A complaint
Jan. 10th, 2004 06:51 pmSpecifically a complaint about the music in Mr. Driller. Not that I don't like it; some of it is rather catchy (though some of it is also rather horrible) - but the overall quality of the music is not my complaint here. My complaint is threefold:
1. Half the game's songs are remixes of the game's other songs! Can you say "lazy composer"? If he's going to be that lazy, why'd he bother remixing them at all? (Though admittedly some of them sound rather different from the originals. But some don't, and I'm complaining about those.)
2. OK. This really annoys me. The songs *end*. To compensate for this, they are repeated. Yes, from the beginning. Now, look, songs in a video game, which are supposed to be repeated indefinitely, are supposed to *actually* repeat indefinitely. They're not supposed to have an end in there somewhere, and then start over from the beginning. To make things worse, these ones, instead of having a *real* end, have a fade-out. Now normally fade-outs annoy me because they say the composer was too lazy to give the thing a *real* ending, but in this case they annoy me because they show that it would have taken no effort at all to rewrite the things so they would *actually* repeat indefinitely instead of "ending" by fading out! Of course it's expected that when you make a soundtrack of it, the things will fade out, because you can't have a CD track that repeats indefinitely, but here it fades out *in the actual game*. What the hell?!
3. The composer apparently does not know the meaning of the word "Medley". Track (?) 18 is called "Mr. Driller's Medley". Yet it is *not* a medley of the other songs of the game. Perhaps it is a medley of their remixes, considering how fond the composer seems to be of those. The only thing recognizable in it was that it starts with a part from Mr. Driller's Mix of Georian - and even then a part which you won't *hear* unless you spend way too much time looking at the Result screen, or are like me and listen to every song in the sound test. The only other thing medleyish about it is that it is played during the credits, and there exist other games which actually *do* play medleys during the credits.
I just got this sense of déjà vu (I learned where the accents go! Yay!) when writing the first part of the complaint. I haven't written about that before, have I?
And, on a final, random, note, the American Lung Association has such a great slogan.
-Sniffnoy
ADDENDUM: What the hell am I doing talking about anything music related? Seriously. I have no idea what inspired me to write this entry. Oh, wait, yes I do. A total lack of anything better to do, these annoyances, and the idea that by writing this I might write an entry that was actually coherent.
--
Eat a bucket of tuna-flavored pudding and wash it down with a gallon
of Strawberry Quik.
1. Half the game's songs are remixes of the game's other songs! Can you say "lazy composer"? If he's going to be that lazy, why'd he bother remixing them at all? (Though admittedly some of them sound rather different from the originals. But some don't, and I'm complaining about those.)
2. OK. This really annoys me. The songs *end*. To compensate for this, they are repeated. Yes, from the beginning. Now, look, songs in a video game, which are supposed to be repeated indefinitely, are supposed to *actually* repeat indefinitely. They're not supposed to have an end in there somewhere, and then start over from the beginning. To make things worse, these ones, instead of having a *real* end, have a fade-out. Now normally fade-outs annoy me because they say the composer was too lazy to give the thing a *real* ending, but in this case they annoy me because they show that it would have taken no effort at all to rewrite the things so they would *actually* repeat indefinitely instead of "ending" by fading out! Of course it's expected that when you make a soundtrack of it, the things will fade out, because you can't have a CD track that repeats indefinitely, but here it fades out *in the actual game*. What the hell?!
3. The composer apparently does not know the meaning of the word "Medley". Track (?) 18 is called "Mr. Driller's Medley". Yet it is *not* a medley of the other songs of the game. Perhaps it is a medley of their remixes, considering how fond the composer seems to be of those. The only thing recognizable in it was that it starts with a part from Mr. Driller's Mix of Georian - and even then a part which you won't *hear* unless you spend way too much time looking at the Result screen, or are like me and listen to every song in the sound test. The only other thing medleyish about it is that it is played during the credits, and there exist other games which actually *do* play medleys during the credits.
I just got this sense of déjà vu (I learned where the accents go! Yay!) when writing the first part of the complaint. I haven't written about that before, have I?
And, on a final, random, note, the American Lung Association has such a great slogan.
-Sniffnoy
ADDENDUM: What the hell am I doing talking about anything music related? Seriously. I have no idea what inspired me to write this entry. Oh, wait, yes I do. A total lack of anything better to do, these annoyances, and the idea that by writing this I might write an entry that was actually coherent.
--
Eat a bucket of tuna-flavored pudding and wash it down with a gallon
of Strawberry Quik.
