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1) If I valued wisdom in the slightest, I would not be holding this apple right now. Sorry, Neshthena.

2) Kinging is cool. So, maybe Herasoron.

3) Scaphrodite is definitely hot. Can't argue with the logic there.

Final decision: If Scaphrodite can throw in Helen of Sparta, we've got a deal. I mean, pissing off the Spartans has never gone wrong, and that chick has serious resting boat-face.

-Paris

Okay, the navigational mishap made me smile. ^_^

I'm constantly appreciative of the details from PPC history you bring into this story. NASTY may only be a footnote to the tale, but they're something that Corolla should have turned up, so I'm pleased that she did.

Some of the emotions in the latter half of this chapter don't ring quite true with me, but partly that could simply be that I don't know the canon characters. Sergio comes across as more believable than them, so I'm inclined to go with that explanation.

Favourite line: [Couldn’t someone have taken her rifle and copied her handwriting?] Corolla wondered. Sensible!Corolla is best Corolla.

hS

'S'why it bugged me when that Playstation All-Stars fighting game came out and there was no Spyro or Crash as playable characters. I mean, that is some BS right there. And they would've been very easy to do! =]

Those games are some of the few I've actually played through, and the soundtrack is a big part of the reason. If I can't stand how a game sounds, I'm not gonna stick to it, so a soundtrack can make or break it for me. Just about every sound in the Spyro games is charming and easy on the ears—very well designed, in my uneducated opinion. I enjoyed listening to it for hours. {= )

Listening to that track by itself, it reminds me of a CD my brother picked up featuring taiko drums. (Here's an example of just drums.) And then they weave the typical Spyro electronic-ish stuff back in. Pretty cool.

But, that's also part of why I got into Skyrim. The soundtrack, the scenery, and really everything about it is just gorgeous.

~Neshomeh

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee to go with the rest, and a welcome.

Posted it on Blank Sprite 15. To people here, read the story, it's so worth it.

Goodbye again, I guess, and thanks for the help on that one Madoka trollfic i missionned...

It is a very cool game. I wish the presentation had been more polished, but it was memorable nonetheless.

Unfortunately, the Clock Tower boss fight doesn't have much set-up as a character in its own regard. (It is a building, after all. It couldn't really be present anywhere but that room where Mickey fights it.) There's a comment a little before that battle that one of the villains has made it go mad, and afterwards, it has its one line of dialogue apologizing for not acting itself. So I guess you could say the "evil-sounding stuff" represents the madness, while the more normal "Small World" notes are the . . . more normal personality?

Incidentally, the level that features the Clock Tower as the boss at the end has a normal battle theme that also has "It's a Small World" incorporated into it, as well as clock-based sound effects. It's subtle, but noticeable if you pay attention. It's also my favorite track out of the whole game. Give a listen? There's a subtle tune of "Small World" at 0:04, a slow, baritone version at 0:14, and a stronger, dramatic version at 0:39.

—doctorlit should maybe get around to playing the sequel he's had sitting on the shelf for literally years, yeah?

Stuart Copeland (the drummer from The Police) did the soundtrack to the Spyro The Dragon PS1 games - aka. The Good Spyro Games. One of my favourite tracks in the whole series is Fireworks Factory, which really sells the level's themes of rocket ninjas without resorting to tired Orientalist leitmotifs. Check it out here:-

Fireworks Factory (Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon)

I'm really looking forward to the Spyro: Reignited trilogy, whenever that comes out, purely because of the music.

Speaking of remasters, the N. Sane Trilogy had some fantastic music of its own that updated the tracks (which were done by one of the blokes from Devo). This, ICYMI, was the Crash Bandicoot original trilogy remaster from last summer that I drooled over. There's some pretty nice music in there, and one of my favourites is the updated Hang Eight theme, with its jungle surf theme. Another choice track from the N. Sane Trilogy is the updated Road Crash theme, which has a brilliant '50s vibe.

Hang Eight/Air Crash/Plant Food (Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, N. Sane Trilogy)
Hog Ride/Road Crash/Orange Asphalt/Area 51 (Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, N. Sane Trilogy)

Hope those are interesting.

. . . so when I'm playing a game, I tend to subconsciously memorize the background music. It definitely makes the music a big part of the play experience for me!

—doctorlit

"Anomalies: Short Stories" by Scapegrace.

Because I just spent half an hour trying to search this post up before resorting to literally trawling the Board page by page.

(This post made 2022/06/21 but timestamp tweaked; happy solstice!)

hS

Have a laspistol and a half-kilo of lembas bread.

That one has It's A Small World hidden in it. I can particularly note how towards the end of the loop, the evil-sounding stuff (key: A minor) that's layered under the sweet innocent bits (key: A Major) switches to A Major as well, kinda suggesting something heroic or hopeful amidst that corruption. I don't know what happens before and after that fight, but if I were to be given context, I'd probably be able to analyze it further.

Epic Mickey seems like a pretty cool game.

-Twistey

FREAKIN' BUY SOME AND REPAINT THEM! I WANT TO SEE IT! DO IT! YES!

Hehe, anyway... I love the villain designs. I actually like all the designs, but obviously a Mary Sue can be a Mary Sue and still have a good design. But I still love the designs. (I do character design stuff a lot, so that's usually what I notice first.)

I dunno, but I have a particular sweet spot for Ragana because I've seen her before in a LEGO catalog and I at the time had a villain role for myself in one story where the outfit I had had was very similar to hers, even the same black-and-green color scheme and with my old Scratch avatar's orange (which is close to pink) hair. So yeah, when you posted this, I still had a little lingering feeling of "mine" over her.

Cronan is cool, typical warlord fare with an interesting... eye motif? That's not a path most would take, so props to Lego. Noctura is great with... is one sleeve longer or are her arms being consumed by darkness? I hope it's the latter because that's cool. I love her haircut and expression and tiara and oh my God everything is so pretty. Looking at the pages, I don't know about all the CAFs and minor critters, they're just kinda cookie cutter, but the designs of the Elves are rather aesthetically pleasing. Except Skyra... I can't tell what she is, but if she were drawn for me and explained, that might satisfy me. Oh that's a cape thingy, okay. Now I like the design.

Now the real exception is the two humans. They're also very cookie cutter, which I guess combined with Emily's description means they Could Be Anyone. They could be you. They could be me. Most importantly, they could be the viewers. So yeah, typical audience insert protagonists.

TL:DR: Love the Elf designs. Everything else is pretty cookie cutter, but the Elf designs blow me away. Also, Ragana is sooooooorta mine-ish. Sorta.

-Twistey

It's why there's devices like the Fictionary, in-universe; even when a fic is the right division for an agent pair, that doesn't mean they have the canon knowledge! Or need to have it, as long as the mission writer is willing to do the research.

I've seen people do post-mission A/N summaries of what's wrong about a given fic's plot-points, as well (an example off the top of my head would be SkarmorySilver, as well as Herr Wozzek's missions).

Would it help if one of the agents was slightly less familiar with the canon so the other might have to explain more obscure details? Or another solution would be to create a sort of appendix providing a short 2 sentence summary for specific terms that people may not be familiar with. It usually doesn't detract from the mission reading experience if I'm not a fan of the canon so long as I get informed in some way of why it is a charge.

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

I found it on the Internet.
I haven't read the original series yet, but I'd like to.
I enjoy Star Trek, Star Wars, The Addams Family, Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley and many Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks movies. I also enjoy a great many kids' shows like Rugrats, Arthur, Martha Speaks, Sesame Street etc.
I also like the Harry Potter books and there's this one kid series I like, which is about a cat called Mog.