Much like Music March of last month, I'm getting nothing done. Unlike last month, I actually have been working since the beginning of the month. I thought it'd be fun to draw a large picture of a bunch of League of Legends characters reflecting my friends and myself within as a warm-up for the month. What was supposed to be a small project has turned into a 3 week long task I have yet to finish. It's turning out pretty good, but it wasn't the objective I had in mind this month. I'm hoping to finish it up today and move onto other projects, mainly cover art for the music I need to upload for my portfolio. It's been a peaceful month for me otherwise. Sadly, it hasn't been for those at the Boston Marathon and those relating or knowing those who were there. In short, there was a bombing attack at a marathon where 3 fatalities and over 100 injuries were done. The police officials said they got a suspect in custody, but it really shocked many people to see how young the suspect was. It's frightening.
I haven't been completing as many games as I thought I would this month. I'm at 37 right now, but I'm hoping to reach 40 by the end of the month. I have a few arcade-like games that I could probably finish up. I've been playing a bit more League of Legends again this month as more of my friends are on it this month. If not, I'm still playing DotA 2. Seeing my games pile up, I'm thinking of having May a month of working on submitting job applications and building my portfolio while June will be spent working through some of those games to shorten the list a bit. I've gotten into a Rogue-Like RPG called Eternal League of Nefia (Elona) by recommendation from a friend. I've known about the game for years, but never really tried it out. There's a chance I might have played it before, but don't remember and I probably didn't know what to do. In any case, I had a bit of help going through some parts of the game from my friend and I got hooked.
In Elona, there's a lot of customization for your character. Lots of random encounters happen throughout playing that favor the player or screw them over. Certain dungeons randomly generate each time you go in while other randomly generate once per character. It's difficult to describe what makes Rogue-likes fun, and they usually look boring in gameplay videos. I actually didn't like Rogue-likes too much in the beginning, but once I started to understand how they worked, it got a lot more entertaining. Rogue-likes are rarely made in main-stream gaming, but a lot of indie games seem to fall back on the mechanics of Rogue-likes lately. One Rogue-like that's coming to consoles is The Guided Fate Paradox for the PS3; I'm looking forward to that game. I don't really have that much to report in terms of games other than that I've been playing Elona. I highly doubt I'll finish the game and will probably resort to cheating to complete it. But for now, I'm just enjoying the game as it is and experiencing the open-world gameplay as much as I can before I do so.
I've actually been music hunting this month and have found a lot of videogame music that I like. I played some of my fighting games last Sunday and realized that new characters were unlocked on Tekken Tag Tournament 2 on its own. I also remembered that I like the music in the game and decided to find and listen to them. A friend of mine was talking about the special arranged tracks that came with the limited edition of Zone of the Enders HD pack and how he hated how all the songs from the game were "Dubstep-ified". I was curious so I went onto Youtube to listen to some of them to compare to the originals. Sadly for him, I really liked the remix for Beyond the Bounds. It holds the essence of the original song, has a lot of energy, and accentuates all the right parts for a dramatic effect.
The other tracks were okay, some were pretty good, while a few really were terrible. This one just stood out so much though. It's an amazing remix. Oh, I forgot to mention that Dynasty Warriors 8 is coming out this July. It made me really excited and a bit worried. DW7 was absolutely phenomenal within the DW series, so I'm not sure if DW8 will live up to it. It seems that a lot of other artists helped with the music, which worries me a bit as well. The only other DW I know that MASA had other contributing artists work on the music was DW6, which wasn't as great. The music for DW7 was amazing as well, so high expectations are made. I'll be giving the soundtrack to DW8 a listen and see for myself, but I won't be able to play the game until July (I'm probably getting it first day). I guess there isn't much else to update this month. I didn't watch a single episode of Sword Art Online or any other animé either. I'm hoping to get more art and music projects done in the following month.
No comments:
Post a Comment