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Depending on the theme, I might do some Majora's Mask coverage for the final round of RPGamer.com's Grand Audition 2009 (which I won the second round). I've been begging to do so for quite some time In the meantime, there's also , which didn't make it past the judges' panel when subbed in 2004, but was still a chilling take on "Final Hours". Probably one of my more favorite mixes from this game.The Joker covered "Deku Palace" for his entry into the RPGamer.com competiton Sonic Revolution back in 2005, titled "Royal Enquiry". As a judge for the aforementioned contest, I saw it as one of the better submissions, but whether you'd appreciate the track or not would depend more on whether you'd understand Joker's melodical style or not. Also, Deku Palace got covered AGAIN for PRC55. Of course, Joker made ANOTHER remix, though in the end, V took the win back then. At least the turnout was very plentiful

The reason why is because most people around here like to act as if Super Mario RPG is the ONLY Mario RPG to pay attention to. Now, I know that's Yoko Shimomura, but sheesh, the game isn't that good at all But I do agree with you that the Paper Mario series needed more love. The Forever Forest theme got some coverage back in PRC101, though like most contests in the fourth season, it didn't gain a lot of attention, or decent entries for that matter (save for Hylian Lemon's bonus entry). So yes, when it comes to anticipating more Paper Mario coverage, welcome to the club

Yep, it happened to me too if I play any one of my games for longer than I should do. The most notable ones that do that to me though are Elite Beat Agents (where I keep seeing circles closing in on me when I close my eyes) and Guitar Hero (where I keep seeing the highway and the note markers moving inside my head almost consistently and I end up suddenly air-playing just to get rid of it).

bLiNd's jumping in? Sweet And Brad, relax; I'm sure he can do something fine for the project. I know he mainly does a lot of high-energy trance but I know he can manage downtempo stuff well. I mean, "Blue Vision" was the first track I heard from him and I really loved the vibes that I managed to get from that, so I think he might go with a similar approach or something. Directing it more to the man himself, welcome to the project

Has anyone claimed Special Stage yet? If not, then count me in. Sonic projects most likely won't be the same without me

Dude, they didn't mention me either, but considering the size of the project, just appreciate the fact that the word has been spread and (if all goes well) you could end up with more groupies. I passed my congrats to Kyle through Googletalk earlier this week, and so I'll acknowledge it here again - big thanks to Nintendo Power

That Japanese blogger guy updated his Tales project feedback again. But from what I got from online translations he didn't have enough energy to cover the lot so he just looked at "Altar Perception" and "Summoning of Spirits". Altar Perception - According to the online machine translations, he liked Injury's vocal part (rare for him to spot it first hand!), thought the track had similar musical links to the SaGa 3 (Final Fantasy Legend 3) score, liked the fusion of ambience and "techno beats" (?) and liked the general atmosphere (the feeling that no sound disturbs another). Summoning of Spirits - The blooger understood that it was mainly piano-based, especially near the beginning. Thus, he seemed equally as surprised to see "Fighting of the Spirit" being taken in a different "fresh" direction. The rest of his blurb seemed hard to pick out stuff, but he found it to be "floaty" and minimalist somehow (in a good way). Eh... Andy Jayne, I think we need your expertise here.

As awesome compositions as they are, I tend to avoid Metal Slug remixes for one reason - PRC63. And it's a story too long to put here. Hence, why somehow I didn't know about that until now. Doh!

And hooray for Protricity's comeback! ...eh, yeah. I don't think most people would acknowledge me saying that... >.> Either way, I pass my congrats to Katie and the team. If you're in the mood for champagne for tonight, I suggest you go for it

Who's OCR's main Japanese translator again? At this rate, Myth might just read that and wonder what *he* did to deserve commentary like that. XD

Well, I don't know how "sorrow" and "patheticness" would somehow link together in Google's machine translation case, but it is a weight off my shoulders, so thanks for that. I wonder when the blogger would tackle the other 2 discs...!

Actually, "Blue Skies Over Guardia" was in 7/8. You're close enough with the under-explored time signatures, though. Well, if it's not my arrangement that's pathetic (note to self: NEVER visit OCR at 7 in the morning!), then what is? And is there anyone here who could figure out what that "HASAMIKON" thing means while they're there? I'm still surprised I figured out the Chrono Trigger romanisation correctly.

