I know that I will comment on an OST when I start thinking "there's no way this peep started to compose this before the time limit!". Assuming that you did - this is not an OST for a jam, this feels like a finished work for a fully fleshed out game.
Centipede Caverns is a song that carries so much personality, you almost didn't need to title it. I personally love clunky instruments with texture. Using them takes skill and patience since they are full of detail, but you created a theme with them that feels whole and precise, like the dancing notes take breaks to allow the player to slash enemies in a lonely and dangerous environment.
Evergreen Valley is such a living tune. The composition, the marimba protagonist, the sickly wailing background synth, it is excellent. I like how the tune starts sad but shifts to playfully ominous. It has all the traits of a true theme.
I personally wish the rest of the OST would have had more of oddly sounding instruments like the two tracks I liked, but if I were a judge, those two tracks would be finalists.
This is the first work I ran into in the jam that I wanted to comment on.
I feel that, above all else, a soundtrack's job is to be memorable and decorate the game/movie with a whole new emotion or impression. I feel that's what some of the tracks on this set achieved. I would be so glad to open up a game and hear this music in it, I'd know that I'm in for a higher quality adventure.
I almost refuse to believe that you guys got all this done within the limited time!
While all the tracks spoke volumes of the competence behind the artists regarding consistency, composition, and even mastering (my sweet god, someday I'll master a song properly), Scot Hsu in particular seemingly composed all the tracks that called my attention, my favorite being Bubble Waltz, a song that will transport anyone back to Onett and Snowdin. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's a piece that would have fit well into the soundtracks for Earthbound or Undertale. Of all the tracks I've listen to so far, I will not forget that one.
