Two cinnamon rolls for lunch after I get home from school, then coffee and a Cadbury Creme Egg afterwards for dessert. I love Easter.
Anyway, if you haven't noticed, I'm doing something special in the Sound Test section of my page. Its origin can be traced back to Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, while I was doing my algebra homework. I normally listen to music while doing math work, but this time I decided to pull up the full Skies of Arcadia OST playlist in Winamp. It's not often I listen through a whole OST in one sitting, but even after I finished my homework, I had to keep listening through to the end.
It seems like every time I listen through the entire Skies of Arcadia OST, I reaffirm my liking of the game's music as a whole, as well as find new love for individual tracks that I may have somewhat overlooked. Most of the time when listening to music, I'll go through and pick out a few tracks to listen to, then move on to music from another game or whatnot. And while that's nice ... listening to the whole OST gives me the full experience, I guess you could say, and helps me to better appreciate a game's music.
So I really enjoyed that experience -- so much so that I wanted to share it. And that's what I'm trying to do with this little feature in the Sound Test. Obviously I'm not going to put up the whole 67 track OST, but I thought that choosing nine of my favorite songs (nine because that's how many fit in Flam Player's playlist area without scrolling, and it's close to ten) and putting them up for people to listen to would be good. They aren't necessarily my nine favorite songs -- it's so hard to choose! -- and I just tried to put them in an order than would flow well from one to the next, but I think they'll provide a good taste of the game's music. Hopefully I'll manage to put one up every day or so, with corrosponding comments on what I think about each song.
So enjoy. And, if you like, post some of your own comments about the songs (or just the feature itself) on whatever happens to be the latest blog post at the time. If this goes over well, I might like to do similar things with other soundtracks.
In other random news, I finally finished watching the Rurouni Kenshin TV series last night. And after all 95 episodes ... I guess I'd call the series "okay." The character introduction phase was decent, though it was kind of repetitive at times. And the Shishio story was really good -- definitely the best part of the series. But the rest was just sort of "eh." None of the other stories came even close to being as good, and some parts were just straight out boring. Anb then the ending annoyed me. I mean really, it seemed like half of the last episode was just filler, there for no other purpose than to take up time, when there could've been so much more. I doubt I'll ever go back and watch it again, but I am going to watch the OAVs next, which, from what I've heard, are better than the series.
I also started playing through Zelda: The Minish Cap again. I took it with me to school in my DS, along with the Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt demo and ended up beating the first two dungeons and infusing the White Sword with the first two elements by the time I got home. (Metroid never managed to steal any play time away from Zelda, heh.) This time, though, I'm going to make sure not to miss the Light Arrow sidequest. Until I get through the game with everything done, I won't feel like I've really beaten it.
