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Yeah, the guitars ended up too loud at the big crescendo part in the battle theme now that i'm listening to this later on 😅

Glad you liked them!

Glad you like them! 

I was intending for a final fantasy esque battle track start with a initial impact sfx with the gallop bass under that for the start of Valiant Struggle but couldn't really make the proper sounds myself and didn't want to just rip the sfx from any ff game, so I just did the barebones filter sweep which is a bit lame 😅

Personal mantra for me this year is  to just try any track ideas that come to mind, so I managed to get a lot more done compared to the usual amount in last years jams and suprisingly making stuff feels more fun and fluid by first making a draft of a new idea and then judging it later and not during/before making a first draft of it.

Thanks for the kind words, glad you liked them! 🙏 

Love me some uematsu too, though grew up on 10 and 9 myself 😄

I've tried learning trackers myself but the spreadsheet/column way of working has never really clicked for me and feels really hard to read compared to a piano roll or sheet music 😅

Magical Box is a nice soundset (also really cheap for the quality), but Plogue's Chipsynth SFC might be a better to get in the long term since its a really accurate clone of the snes chip, has the snes echo effect and can rip instruments from snes game to use inside the plugin, I probably would have gotten that instead if it had been released back when I was looking for snes sounds 😄

Glad you liked them!

Yeah, could've been a bit more melody focused, but still has a really nice atmosphere and is one of the few sci-fi takes of the theme in the jam amidst all the fantasy medieval stuff.😄

Melody stuff aside, this is still really good!

For the melody, having all the notes be connected without any pauses to breathe is probably not going to make any brass player happy to have to play it 😄 I think that's part of the reason the melody felt a bit monotone to emirhando404.

But still the feel is nice, maybe with a larger arrangement it could feel even more powerful.

Good work!

Some story text for the weapon would've been great to visualize the setting a bit more.

The vibe is nice all around, but for me the part at 03:02 felt that it needed to have a bit more going on alongside the hihats, since the hihats playng a fast rhythm felt a off to me when everything else is really mellow 😅

But still, good work!

Like other have discussed, a bit more melodic focus would've been nice, but the atmosphere is really great.

In The World the melodic stuff feels nice, but a more of an improvisation than an actual structured melody to me. it felt to me that there is enough interesting material there to refine a melody from if you ever want to continue working more from that.

Good stuff!

Heard it before, liked it, and still do.

This evokes big souls game vibes for me, and the story setting could work for that very well in the sort of Lies of P style, now you just need to win the lottery and hire a developer to make the actual game 😄

Maybe if you continue this more at some point adding a b melody might make this even better since its just the iterating on the same melody throughout, but the a melody is nice and the track  works just fine  as it is now.

Good work!

Somehow the YACK at the end of the growl at 04:12 cracked me up 😂

Melodically and just the overall vibe reminded me a bit of the mongolian band Hanggai, I'm not the biggest fan on growled vocals but in this context they worked great all though with how heavy and powerful the growling sound was it kinda made the cleaner feel a bit weak? not meaning the singing/delivery but just the mix on the clean's felt a lot less powerful to me.

I think this is the first submission I've heard from Grunt without any tremolo guitar parts that I've kinda come to expect as their trademark/signature element in tracks 😄

I guess this could be called a souls like song since it features the Moonlight Sword in the story 😉

Really great stuff, solid work from both!

Finally some lyrics in a KaleOverlord submission 😉

Lyrics outline the story well! I'm really bad at writing actual poetry and just write simplistic stuff whenever I write any lyrics so can't really  do a professional review, but to me they were great and looking forward to more.

The echoing repeat of the vocals in the background in the start was really cool, not sure if you just used a delay or actually recorded new takes but added a lot to the feel anyway. 

The folk music vibe is great with a really solid and catchy melody that fits the theme nicely, you even got the classic folk melody trope on "It was harder than a diamond, stronger than any steel." that I'm always happy to hear on a song 😄

Good work!

This took me a bit by surprise from the get go since every submission before this has been fantasy medieval stuff aside from a few sci-fi takes 😄

But have to say this is a jam, really good stuff and could've listened to a lot more!

Really original take on the theme and the melody sounds nice, cant really say more.. good work!

The minimal instrumentation gives this a bit of a melancholic vibe which is really cool.

