yo sick tune, imma make a videogame using ur music one day
w/ ur approval of course

Surprise orchestral piece. Nice to see you branching out. I don't think your instruments sound professional or recorded. I know that I personally haven't dove into this genre to know too well how to work with orchestral VSTs, but my guess is maybe there's more work needed on humanization for the notes. On repeated listens, the issue becomes more apparent particularly in sections such as 0:13. I'm assuming all the notes start at the same time, but because the strings take longer to resonate than the flutes (and English horns???), so it sounds like they start late on their attacks. Because of that, you get sections like 0:23 that to me sound sloppy. The mixing around 0:48 doesn't sound as balanced as I'd like. It's a tad difficult to hear the melody above the backing strings, especially since this is an area that you're less focused on how the instruments attack the note. 8th note triplets have a much quicker attack than whole notes, and you have them all attacking the notes the same. Maybe you're limited by what you're VST can do, but humanization is one of the main reasons I don't work in this genre lol. There's so much work that goes into making it sound natural (unless you pay an extravagant amount of money to get some high quality orchestral vst packs). That being said, excellent sound dynamics on the snare at 0:34.

I do like how you've kept the rhythmic motif throughout the whole song. It definitely has that JRPG feel. You may not have explored it as much as it was a common thread underlying the whole song, but you do craft a bunch of context around it. Your chord progressions are top tier, you have good energy dynamics, and you even step into different keys here and there. Not sure I agree with the minimal instrumentation for the final chords of the song.

It's not often I get to nitpick LSD on something, but even then this is still a pretty enjoyable piece.

I'm sure your odds wouldn't be less no matter what you went for. You have more than enough material to show that you are a very good composer, and pianist. My fear was that you go for piano too ^^

Your capabilities as composer are once again very well displayed in this piece! Would surely fit in a video game's boss fight! It's very well designed, from the beginning I imagine the boss presentation, then it settles for an epic fighting scene. The end, it gave me instant flash of inspector gadget theme! Nicely done, the music is very evocative of the theme you went for.
Good luck for the NGADM, no matter what happens the journey was worth it!

“Not a lone battle”

“An area of conflict that takes place in a certain and more then likely a place of great importance, such as a capital or a monument, during a war, in which the extreme discord here is where you are not by yourself, but rather surrounded by a form of peers such as soldiers or scouts.”