The Frieza of Game Boys

I'll be not  than happy to take skies of arcades off your hand...but have  no clue where to start in regards to offer price. What do you think is fair?

Already commented on the OSV post, but I am super excited for this project and its success! I loved Emi Evan's voice and inventive language used in Neir, so I can only imagine it being as beautiful in an actual language! Keep us updated here! :D

I can't believe this is how it was done...he looks like he's having the time of his life.


Amazing...





"Hey Kids, you wanna buy drugs?"

Lol, that caterpie.

I beat Nier last week and got the A ending, so now I have to replay it again from the middle to end to get the rest of the endings. Love this game...

Also, playing through Dragon Quest VIII and soon "Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny" that I started last summer (just need to wrap it up and beat it).

That face, lol...

Also...happy dreaming:

Thanks! I just graduated the other day...and have the sunburn on my face to prove it! They made us stand/sit under the sun for over 4-5 hours...it was hot. In other news, I'm going to continue working on sharpening my orchestration skills and orchestrate as much I can. I've already gone through most orchestral instruments, transpositions, textures/timbres and ranges, now it's just continuing listening to orchestral music and the combination of these instruments in practice. My favorite album to listen through is Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, especially that Infernal Dance...so amazing!

I still can't get overthat Paul Eiding (voice actor of Colonel Roy Campbell) did the voice of Gally and the Narrator from this game. Oddly enough, the music from this game is really catchy in my opinion. Even Gally's theme has a Castlevania Symphony of the Night Flavor to it:

Evil Zone - Road for Oneself (Gally "Vanish")

(Also, the only comment on this video is hysterical if you played the game: "Don't run away from this song its a classic")

Here's something different from Evil Zone though...

Cryamore - Climb, Lest I Fall
The nerd in me geeks out when it changes from Orchestral Samples to the 8-bit timbres. An example of this is like how the snare from the first half the piece @0:00-1:16, which then is replaced a noise channel timbre used for the percussion. I live for nuances in music...a great job to Aivi Tran for this! I'm really excited about this game's soundtrack, as it is still in development (the game hasn't been finished yet).

Besides wanting the developers/publishers/whomever to cough up cash for Iwadare to write music for an Orchestra again...

I would not object to another coming-of-age story like the first Grandia. Personally, I would have it where there are two love interestes to chose from, with the option of choosing one of them half way down the road. After choosing, the other choice separates from the group--taking with them one or two of the other party members with them--and the hero is left to their choice and perhaps other party member(s).

Along the way of the journey, perhaps the hero begins to feel second thoughts on their decision, as well as feeling betrayed/uneasy on the speedy departure of not only the other choice, but the party members that accompanied the other love interest as well. Perhaps the hero made the wrong the decision? Every now and then, the player will have the opportunity to shape the hero's thoughts whether they made the right decision or not through choices in dialogue.

About 3/4th into the game, the hero would have the opportunity to bail on their love interest of choice, leaving them and the other party members that stayed with the group/joined along the way. This path, the Indecisive path, would have the player traverse alone for a short bit, until introducing a new love interest character, as well other new/returning party members along the way. This third love interest would act as a replacement for the other two.

From there on, the ending of the game is determined by whichever love interest the player chose, as well how confident the hero made the right decision when picking that love interest.

Of course, the point in all of this is that there were no wrong decisions on any of the choices, only the indecisiveness--or Steadfast Conviction--of the player.

Hrm...this actually deviates from anything Grandia-like. Never mind! I'm keeping this for my own game. :P

Oh, and I would keep Grandia 1's battle system and graphics (by that, I mean an upgraded/better quality cartoon-like images).

Masters in Music (History) Studies. I'm hoping to focus my attention on 20th Century Music and Video Game Music as a secondary study. With the assistance of my professor in an independent study, I've created a class outline for a videogame music class. For the rest of the summer, I plan on filling it with games to talk about each session/week as well polishing it up, so as to have something substantial to my proposal when I want to teach it as a class.

I'm also hoping to submit performance proposals of video game music I arrange/orchestrate for small/big ensemble when I get there. That's why I'm spending this summer continuing my orchestration studies and notating/arranging/orchestrating any game music I can get some sample scores from. The Dragon Quest soundtracks are great, as they are notated as perfectly as I would want to arrange from (I'm really digging "Let's Join" From Dragon Warrior Monsters 1)

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Also, in other news, final grades were sent out....did really well!

I love that you can finally go in more directions than the cardinal direction! This game look's really amazi--What the heck? Is that a predator on the bottom left?

Ah, good ear Ramza! If you are truly interested in Bulgarian choral music, then you may like the soundtrack to Alone in the Dark (2008).

Alone in the dark soundtrack - Who am i? .

The choir responsible for the beautiful, mysteriousness music:
Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir


I picked up their Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares album way back, which I fell entirely in love with. Here are two samples from the soundtrack to get a more filling taste on what the album has to offer:

1. Pilentze Pee
2. Svatba (The Wedding)

As a teaser,

But hey, since we are talking about ethnic music...How about that opening to Suikoden III? While the group (Himekami) who performed/produced it are New Age*  (That's what the wiki says at least). The juxtaposition of the visuals and music give me that ethnic vibe.


* I claim to know nothing about this genre, only what the wiki page tells about it. I'm guessing that New Age is a broad term that can include/synthesize ethnic/folk music with other genres of music. I personally think of Afro Celt Sound System when I hear Himekami's sample tracks on Amazon. If anyone knows about the New Age genre, then by all means, correct me and elaborate (No really, I really like this genre and would like to know more about it).

Never played any games from this series, but I know you folks have taken a liking to the series...so here ya go:

Persona 4 Music

Let me know what you think about this and the actual music...looks really interesting.