SoM video review by yours truly

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SoM video review by yours truly

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So I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this or not, but I'm the Editor over at Zelda Universe and besides my usual editing responsibilities, I also do a lot of stuff for their YouTube channel, but I found I wanted to talk about some of my favorite non-Zelda games, so I started a series called "Games Like Zelda" and I finally got to Secret of Mana. I hope I did you proud. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEW5E3oGzII

I'm gonna be doing Final Fantasy Adventure next, I think. :D
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That was pretty cool. I noticed you did your first episode on Lagoon though. Me and that game have a bad history together :P....

Good job though on the video review.
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Hey man, nice videos. I watched both the SoM and FFA ones.

I really enjoyed listening to them, but I think in FFA you should have talked about the story a bit more. Maybe I am just biased though cause I really love that story, haha.

I really liked where you went into the music discussion for Secret of Mana. It's awesome to hear someone who knows that they're talking about analyze the music XD. I was actually listening to Secret of Mana + the other day and realizing I don't know enough about music to really analyze what is going on. I knew you had this "games like zelda" thing going, and I had a little idea I wanted to mention to you, I dunno if it'd work out or anything though.
Anyway, I think it would be cool to see someone commentate different tracks from games and talk about them. I have no idea what could be said, but not knowing much about music I wish I knew more about why certain things just sound awesome. XD


Some constructive criticism:
Editing cuts off your words just baarely sometimes. It's not terribly noticeable but it's there.
At the beginning of the SoM video there were a lot of uhms and such, but as you got into the video that disappeared. I think that will go away as you start doing more videos though, and I think you have good scripts laid out for these.

So, have you ever seen a more adorable cactus? :P
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Good series. Do you know Chronicles of Radia War? Its like nes Zelda, but with multiple characters at once.

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More rpg elements, but if you did Ys this should be fine.
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Wow I've never heard of that game, but those screnshots have me really interested. Gonna have to look into that.

EDIT: and since the move destroyed the picture I uploaded:
Have you ever seen a more adorable cactus?
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Awwwwwwww, your Lil' Cactus! So cute!

Thanks for the kind words and constructive criticism. It's funny that you mention I don't talk about the story... I noticed that myself recently. I basically never talk about the stories of the games, which is weird, because that's a huge part of a game. Odd.

I'll look into that game... but is it only in Japanese? Is there no fan or official translation? I don't play non-English games. :P

Sheexy, that's an interesting idea about reviewing specific songs. I'll think about that one.
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