Pure lovely.

But about the music. That's 'Sakura'. Isn't the tune Japanese and not, in fact, Chinese? Or am I completely mixed up?

So, it loops automatically (and starts overlapping itself very quickly with audio).

Your art seems to be auto-traced photos.
And the only animation I saw was some fading text and a couple very, very, very short tween loops.

I might suggest sir, that if you wanted to honor your idols with an 'ode' you might consider developing a plot, story, or concept beyond a couple random pics.

Right-click, move mouse, right-click again allows cheating. Yup.

BUT.
Way better than most mouse-mazes.

The lines are clean, the moving gates and so-on, and the music are just right up there to set this game apart from all the others. Nicely done!

This is what I'm talkin' 'bout son.

You freaking nailed it.

I like this. I really do.

But your intro builds lots of anticipation which the tune ... doesn't deliver on.

The buildup up to around :40 is *perfect*. The drums hit and your production continues to build... but around :55 seconds and nothing else really happens.

Sure, you've got the piano jam, but the piano is acting like it's background to something that doesn't exist. I would have loved to see another set of badass drums intro somewhere around the 1 minute mark and use more varied piano dynamics (playing louder and softer) and staccato, accented playing to really help carry the rhythm as a piano is a percussive+melodic instrument.

Between a more dynamic piano part and a more varied drum track (instead of just a couple-bar loop throughout the whole thing), this could have easily been a solid-10 and a five-star rating.

7 & 4 from me because the intro was so awesome, the arrangement is nice, and overall production quality doesn't seem to lack. The composition itself scores a little lower in my book, for reasons I mentioned above.

I'd love to see a 'version 2' of this.

You've got a long, long, long "wind-up" there. By the time you get to the "good stuff" the piano progression starts to get old. But the good stuff is good, and the pretty stuff is pretty.

Good job. ;)