When I heard your WIP version with just the piano intro in the jam discord devlog channel I didn't realize it then,  but hearing the melody on the trumpet gives me some big Nightwish vibes and has really nice heroic feel to it,

If you ever work more on this, just slap a bigger/fuller arrangement on it and you got some real gold.

Good work!  

Fantastic atmosphere!

The melody is also nice, maybe the laid back feel of the arrangement is what made the melody feel less memorable to some people but for me it was really nice, but I do have a bit of a personal bias towards folky sounding stuff 😅

I'd wager a guess if this had been the same material and melodies but with a more energetic arrangement, people would've thought it was more memorable just because of the more energetic feel 😄

The presentation/production quality was really great with the project page info and the excellent melody analysis video, will probably have to remember to do a similar thing if there is ever a Melody Jam #2

For me this was really great stuff, good work!

Many thanks 🙏

Glad you liked them!

Personally would've had the melodic instruments like the santur a bit louder in the mix as they felt a bit under the percussion and pads at parts.

The choir pad with the percussion and the piano sequence gave me a lot off same vibes as the music from Final Fantasy 10, not sure if you're a fan of Masashi Hamauzu but you managed to evoke a lot the same ambiance they did in that, just a really cool atmosphere all around.

Good work!

Shame you didn't upload the whole thing with the score to musescore's website, would've been nice to listen along with the score, but I understand if you don't want to share the whole score publicly there.

Like others have mentioned the mix feels a bit dry, or should I say really close? with the feel of the track being very fantasy forest music-ish to me, it got me wondering how this would feel with the whole ensemble sounding a bit further away and in a large hall setting to really give it that feel of grandeur the material feels like it deserves (to me at least 😉) .

Feels very much the music that plays under the narration telling the story of the Weapon Of Legend, so you nailed the theme nicely for me.

Good work!

Really solid melody, all though personally was expecting it to change or get more motion to it as the track went on, since it starts pretty simplified and just keeps the same all throughout which gets a bit boring since the track is over 4 minutes long.

But that's just my tastes/subjective feel, still really good work!

Don't see submissions made with Strudel often on jams. really cool!

The atmosphere is nice, especially liked the swelling pad in the back a lot, but after the  2minutes mark when the lines start playing together it starts to turn a bit muddy with my ear unable to really latch on to what to listen to with so much stuff going together at once.

But still, good work!
 

Agree with everything Noahrav mentioned, would've been great to hear what sort of scene/setting this track meant for, but can see this fitting in the sort of fairytale of the legendary weapon in the vein of breath of the wild.

Good work!

Have to agree with Deádric336 on the melody. For me the melody part did not really feel like a proper melody as it just worked  as part of the harmony with held notes for the duration of the chords. I would've liked to have more melodic movement on it to give it a shape and rhythm to really make it melodic and memorable,

But other than that, really nice vibe, almost feels like a  souls like game boss fight with the choir and organ and the dramatic chord stabs.

Good work!

Feels a bit overtly happy and calm to really fit the Weapon Of Legend theme to me.

Melody feels nice, you could maybe have some little pauses in the phrases at parts since it kinda feels like on long sentence. The most natural way for feeling those spots is just trying to sing, hum, or whistle the melody and you probably will naturally feel the spots where to pause a bit while performing it yourself.

Arrangement/orchestration wise it would've been cool to have a more drastic change than just dropping the strings at  0:55,since rest of the accompaniment keeps playing the same it doesn't really feel a big of a shift, having the other accompaniment parts change too would've made the change to the calmer part feel more powerful.

Just my subjective feels, but still good stuff!

Not many sci-fi takes on the theme, but really cool take on it!

For the melody, I would've personally preferred to have more melodic movement on it, since as it is now it really doesn't feel like a melody to me, and more just playing the chord tones.

But still the ambiance is great, that sort of sequenced bass with delay always gives me big Mass Effect vibes 😄

Good work!

I agree with Kurkku that the vocals are not bad at all! They just get a bit buried with the guitars, you should have more confidence on them and mix them more in the front since they're really nice.

Good work!

The melodic material is nice, but I'd maybe try to use more of a question and answer form on the melody as you have a lot times where the melody gets repeated verbatim like first at 0:16 and then again exactly same at 0:24. Having the repeat be a answer to the first one would help it make the melody feel more like its developing/moving instead of just repeating, all though the repetition does kinda fit the sort of marching feel of the track as a whole

Just my subjective feels, but still, good work!

