I heard that chord progression 50 times before...
...But who cares, generic chord progressions don't necessarily make your song bad. Nice job, this is a pretty cool song you have here ;).
Melodies, as I said, were generic, and not the best I've heard, but still nice. Climax at 1:08 was well done, but I wished the song, at 1:36, would take a break from the main melody, and then the melody starts fading in slowly, along with some drums soon after. Well, I hope I'm allowed to use other songs as reference... anyway, take this song (remove spaces) as an example: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/277684 ...at 1:21, there's a break from the main action-packed melodies of the song. Something like that would do wonders in this song ^^.
Instruments are very nice, and not that generic. It didn't move onto that very familiar saw wave along with a few bells in the background and a bland kick beat like what happens in a lot of dance songs. Loved the square wave that first distinctly appeared at 0:13, and the one playing the melodies was quite interesting. 1:07, if I'm not mistaken, had a vocal sample. Nice job putting it there, but I would've preferred if you increased its volume some more. Good sound effects throughout the song though.
The transitions were all smooth, and some were very well done, like the one with the vocal sample at 1:07. All new instruments were introduced very well, too. Song structure and variety aren't so good though. It was just that same chord progression with the square wave playing for practically the whole song, and it got rather annoying. I'd prefer you removed the square wave, or even better, make it play other melodies, and leave the melody that its playing right now to the bass.
Intro was great. It started a little too softly, and I had to turn the volume up quite a bit to see if what I was hearing was a very soft melody or just silence, so you could turn up the first part a little, but other than that, excellent intro, with a cool sound effect that moved into the main melody at 0:13. The ending was a fade ending, and I really wish it wasn't, since fade endings almost never turn out that good. I can't think of any way to end it though, sorry :( ; just try and think up an ending which isn't too abrupt or wierd, and fits well with the song.
The drums, as Kirbyfemur said, were very good. Wish they were louder though; at times I wondered if they were even there. Still, they were varied (well, I *think* they were varied anyway... I could barely hear them :P), had nice samples, good beats, fit with the song extremely well, and I liked that you used a crash cymbal here and there to mark new parts in the song.
Overall, I enjoyed this song, although it has a few defects, namely fade ending, quiet drums/vocal sample/intro, and variety. Fix those, maybe think up a few more melodies too, and you have yourself a top-5 worthy song ^^.
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