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[hider=Reviews][hider=Homesick]The lyrics are pretty nice, and I must say you do have the capability to sing pretty well. Still, I was somewhat disrupted when the absolutely first word of the entry is a grammatical error (should be you’re). I will say that it does sound nice, and I wouldn’t doubt that these could be real lyrics. Though, yeah, I am not stunned to the point of awe due to that. My apologies.[/hider]

[hider=Still Waiting]Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah- *kadunk* … There were only two ways that entry could have ended, and regardless of your choice you built it up rather masterfully. I’d like to congratulate you on an entry well done. You pulled me away from my boredom and made me invested into the entry. I will consider it for my vote when I get there. Though, I must honestly say I don’t see the connection to the song. It feels like the song would have been sung AFTER the entry took place, which feels odd and I don’t know if this is supposed to be the case. Oh, well, it was only supposed to be inspiration, after all. Oh, well.[/hider]

[hider=Go West]Ah, I get it. The song is his answer to her question. She has absolutely nothing to fear. What a wonderfully little happy entry to come immediately after that downer-one. There are so many beautiful little emotions about this piece, I am going to congratulate you for a work well done. I am now smiling a little silly smile. It does feel a little wordily inferior, but perhaps that was the best way to do this entry. Oh, dear, I’m conflicted. Eh, I got 25 more entries to read, I’ll probably find something. XD[/hider]

[hider=It Watches]… I wonder if this is completely filled to the brim in poetic justice with literal techniques that makes this a little masterpiece not seen in 100 years. I wouldn’t know. All that I know is that I am kind of indifferent to it, and I can’t listen to that song (not because of the video being unwatchable, but because of that voice) so I looked up the lyrics instead. Yeah, there’s an inspiration. Well. I’m still indifferent. I can’t give it criticism, because I don’t see anything wrong with it, yet I can’t even praise it because I’m unsure if I understand it. … Suppose it is the perfect entry, then? XD[/hider]

[hider=Perfect Day]… Oh, wow, what… What the heck…!? Y-you’re making it so that he’s… singing to the drug…!? … Actually, is he!? I… I don’t know… I just know this entry is making me feel disgusted… Which actually might mean that this entry is pulled off perfectly, and a masterpiece causing exactly the reaction it was made to trigger. Geesh. … Hope you’re happy. I didn’t see any errors, so… Agh… Haha… Just know the reaction you caused in me…[/hider]

[hider=No Place I’d Rather Be]Oh, is this a checker-pattern? They seem to go depressing-heartlifting-depressing-heartlifting. You playing with our emotions, here, mdk? Or perhaps that was just intelligent? Haha. In any case, I am impressed at how you could turn it into a little love-story with relatively few changes to the lyrics. The writing is pretty nice, too, so it has all that going for it. It made me smile. Thanks for that.[/hider]

[hider=Novocain (e?)]… HAH! … Alright. That’s a message I can agree to. And I can truly see the appalled expression of the ignorant individual that the person in question is singing to. Quite the sight, really. The lyrics work just fine, nicely done. … Yupp, I believe that is all I can say about it.[/hider]

[hider=Sky Full of Stars]… Ah. That song. Need to listen no more. XD … Alright. So, I wasn’t entirely impressed with this entry. It didn’t really have a beginning, the thing about the military was just somewhat depressing, the cute little girl didn’t get to continue with the telescope… Yeah, a little girl interested in constellations is a cute thing, and then it was suddenly interrupted. Hm. Maybe that’s the message. Eh, due to the lack of happening I wasn’t particularly touched by this piece. Eh, no worries. You can write, after all.[/hider]

[hider=Smoke and Mirrors]Well. It is rather pretty. A little verse from the subject of the song. … It is pretty. … … … … … Yeah.[/hider]

[hider=Cops and Robbers]You set up a rather interesting scenario, however, really. Even if that is what happens in the song, it was a really anti-climatic ending to the piece. I could see it coming from a mile away, and the atmosphere of the song didn’t match the atmosphere here at all, and I am really confused to what I should be thinking about this piece. … Eh. I wasn’t impressed, I guess is what I’m trying to say. I’ve read this depressing piece before. Seeing everything from the perspective of the sadistic guy who says there’s no choice but to play cops and robbers, that ‘Simon says you think better with a hole in your head!’ would have been more interesting. Well, it was your choice and it still read well, but I’m not impressed. Good writing, though. Feel free to try again.[/hider]

[hider=Shades of White and Black]… Nice. Frickin’ nice. I had trouble getting into this piece, because I thought that I could see where it was going. Depressing pieces are always so… dreary. I was just thinking of how I could praise your writing while still saying it isn’t for me, but that ending… Nice. Turned everything on its head, and brought a little shining glimmer of hope with a well pulled-off little twist. Thank you, I needed that. Well done. You’ve left an impression. Haha. … CAN I SINCERELY NOT FIND THE LYRICS TO THIS THING ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET!? … NOPE! GUESS NOBODY IN THE WORLD KNOWS WHAT SHE’S SINGING! XD[/hider]

