Somaru's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[FFMQ - Doom Castle]

This is pretty good, but it could use a greater presence of bass with the guitar. Of course, it could also be the shitty headphones I have on, but whatever, lol.

[Battle Theme III]

I was gonna say this was some kind of Dystopian battle theme, but it would also do very well in a Shin Megami Tensei title. I really enjoy it!

[Battle Theme V]

This really does scream Grandia to me. Having played all the way through Grandia 3 myself (except for the last boss, the only real difficult battle in the entire game), I can say this really brings back memories of blitzing through enemies with overpowered spells on cold winter nights.

[Ultimate Warrior Theme]

The fast guitar riffs remind me of Power Rangers. lol.

[Demon Lord Battle]

Excellent! It suits a last boss or one of the forms of the last boss. I love the multiform last bosses. It fits with one of those last boss battles that just takes a long time to beat, like 10-20 minutes. I would definitely use this in a game I make myself. I should look you up as a composer whenever I get around to doing that.

[StarOcean-For Achieve - NES'd]

The NES doesn't have this many audio channels, but I find myself honestly not giving a damn. Excellent work!

phlim2 responds:

2 years later I check my comments... Wow...

Well, the NES is capable of having extra sound channels, however they were never utilised in the US/EUR games. So as a result, people don't think it can be done. v( o.o)v

[Star Ocean - For Achieve Remix]

The utter lack of snare and bass drum presence severely hampers this arrangement. A lot.

[Bare It's Fangs]

Not bad, but needs more cohesive drums. I wanna hear a remix of the PS1 version of the last boss theme...

[The birth of a god redux]

Hm, Don't really care for the instrumentation all that much, other than the Piano. The Square synths are out of place and the Saw Synths really take away from the actual song. The bass drum is too, um, well, it could be dialed back a bit.

[Ff9 last boss battle (necron)]

This song is actually called Grand Cross, and Necron's really only hard if you don't have status preventions. Other than that, Necron's a breeze. Ozma is actually the hardest boss in the game.
I don't particularly care for this remix at all. Too discordant and shrill from the original.