrifice for "victory" he makes a silent, more heartfelt cry..all vengeance and rage had been realesed leaving only remorse and sorrow to build off of one another... We now see our hero stand, dropping his load to the ground, and with a scream towards the gods he draws up his arms, both risen high above him, with sword in hand... And in a moment the sword turned to point the one thing he truely HATED and could not stop hating till it was no more..and with an inward...inward thrust he falls once more..mouth open as if to yell, but no word retreat his mouth...and in his eyes the raging hatred and sorrow discountinued to collide until only a blank stare met his only true friends which were laying dead before him... Yet somehow this blank stare held his one and only true emotion... releif..

Now we see the ghost of the wise old man (from "These Angels of War" approaching the fallen allies. With a harmless smile he bends down to the once leader, and off of him he takes...a ring of hatred...cloak of remorse...and out of his hand comes...the sword...the sword of true meaning... And as he stands up, he looks out to the horizon, and on it stands The beast, next to it floats the evil, and finally up walks the man, together they start to mould..until finally they create one figure..the figure of the fallen traitor..therein finishing the riddle:
"The man, the beast, the evil.
They are one in the same.
Wisdom, power, Hatred.
Fear but one of them.
For if your fear each of them.
You shall not get far."

Our hero's had but miss-interpreted their little riddle..They were not to fear either the beast itself, the evil itself, or the man itself, but the combination of all three of them growing in their leader, for he was the one to fear! ..And it wasn't until his last breath that he realized, he had been overcomed by no monster, beast, or evil, but the enemy that was his own greed..and with his death, they were infused back within their items..only to provide another Tragedy for another group of friends in some other age...

Wow, I'm finally done? This song worked in such good cooperation with my story that I was able to fulfill the full climax...Beautiful peace..thanks for letting me write..5/5
(Wow, I'm actually..sad...) D';

MaestroRage responds:

:'(

So the story has finally come to it's glorious climax.

Didn't I tell you the songs end worked well with your story ;)?

And it did. Truly very well written here Magi. Such power, such last unsalvaged nobility that rings through the heart of everybody who would dare witness his sorrow filled rage. Shaking the very foundations of their souls, the imagery was simply amazing.

It truly makes me sad my good sir. That this world we have built together has, at least for now, come to a close. Filling it wish characters, and story alike we have given it life, and it has enjoyed what we would have it do.

I don't even know what to write to be honest. I am also quite saddened. It is over, but with a new day, a new world can be born, and a new story can be told.

Thank you for your story, your time, your efforts, and your countless reviews. They are all, very warmly appreciated.

Don't be a stranger Magi ;). I am glad you liked the piece!

[_-={Passionate Freedoms}=-_]

WOW, I wish life gave me this feeling...

Both a story for the countinueing ones I have been doing, and another, exclusive one if you will, just for this song, I one I wish were true.

Song: I don't even know what to say, it is all so harmonically beautiful I am in awe...the complexity of the rythms doesn't even through off any harmony in the song, and in fact gives one a lovely heart leaping feeling inside...unexplainable..

Story1:Part1: The Love is Planted. (The tainted hero while still part of the group, falling in love with a lovely ally).
Always he had had a chemistry with her, every time they met, they couldn't help but to smile. Every time one talked, the other always showed an uncanny amount of interest in what they had to say. Discussions were impossible to keep straight between them, as either one would like nothing else then to hear the other talk for an eternity. It was a fresh, youthful love, one that completely over took the minds of them when together.
Story1:Part2: As the Soil of Confusion breaks:
It was a wonderful night, a victory had been had, the air was warm, and the ocean was quite. The cool ocean breeze and the light of a full moon created a completely surreal atmosphere around them. The entire group had been celebrating the great victory and was rejoicing at the camp, no far from here. The leader and his Valentine had somehow wandered off from the group, to a not fire lit, but moonlit surrounding. They talked for a while, and could not keep from smiling, the warmth of one another could have kept them from saving the world if it had been ending. They looked at eachother after a long silence..embraced..and gave eachother a heartfelt kiss..
Story1:Part3: As it Blossomed:
Ever since that night, they could not help but to give a great smile, and embrace at every encounter with one another. And although the boundless amount of time they wished to of had together was never able to be fullfilled, the feelings given from one another indescribable, and the compassion infinite, they did not bother to hide their love at all, as the entire group would get a moral lift every time they were scene together, like reading a beatiful love story they got a little of that feeling, and by getting that feeling they were able to give a little...

Story 2: Wouldn't it be Nice:
In a simple world, where adventure was not a dream, but an occupation..where truelove isn't a fairy tail, but an event..and where freedom isn't a right, but a feeling..this is the kind of world I would love to live in..One with lands to be traveled that are completely unknown to you, enemies which are enemies to all and acknowledged for being so, were you don't even need to know someone for them to be a friend, Where you can just take off with a group of friends and all of you're belongings, run to an unknown land, and start over..One where no one is prejudged, but everyone is mindful enough to at least put themselves in anothers shoes from time to time, even if they came to the conclusion that what had to be done had to be done. A place where you can "Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth." ~Mark Twain~

This piece is not only musically thrilling but an emotional fertelizer (for lack of a better term = P). Thanks for submitting this one. 5/5.
~TheWisestMagi~

MaestroRage responds:

hmmm... such superb written words here magi!

The story is one that held deep for me, and your second story is one I dream of nearly on a nightly basis. A world so full of adventure, yet rigid enough to support itself. A world where people can be friends by merely shaking hands. True friends through actions moreso then words...

ah it hurts me to think it knowing it could never bo so...

As for the first story. A blossoming love eh? It is a blissful scenerio where the love between friends is fully supported, for there is nearly always a spring of jealousy in the steps of those following behind. A small unsquashable tinge of thought that complains non stop "but why can't I have that?!"

Then again, true comrades would not have this problem, where the benefit of one, benifits them all...

wonderfully written Magi, I enjoyed reading it all. Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it!