#nostalgasm

Here’s Part Two of the Pokémon First Movie writeup. Approximately 14Mb. 

http://pokemonminami.com/library/pokemonmovie2.pdf

I’m so sure I’ve forgotten so much I had wanted to say but given that the movie wraps up altogether too quickly I ended up doing the same. I was originally going to talk much more about tone and mood and really break those concepts of identity, belonging, destiny, autonomy and other (which are touched upon in the dialogue yet not really in satisfying detail) down… but I think I would just mostly be repeating what I’d already said in the detailed breakdown? In any case the majority of this thing is done :3 I should probably go back and link the Winds of Water to the ending in better detail rather than just referencing it once in a joking manner, too. 

A thing I did like a month or two ago for the Slam Jam music contest on the MSPA forums.

I ended up losing, but hey, at least I had fun.

I call it Nostalgasm. 

Uh, here's my commentary.

When I first heard Nucleose's challenge track, I thought to myself two and a half things. 1) Oh god, why do I have to go up against musical Jesus. 2) I want to make RPG songs now. 2.5) I should do a re-...(mix)  I stopped that thought pretty much immediately. There's no way I was going to be able to remix that to sound better than the original. It's just not a thing that happens. So instead, I just thought of what to do for the next 5 hours. Like, literally. I just laid on my bed and thought "How the hell am I supposed to do this?" But then it came to me. I just jumped out of my bed, got a snack because my hunger was unfathomable at that point, and then ran upstairs to tell my brother my idea before I forgot it. "Bro! I just thought of doing -this-!" "Okay, whatever. Get out of my room." "Thanks for your support, man!" And so, I sat down at my computer, opened up my music programs, and sat there with a smile...Staring blankly at the screen. I then realized the difficulty of making a remix of some of my favorite and most nostalgic songs from RPGs. Before this point, I've really -never- wrote a fully symphonic piece. I didn't know how to start or anything. Most of my music had been shitty techno hip-hop whatever you'd call it. I'd never created any "art" with my music. So, this was the time I was doing quite a bit of firsts. So, yeah. I started the music making, choosing songs that I love and felt nostalgic towards.... And, well. Here's a list of them. If you can name all of them without looking at the list, I will do anything you want for a day.

0:00 - 0:27 Original Piece 0:27 - 1:01 "Doctor" from Homestuck + "Zelda's Lullaby" from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (It was in a thousand other games, but this one was the most notable to me.) 1:01 - 1:45 "Eyes on Me" from Final Fantasy VIII 1:45 - 2:45 "Schala's Theme" from Chrono Trigger 2:45 - 3:47 "An Old Story from Grandma" from Mabinogi 3:47 - 3:39 "Sailing" from Dragon Quest V 3:39 - 6:45 Original Piece + "Overworld" from Terranigma 6:45 - 7:54 Original Piece + "Silver Will" from Eiyu Densetsu VI: Sora no Kiseki 7:54 - 10:00 Original Piece + "Stone Tower" from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask + "Nao Appear" from Mabinogi (At the very end).