That's Google Translator for you, Kyle. The least we could do is figure out what he really meant by shifting some of the lingo around. Still, I DO somehow understand the fact that Gentry sounded as if it got some inspiration from Chrono Trigger's "Guardia Milliennial Fair" (hah, maybe Aleah WAS right with the fairgrounds connection!) but the "pathetic" link makes me feel rather uncomfortable. Then again, if the Japanese "critic" also loved Sir Nuts (nothing wrong with that), I'm assuming he's probably younger than 17, so there we go. Typical sushi-penis power, maybe?

Well, there are cameos to both the opening and ending themes to Door to Phantomile thrown in there, but other than that it was a case of analysing this particular musical style and seeing how Presea's theme would work in a reimagined sort of way. I do get what you mean by the "harshness" though, moreso with the equalisations rather than the patch expression. I'll open up to be guilty for opting for the mid-high range to go against the mid-low frequencies of the piano patch that I used; I think I've known better than to manage that type of approach since. >.> Nevertheless, I do understand where you're coming from in spite of the initial confusion, so thanks for the clarification.

I pass my regards here for the critique, though the unfortunate thing is Dream Traveler was one of my favorite ones to write and I was actually dreading those that might not "get" it. * I actually get bitter when someone ends up looking towards my sample bank at the time of writing, which was in a college music tech lab in early 2006. It's not so much the samples you choose but how you use them, and that so turned out to be the only one that sounded remarkably close to a real string quartet rather than most of the synth ones around. (Note that if I ever brought in my own samples into the lab, I'd get sanctioned for it. >.>) * The reason why it ended up sounding a little more "harsh" in your words by the time the positive second half kicked in was because the attack power of the patch itself completely changed at that point. To make it fit with the tone at that point, I had to reduce the attack power to make sure the energy behind it would work. Otherwise I bet I would have got criticised for doing the complete opposite. * It wasn't so much the production I was concerned about in this track but moreso forging the link between Tales and Klonoa with the writing (the latter being a cosplay that Presea pursues late in the game), especially since the original titles was clearly one of the most beautiful titles I had the priviledge to play back on the PS1. If I had been able to forge the link just right, then that's where I feel I would have succeeded more. (In fact, those disappointed with the track when it got played on VG Frequency #84 prompted me to jump onto standby to do some stuff for the Phantasia side if Kyle wanted me). I know this comment might have come awkwardly bitter, but either way, I'd say thanks for the comment, even though you might not necessarily understand the creative processes behind it. I'm keen to hear what you have to say for the last batch of tracks though.

Oh, while I'm here, the team at This Week In Geek promoted the site and the project in Episode 54 of their podcast - about 31 minutes into the show. So yeah, glad to see they spread the word

See, I TOLD you I could see something in Sylvarant's field music! I pass my congrats to Showroom Dummy as well, and of course to Palpable for his extensive commentary on all tracks

Concerning Tetris Nintendo's A theme, I don't think it would be included since The Nutcracker is too immensely well-known for some of its music included in Tetris games to be applied for OC Remixes. Troika, on the other hand, could have potential due to its obscurity (not to mention it reminded me of the corny funk version I had as a default track on my first yamaha keyboard EVER), though I would have thought it might have had a remix by now unless someone's willing to correct me... >.>

I've only just helped the cause too. $20 for the OCR team

Yeah, I knew that Starla had contributed vocals, but it took at least a couple of listens before the project's release (yay archive leeching) to figure out that they aren't going to be overlayered choir vocals (a la Destiny's works) and more like something as a background accompaniment, as you'd stated. So yeah... call me one of the more alert ones

Thanks for the first CD's writeups, Vinnie. Don't worry about unfamiliarity with the source material, I felt exactly the same way when I passed my feedback on Rise of the Star. To be fair, my current home production setup is still being built upon, so I'll take the tech crits aside regarding the soundbank for Gentry. Still, thanks for the feedback regarding that. If you thought the transition to there from Momentary was good, wait til you reach Disc 4

Aw, god damnit... it HAPPENED without me knowing?! Snaps, you NEED your regular dosage of watermelons. And if you want them so bad, at least don't change times against our knowledge.

The soundtrack rocks, I agree, but I wouldn't call it THAT much of a "great" Crash game if it was somehow revealed to be mostly unfinished for the most part. Still, if a metalhead attempts this, AND gets it on OCR, I'll so EASILY have their babies

Nintendo DS? AND a convenient time for me?! Count me in, Snaps.

Well, since OCR has Cave Story as a game listed (and since that game itself was used for PRC91), I don't see much wrong with homebrew games. As to Prophecy's presence... welcome back