Like Noahrav mentioned that volumes were a bit too loud at parts for some instruments, and the percussion 02:23 could maybe be pushed a bit  further in the room since they felt really dry and in your face compared to everything else.

The melodic stuff was really nice! I don't know if its the hybrid orchestra style you used on this, but listening to this really brought mind the music that League Of Legends uses for their esports tournaments.

Good stuff!

Vibes wise getting some Goldsmith's Alien vibes with the melody, really cool!

Good stuff!

Maybe the track could've gotten to the melodic a bit sooner as this is a Melody focused jam, and over half of the track is more in the ambient cinematic orchestra side without much melodic material.

But when the melody finally comes it's really nice! One thing though as it is currently is that its the same melody repeated twice pretty much verbatim, I'd maybe recommend having the first time around end on a downwards motion instead of the rising one currently, since it feels a bit jumpy as it jumps back down to the start on the repeat and then having that exact rising motion repeated again at the end of the repeat makes it feel a bit less impactful, but if the rising motion is only at the end of the repeat that would really feel like the final high point of the melodic section that then goes back to the mellower ambient stuff.

Just my subjective feelings about it, but still really good work!

The guitar tone is a bit too bright/harsh and overpowers everything else, but the material itself is nice. I think with a less harsh guitar tone or just some EQ to take out some of the harshness + maybe lowering the volume of the guitar if needed, you've get a great track.

Good work!
 

Those were what I had in mind while making these, especially with the down pitched tambourine hits 😄

Glad you liked them!

After playing Celeste I can't stop thinking about the music from that whenever I hear piano arpeggios played in the upper register 😄

The melodies are very heroic and upbeat a bit in the 80's tradition on  the vibe side, which from remembering your other submissions you seem to have a knack for that style. Only thing that stuck out me a bit was that for a battle theme Wielding The Astral Lance felt a bit too mellow in the arrangement and didn't really give me a feeling of action/battle happening and felt more like a end credits tune to me, the track itself is great, but couldn't really feel it in the intended setting.

Just my subjective take of course, but still, good stuff!

This has so much of the folk influences and tropes in the melody I really love, so this is really up my alley 😄

The orchestral sounds may not do justice to the parts with how plasticky/stiff they can feel at times, but stock orchestra sounds are always a bit limited in dynamics and articulations to shape the performance to sound more realistic and dynamic.

But sounds aside, really liked this, good work!
 

Really solid melody! Maybe the texture is a bit thin to my taste, especially before the end when the horns/perc come in, but I guess you wanted the final repeat of the melody to really feel majestic and it does work great as is (probably  just my personal tastes like i said 😅 )

Good work!

I really liked the  TANtatatataTAA! figure you have the cellos start playing at 0:30, but then the flutes come in and start playing the frankly less memorable/boring parts IMO and the cellos keep taking my attention away every time I hear them play the TANtatatataTAA! figure again in the background. I really wished you had latched onto that and used it more prominently for the melody.

Still, good work!

The melody is solid and pretty catchy!

When the main section repeats again, there could've been a bit more changes to the parts on the repeat as it kinda feels like the same thing again verbatim which then just suddenly ends after the build that lead to  the repeat before, which felt a bit too sudden.

But still, good work!
 

Like EinelTheFox said its a bit short but should you continue working more on this after the jam, I think you got some really great material here with the nice melody and everything.

Good stuff!

Really great atmosphere, maybe a bit too chilled out on its own for the Weapon Of Legend theme to me, but the melody is really nice and just the whole overall track has a great feel with the groovy bass and rhythmic percussive elements.

Good work!

The lead line you have repeating is nice, but it feels more like a ostinato than a melody since its just the same shot figure repeating.

Adding a second part to it that would maybe rise towards the end to contrast the previous downwards curve could maybe help make it feel less of a ostinato and then from there you could change stuff on repeats to make it feel more developing.

Still, good work!

Nailed the ambient feel of the WoW music, the pads and textures give some of that teldrassil/ashenvale feel.

Personally I would've maybe like the flute to be a bit more distant sounding like the rest of the instruments since it kinda feels too in your face and lessens the great relaxing mood that the rest give with how close it is (just my feel)

Played on and off from vanilla to bfa as a tauren druid, so extra points for the right class choice? 😉 

Good stuff!