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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Storytelling | #139 | 3.311 | 3.857 |
| Impression | #148 | 3.311 | 3.857 |
| Overall | #169 | 3.201 | 3.729 |
| Composition | #173 | 3.250 | 3.786 |
| Quality | #195 | 3.066 | 3.571 |
| Creativity | #197 | 3.066 | 3.571 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Mostly piano and woodwinds, kinda unsetling stuff, I used musescore. The most important themes are the variations on "Hundred Seventieth Promise" (the 170 promises that the sun will rise daily until approximately the first day of summer) and "The World." The first one represents the sacred and ancient, first as an introduction to the myth of the Temple of the Sun, then as the theme of the Temple of the Sun, and finally as the climax of the shifting of the world's axis. I tried to make it sound like church music. "The World" represents humanity; I tried to make it sound inspiring and a bit adventurous, like a call for you. It first appears after you've come to terms with the fate of the world and taken on the task the sun left you, then at the very end, as a farewell and a bittersweet ending, as the sun forgives the moon for diminishing the people he itself gave birth to. In the end, it's basically just that: an (endless) summer night.
There's a shop theme, which somewhat represents the shopkeeper's tedium; the more time you spend there, the less welcoming the wind instrument section sounds.
There's a theme for the town center (Fortune), another for when you're on your way to the sun temple, and another for when Grandpa has a bad feeling (Augury). Finally, there's the main menu theme.
Synopsis:
It's summer vacation, and you decide to visit your grandfather in a small town. There, your grandfather handles the mail, but he's getting older and struggling to keep up, so you offer to help him with the more problematic mail. Mail on the highest hills, neighbors with problematic dogs, very heavy mail that requires you to figure out how to move it, or even traveling by boat to other islands in the archipelago.
Eventually, you get to know the people and begin to understand life there.
You have a mysterious delivery at the Temple of the Sun located in the middle of the forest. Your grandfather finds out and intercepts you to see what it's all about, as no such place exists. He tells you about this ancient myth. Although it may be a joke, your grandfather has a bad feeling and lets you go.
After passing through the maze-like forest, you find an old and very neglected building.
The corporeal version of the sun appears: an old man covered in rags whose company is very warm and carefree. He explains that the axis of the world has long worried the moon about the path humanity has been taking, and it will be the moon itself that decides to change it by force.
For some, there will be full years of light, and for others, darkness, causing the end of the world and giving rise to a completely different one. Although the sun is understanding with the moon, he also understands that many people will die due to the new configuration of the seas, the drought, and the extreme change in temperature, etc.
Then the sun asks you to open the package you originally came to deliver. Inside is a strange container that, as he explains, is used to store people's memories of virtue and happiness. You must understand other people's problems in order to solve them and make the moon understand that it was all a misunderstanding, using the jar as proof.
Message from the artist
I've been playing Majora's Mask for the very first time recently, and it's incredible how well the game has aged. I was inspired by the storyline of helping the people of "Termina" to collect items that help you on your adventure. I also added a Ni no Kuni mechanic where you harness emotions to give them to others.
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
Well, the theme is "One Summer Night," and in my story, it's summer, and a catastrophe occurs that causes the night to last all year, even though it was only "One Summer Night." :D
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/gsu-863147764/sets/ending-moon
Number of tracks9
Genre
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Comments
I think you nailed consistency between tracks
I lacked a bit of experiment - for example temple of the sun seem to be just two times copied, you can clearly hear where the pause is :D. But the melody there is cool
Lovely piano ost overall!
Great soundtrack, I liked Fortuna and The World the most!
I liked the second half of the OST when the tracks started to pick up in pace which helped the pacing of the OST as a whole.
I think my favorite one was Temple of the Sun. I liked it's melody a lot.
I liked the second half of the OST when the tracks started to pick up in pace which helped the pacing of the OST as a whole.
I think my favorite one was Temple of the Sun. I liked it's melody a lot.
Awesome stuff! Great compositions all around. I'm especially fond of Fortuna and The World. The instrumentation feels really nice on all of it, and the Hundred Seventieth Promise theme makes for a very strong leitmotif. The initial version of it nails the church music vibe. If there's one thing I would like, it's to hear more elaboration and extension on that theme - I feel like the different textures and vibes of Hundred Seventieth Promise, Temple of the Sun and One Summer Predicament present opportunities to take it in several directions. Excellent submission.
fortuna is scrumptious me lovey classical-like composition <3
i feel a grandiose finality throughout all of your compositions here, which is really hard to pull off. The World really stood out to me, and i'll definitely be coming back to it in the future. thank you for sharing this :)
Very nice submission! I love those tracks, they are so different and alive! Min Menu is my favorite.
oh hell yeah this is the vibes i'm looking for. i really like the artstyle holy cow. main menu is really giving main menu. fortuna is my favourite. its so jumpy and so classical! great job. i also agree with indiekev with what he has said and that he wishes that you have other vsts to use. regardless of that this is a masterpiece!
Jesus this is all so GOOD from the start I was super hooked. I love the Shopkeeper's theme and the fact that you make it more unnerving as you go as well as compressing it in a way that feels like a music shop. You're one of those people where what I like to do aligns perfectly with what you do, and makes me yearning to be as good as you someday. Automatic follow!
Love the theme overall and it's insane to me how many absolute banger compositions you were able to fit in a week. Augury is really unnerving in the best way, the choices you've made on what to keep dissonant or not is striking. Same with Temple of the Sun, the heavy bassy dissonance works wonders. I can really tell the Zelda kinda coming through. Is part 2 of that track once you're inside it? love the touch.
Fortuna though came in as a BIG surprise! I don't know if I'm right but it almost feels like you're classicly trained, everything is so clean it's astounding. The World is perfect for world parts of the game,
OOOOOH One Summer Predicament is MY ABSOLUTE JAM, amazing work working the leitmotiv in immediately!!! I just wish you had access to better VST and it had a bit better mastering but I really LOVE your leitmotiv, it's such a great bunch of notes I'm in love lol.
Went ahead and you got my repost, really like the whole OST, other than "quality" I got absolutely only amazing things to say, lovely!
Reading your comment is a total relief! I had a really thought week trying to find time to compose after work😮💨
Also, I'm very flattered, how the guy who threw one of the most epic entries says those nice things xd, thank you very much 🤝
Part 2 of temple of the sun is more like, when the chat between you and the sun is almost over, is a lighten version after the bad news.
Umm, I was in an orchestra for a few years, but I wouldn't say that I'm good at classical stuff yet.
Thank you very much for your honesty, I really appreciate such direct observations. Pitifully, I haven't entered the world of mastering yet
Yeah mastering is another thing altogether definitely! I'm very very impressed by the submission, it was a 10/10 for me all around. Amazing job and thank you for the nice comment I really really take it to heart!