[hider=Little Me]… Heh. This entry made me smirk. Nicely done. Pretty inspirational song you chose, there, and put an amusing little twist on the contents. The speech did sound a little odd, mostly because you blended in the lyrics into the text, but I see what you were doing so it’s fine. Pretty creative. … Really, that is all I have to say. I’m not sure I’d consider it for vote, others affected me more, but I like it. That’s about it.[/hider]

[hider=Escalation of Two Brothers]… The plot is predictable and archetypical, the lyrics of the song blended into the text half-hazardly at best even if the inspiration is obvious, the message and the ending is oddly delivered in shaking parts that is difficult to tell if it is meant to be a message at all… But I love it. The feeling of a typical adventure followed with an dramatic song and odd supernatural powers and the like… I love it. I probably won’t vote for this entry, but do know that you made me smile widely and that I love this piece. Thank you very much for writing it. Teh-heh.[/hider]

[hider=Headfirst slide into Cooperstown on a bad bet]Wow. The title is almost longer than the entry. … … … Geesh. Way to turn an inspirational tune depressing. Oh, well. Well done, I guess. I mean, I don’t see anything wrong with it, though I don’t really see anything unimaginably impressive either. Hahaha.[/hider]

[hider=Kings]… You dare mix anything of Mozart’s with drugs!? … XD … Gosh. What a crooked mix. That happy, brilliant, may I say royal-sounding tune mixed with this twisted intention for it… Allow me to applaud you for making me enjoy the twisted nature of this. That’s some imagination and twisted abuse of what is well known. I mean, had it just been Mozart, then I’d just smile and listen. Had it just been this entry I would have sighed and moved on. In combination… such a twisted world… Gosh. Well done. Well done, man. Yikes.[/hider]

[hider=Stepping Out]… Hah. You sure THAT’S what the song was referring to? Or is that just your own little take on it? Geesh. That was depressing. And yet I am smiling at the stupid song. Geesh. Oh, well. I guess I will praise the atmosphere, I know you got that one down pretty well. I didn’t understand most of the third part, but I did understand the end to it, and that’s just eh. I’ve read it a hundred times before. That’s the bad part about having been a Roleplayer Guild writing contest veteran, I guess. Still, nice job with the atmosphere. … Hah…[/hider]

[hider=Unraveling]Thank you for writing this. I have no idea how much time or effort it took to write this, really. I’m unsure if you used some techniques for matching syllables or something… Eh… In any case. … The contents didn’t impress me, though. I wonder if I should study what’s impressive about these things. Maybe then I could give more fair reviews.[/hider]

[hider=Poet and the Pendulum]… Heh. It is a story I have heard before… But something about your story-telling is just enticing, Somehow, it was interesting. I don’t exactly get what he did, but I do understand the results of it. The ending wasn’t anything special, just another step on his journey, but the story itself was fascinating, somehow. Underdogs destroying those who thinks themselves in command is always nice. The lines to the inspiration are clear and so… Nicely done.[/hider]

[hider=For Blue Skies]… Reading the entry before listening to the song was the correct choice. It was, like, a perfect build-up. First it was only small-talk, getting to know both the characters. They it was encouraging the other person, saying that the other person had helped so much. … And then, as it developed it became apparent that something had happened. To the writer, no less. It isn’t immediately obvious what. And then, just exactly as I started to realize… the PS confirmed what otherwise would have confused me. Masterfully done. An amazing experience, that would have been entirely spoiled had I listened to the song first. What a genius thing to make from nothing but this absurdly sub-par song (I apologize if you think differently). Allow me to tip my hat and congratulate you for this feat. You may just have snared my vote. This text got to be the best thing that has ever happened to that song. Even the slight grammatical errors or mistakes in the writing can be explained by that it is an actual person writing this. Perfect. Just… just perfect. Well done.[/hider]

[hider=Raggle Taggle Gypsy]I like the song. I like the story you’ve written of it, it makes sense, and honestly, the song left things unsaid and this was a pretty good way of doing it justice. And yet… … … That’s not an ending… … …  I’m… slightly disappointed, since I liked what was… Oh, well…[/hider]

[hider=Kataigida]Nice title. … Oh, wow. Game soundtrack? … Ooooh, I see what you did there. Alright. … Indeed. There are few times an amount of words that vaguely make out a scene can be so epic. It is an impressive experience, indeed. … Not sure I can give it a vote for writing masterpiece things, though. XD[/hider]

