Kirk Hamilton's saved articles

The best song off any game ! I wanna cry get happy and punch a wall all in the same 2 min span. Read more

amazingly well done, love it. Hope you plan on making more. Read more

I’m pretty sure I once heard from a music director that low light is better for the acoustics. I’m about 50% sure he wasn’t just messing with me. Loved the cover at any rate! Read more

Great job! 👏👍 Read more

Also, Kirk, the entire time this was playing my four year old kept singing “my name is Kirk Hamilton” to the tune of Hamilton intro.
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oh wow dude, that was great. Props! Read more

Great work! Read more

I’m glad to see you do something like this. I remember you mentioned on one splitscreen that you used to play in a band for weddings and stuff and had wondered if you were any good. You are! Read more

Chills, the whole time. This is already the most emotional track in the game, and here you come with this. More, please. Read more

You play like, seven goddamned instruments?

YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE WHAT I IMAGINED OVER YOUR TINY PROFILE PICTURE! (but you look great and your cover is really great) Read more

Excellent. Actually properly excellent. I feel oddly calm now. Read more

Wow, Kirk! I knew you were musically inclined but that was pretty fuckin’ good! Love the variety of instruments. In particular, the lack of some cuts when you switch instruments (or whistle) on the fly.
Be proud!

P.S. Must resist urge to post videos and plug my favorite artists like this..! Read more

Because I am a cultured individual that HAS seen Tremors (and 2, and 3, and the series...), I knew to just throw a bomb out from my bastion on the rock and he’d go for the bomb, swallow it, and then I could detonate it! There was no rain of entrails, but the tactic more or less translated.
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“You ever fight a video game boss where the music is so good, you draw the fight out so you can keep listening?” Read more

I know some of the older Zelda tunes are classics, but it’s just so damn nice to hear it in a full orchestral composition in BotW, rather than the MIDI of yore. The music has truly reached a high point, even if it is often much more subtle than what we’ve gotten in the past. But the light touch of piano as your… Read more

“for starters, the story is good (like, really good?) and once it gets going, it’s hard not to want to know what happens next.” Read more

Counterpoint: The game is more fun without it. Read more

I just started playing HZD last Sunday, and I have been enjoying it immensely.

...my wife often foregoes playing Breath of the Wild because she wants to see what happens next, which is something of a ringing endorsement in and of itself (she’ll probably do her own playthrough, but we enjoy watching each other play… Read more