Melbu Frahma

Thrilled to see this monster finally finished! Congrats to everyone on it.

I never actually beat FFVI, despite having been steps away in the final dungeon on at least four different playthroughs. Just never quite got around to it.

So, this idea's been bouncing around in my head for a few years now, ever since I found Kate Covington's on YouTube half a decade ago. It's really been crystallizing in my head of late, though, as more and more Remixes featuring female vocalists have been released on the site, and also because of the success of Mirby's Audio Engineering. At first, the idea was more for a mega-collab of female vocalists, a la Fighting for Tomorrow, but as time went on I realized it might make more sense for each vocalist to take a separate theme. Simply put, the idea is this: an album/ep of vocal remixes based around the stories of the female characters of the Final Fantasy series, wherein each song - remixing that character's theme tune - tells the story or feelings of each character within their world, the same as Rose of May does for Beatrix. Not necessarily the female "lead" characters, either; Yuffie, Freya and Edea would make just as interesting sources as Aerith and Garnet. In addition, each remix would seek to utilize a style that makes sense for the character, i. e. no death metal for Eiko or country music for Lightning. Characters who don't have their own themes, such as Agrias, could use a major theme from their game that fits their character well, but ones who do have their own themes - Tifa, Ovelia, Celes, etc - should use that theme as the main source for the remix. In theory, no more than one - or two, at the most - characters from each game should be remixed, and I envisioned the album/ep as being between 6-10 tracks, small on purpose to make it easier to execute and release in a timely manner. And it would be rather cool to see that mega-collab track somehow make its way onto the album, maybe as the finale or something. So why is this here, and not in Recruit/Collab? Quite simply, I don't think I'd have the time to do the project justice as a director, and I'm not sure I have the skills. But my hope is enough people will be interested, and someone comes along who wants to direct it, to see it happen in spite of my lack of talents in that area. Maybe it's just a dumb idea, and no one else'll like it. But I think such a production would be an amazing addition to the site's already impressive catalog of album offerings, and really, I just hope someone does Tifa justice. Anyway. Thanks for your time reading this, whoever bothers to.

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As usual, mv delivers a memorable, beautifully atmospheric track, that is more than capable of drawing a listener in and losing them in the world it creates. Hands-down one of the best tracks off the album, IMHO.

Don't forget this gal. Seriously, she looks like she'll have an interesting moveset. Looking forward to trying her out.

Welcome to the married club, Cyril.

Unless it was supposed to be a Mega Man reference? Cuz, y'know, he's a blue gangster. Or whatever.

I confess, I did not.

This x 1000. Classy.

I am so freakin' excited to hear the music at last.

I've heard he can't even DjP.

Gotta be Streets of Rage 2 for me. Growing up, I really only had one friend until I hit junior high, a guy named Eric. I wasn't allowed anything other than a pc and a Game Boy, but he had a Sega, so when I went over to his house to hang out we'd play Sonic and Streets of Rage 2 a lot, and it was this "holy crap this is awesome" moment for me every time. I don't think we ever made it past the baseball mound section. Anyway, that game has some powerful memories for me. Edit: Favorite Sega remix... probably Halls of Abandonment, without really going through my favorites playlist and checking the ones that are from games I never played to make sure they weren't Sega games. God I love that track.

Today's episode is on the man we all know and love, !

, from VotL, actually led me to OCR. At first, though, I just thought it was a really awesome background piece taken from Advent Children , which I must've watched fifty times over a three month span. About five months after I found that video, though, I got ahold of a copy of Advent Children for the first time and watched it, and realized that the music was nowhere in it. So I went back and found the video, read the description (for the first time) and realized it was for some project I'd never heard of. Went and found VotL, and that led me ~3 months later to OCR.I guess it's not a perfect example, but for about half a year I really thought it must've been either from Advent Children since I hadn't seen it yet, or made specifically for the video. Boy, am I glad I was wrong.

That would be very cool. I think I'd switch to Pokemon Trainer as my main character if that happened.

Transistor's out. Who's playing? I'm going to grab it in a week or two, once we hit a slow period at work, but I'm curious what everyone who's gotten it thinks.

This is excellent news. He's my favorite character to use.

Hope he comes through it all okay. He's one of the most insightful critics we have on videogames, and he's always seemed a pretty good guy.

This is a really good article discussing why the changes have been made by M$ lately.

Wouldn't that be FF8? /bad pun

"Fus Ro Dah" did it for me.

I am so happy to be reading this.

Hell, totally forgot this was scheduled for tomorrow! Looking forward to it.