Stardust-Nation's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Neon Noir]

Cool! Nice job with that electric guitar at 0:27

LunyAlex responds:

Thank you!

[Lockyn + Karaplex - Wanderer]

I hear that the future will be beautiful, with pizza at the speed of light, and purple made of snow. Is this true?

Lockyn responds:

Yes! all the pizza is combo toppings too.

[Stardust [Dream Trance]]

Decent, but I still think the best Stardust-themed song on Newgrounds is that one by Soutfast. It would be fantastic if you made a remix of that, maybe.

DJStriden responds:

I am three inches away from renaming this song to potato.

[Hard Two [HARD EDM]]

I think you may have missed the point of dubstep in this song. It would have been great if you just cut out the REEEEEWHIRRRRs in this song, and instead did something more along the lines of what you did with Catalyst, or just something else entirely. But those scratchy sounds... ergh. I know that's basically what everyone else has said at this point, and i'm sure you're tired of it by now, but y'know...

DJStriden responds:

Nah I think the screeches are great in my personal opinion :) Good for FPS style gameplay.

[Level Six [Video Game]]

Not bad. Not bad at all. It's just a bit too much of a clusterfunk. I liked all the individual parts, but they were too disjointed from each other to feel right. Especially the parts before the first drop. After that, the flow is better, but again, not quite perfect. I'm at a loss as to how to specifically recommend a solution to that, but I guess it's up to you.

DJStriden responds:

Absolutely, I'll keep that in mind :)

[Xtrullor - Dropping Fish]

Wow. This is your very first dubstep track, and it still holds up even four years later! It's very interesting how different this is from a lot of your other songs. The bass and even the melody both sound so different from the robot-gasm sounds you've become famous for, but at the same time, I really enjoy it. Some parts kind of remind me of a Dr. Phonics song, and the rest is just unique. You should revisit this kind of stuff eventually. I like it.

[Xtrullor - Event Horizon]

I always have to rate high on your songs because you're xtrullor, and this song is awesome. But it isn't perfect. In terms of the melody, I thought it was fantastic, and perhaps your best ever. It's very consistent and memorable, yet still hard-hitting and epic. I also really thought that break in the very middle was great. The piano afterwards, followed by the buildup, was all done almost perfectly.

Now, I move on to the areas in need of improvement.

First of all, you should have put that first drop in later, because the buildup is very short, and it just feels like it came way too soon. As for the drops themselves, they were probably the weakest links here. The first drop was decent, but lacked any form of direction. It was also fairly short, but since the rest of the song is just as important, that isn't a big problem. The bigger problem to me was the second drop. I was kind of disappointed there, because as opposed to turning up the intensity from the first, it almost felt like you turned it DOWN. There was way too much *Dwang, Dwang, Dwang* and *Dwong, Dwong, Dwong*; and not enough direction or control, as before. It was very much a disappointment there. One last problem is the ending, which was just... awkward. It reminded me of the ending of Sphero, which is an issue.

Despite all that I just said in my last paragraph, this is still a great song, which I've downloaded and listened to several times. I rate it an 8.5/10

[Blue Skies]

You've got some talent, for sure. Through listening to a couple of your songs, I can tell that you know what you're doing when it comes to composing, mixing, and mastering. The only problem is one which tends to be a recurring issue. Your songs are a bit too quiet. I have to crank up the volume to hear it fully, which is kind of annoying. I suggest that you just increase the volume on your tracks.

[Return to Sender]

This isn't too bad. Only thing I dislike is the title. You should have called it vortex tunnel or something

[Evolutionary Purpose (WIP)]

This track is all over the place. It needs a better lead up to the first drop and some sort of synths melody at the beginning