[hider=At the English Fair]I would never have done something with that particular song. Particularly not something about supernatural spirits challenging random mortals to a game in order to free a wish-granting woman, or whatever she was. … It was entertaining. Thanks for that. Pretty nicely written, and an amusing twist on it. Good one. That’s all I can say. Haha.[/hider]

[hider=Expectations]… Yikes. … Poor girl. … … … … … … … … … Well. Suppose the story did what it was meant to do. Well done on that point. It didn’t feel particularly spectacular, though, so I don’t have so much more to say on that. Just… poor girl. And guess that if the lottery ticket was only seven dollars win, I guess he left her for some different wicked reason. … Instant karma.[/hider]

[hider=Do You Dare To Win]… Right. Uh. Someone will need to explain this one to me, because I don’t understand. So… he was in a simulation, I guess. But… wasn’t he still 24 hours away from the “This job wasn’t worth it” line? … Is there a reason he’s saying “Job” with a capital letter? I mean, I’m trying to see past that the entry is riddled with such smaller errors but it is kind of difficult. … Um. Oh, well. Do feel free to try to make me say something else next time, if you want to. It isn’t as if I like writing reviews like this one…[/hider]

[hider=You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid]It feels like this entry kind of got a little bit… dirty at one / two times, but eh. It was nicely written, and you started to care for the rather amusing main character… … … Meh. That twist didn’t do it for me. It didn’t in any way make it a better story for me. That was just… Bleh. I don’t know if Vivian or El Cero are established characters in that world, maybe El Cero shows up later as a villain and has a reputation from “He killed the famed Searing Salamander after being trained by her” or so, so you thought of writing the circumstances or something, but… Eh, no. I don’t feel like writing more on this entry. Suppose you can consider this a success, because I got upset. Mempah.

… Reminds me of that one entry which I had that ended pretty much the same way, but I at least had built up the atmosphere… mdk, did you ever give me that review? I’m trying to recall… XD[/hider]

[hider=Clear your head and open your heart]Well written, I can say that much. It might be my own exhaustion at this point, but my attention wandered during the long paragraphs in the beginning and I had to ask myself if I had read a part or not, having failed to get excited or anything like that. But… let me hug you. Thank you… so very much… for having a heart-warming ending. Thank you. Thank you so very much. Let me hug you. Auuuwh. Sob.[/hider]

[hider=What Do You Say?]… That was a story that I think was probably better told in the video, but kudus for doing it anyway. The quality Is pretty good, though, the story isn’t particularly amazing, and the fact that the video of the song told the same story, a picture tells a thousand words, made it feel like there was rather little that you had actually filled in. Yeah, there is little here that stands out. But, as I said, you do have the ability to write. So, yeah.[/hider]

[hider=Never Forget]… Oh, holy crap. Here we go.

… I have been through a lot of World War II stories. I have seen stories of all three of these routes. I have seen the stories following captives sent to camps, both tragedies and those with… “happy” endings. I have seen the stories about both German and Allied soldiers, which often are tragedies when about German soldiers and bittersweet victories when about Allies. And also, I have seen stories about the commands of both sides… but never ever before, have I seen a representation of World War II using… anything else. Like, aliens and humans in a Sci-Fi world. I must praise you for putting a twist on that which I have never seen before.

I must also praise you for the amount of work you have put into this. Reading the author’s note and all of that… You’ve put a lot of thought and work into this. Looking at it like this… it really does feel like this is somewhat of a different league than the other entries. I mean, this story could have made a pretty interesting movie. Or book-series. Anything, really. … And I really love winged beings, winged girls is among the most awe-inspiring and beautiful and magnificent idea that has ever appeared on this planet, so seeing such beings being treated like that causes pain to a very personal part of my heart. The ending was… exactly what one would expect it to be, but it was an experience nonetheless. Hm. Now I really wonder what I should do with this vote of mine.

In any case. A job really well done.[/hider]

[hider=Newton’s Cradle]… Oh. It’s a piece fully inspired by the music… and I see how this stage was set up by the title of the song. I like it. Her freeing herself to this dark tunes and destroying her captors was a very satisfying experience. A little madness is wonderful, is it not? Still, the piece lacks a proper ending and isn’t so marvelous as to compete with some of the rest. But it was a nice experience. Thank you.[/hider]

[hider=Hunter’s Season]… *sigh* A thoroughly depressing story, inspired by a depressing song. The constant switches to first-person was confusing, but I did get used to them eventually. It is written by someone who has the skill to create pleasing texts, but yeah, I don’t find this particularly pleasing. There was no explanation to the tragedies, of why she had to die or why the village was attacked. It was all for the sake of tragedy. Well, if that’s what you want to write… *shrugs*[/hider][/hider]

... GASPS! ... I apologize to anyone I may have discouraged / depressed / infuriated / offended with my writing my opinion of the text. Gasp. Alright, now I'll go do something else.