Very serene! Both of these songs I can very easily see in an actual game. They gave me some surprisingly clear imagery of a peaceful serene town by the water. Nicely done!

Sunset Boulevard: This town has some character! I love the gentle tone mixed with the mysterious undertones with the background flourishes that slide in and out of pitch. I am currently playing through Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and this theme makes me imagine a town very similar to the Twilight Town area (one of my favorites!). I think your selection of instruments is super strong for a town theme with the string pizzicato, electric bass, clarinet, and xylophone. The pad you chose is what sells me on the sunset specific theme though. One area I thought might be a good thing to comment on to think about is that you use a lot of upward rising motion (arpeggios, end of your melodic phrase, etc.) which may invoke a sense of sunrise to the careful listener. I also chose the sunset theme and didn’t even think about using downward motion as a musical imagery tool for a sunset, but I wonder how it would have changed your theme if you maybe the arpeggios flowed downward? I loved the submission as is though, excellent job!

Antique Shop: The minimalism in this piece is something to strive for and on par with Pikmin and Animal Crossing. You resisted the temptation to add in more and made something great with as little as you could get away with, and I envy that skill.

Did I imagine the town? Absolutely. The town I imagined is calm and a place of peace, but has just as many shadows as lighted areas with both a sense of joy and of mystery. The antique shop theme is an excellent personality addition that adds a quirky and simple aspect to the town. Nice work and thank you for sharing!

OMG, this is perfect! The bird chirping, the flutes, the pizzicato strings, the calmth and peace the whole thing exudes... it is delightful to listen to and exactly what I would expect from a sunset-beach town! You nailed it, great job, totally using this as reference!

Loved it! It's really calm and serene, exactly what you think of when portraying a sunset town!

The use of few instruments , long notes and bird chirps are really helping setting the tone, that works really well.

Also I loved the instruments having like a discussion in Antique Store, that was very cool!