The Thing That Goes Doink

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And now a meme.

Stolen from both earthstar_moon and dqbunny.

1. Think of up to 20 ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.

( See tags for the fandoms. That might help a little. I don't think they're too hard, though. )

It's fun, you know, when you realize something that you love is also connected to something else you love.

Because it's NaNo, WMP shuffle is in over-drive, giving me tunage to crank word counts out to. Because there are over 300 tracks in the Super Smash Bros. Brawl soundtrack, the tracks often show up whenever I hit the shuffle button.

The game itself has a nifty option where you can go in and listen to the tracks you've unlocked and it tells you who arranged it, what game it's from, and so on. Brawl really touted the soundtrack when they were advertising it, boasting some of the biggest names in video game composing as arrangers from some of the memorable tracks from the various games referenced within.

Perhaps the most notable is Nobuo Uematsu, Mister Final Fantasy himself, as the composer and arranger of the main theme for Brawl. Sadly, he only works on the one track. It's a missed moment of awesome in my book, but I'm sure it wasn't easy to get him to do the title track so we'll take what we got and not bitch too much.

The second name that popped out at me was Motoi Sakuraba. Now, I know not everyone on my friends list knows who that is, but about five of you just went, NO WAY! Motoi Sakuraba is probably best know for his work on the various Tales of games, the Golden Sun franchise, as well as doing the soundtrack for Saiyuki. Yes, that Saiyuki. He arranged a couple of different tracks for the Brawl soundtrack (as well as composed a few, lol), though off the top of my head, I couldn't tell you which ones. (A project for another day to figure out which ones he arranged, or, you know, check out the Smash Bros. wikia and check their article on the soundtrack for that information.)

The other name that got me really excited was Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer from Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. This should explain why I was so excited:



Despite Chrono Cross being mixed when it came to gameplay, plot and other factors, there was never any doubt that it has one of the best soundtracks ever.

Anyway, I was impressed with the list of composers that they got to do arrangements on the game, making the Brawl soundtracks absolutely one of the best as far as video games go. By far most video games have to have excellent soundtracks simply because you'll be listening to it over and over and over ad nauseum.

...You know, when I started this I thought I'd have some witty ending to tie it all together.

I don't.

I'm just singing the praises of excellent music. :) That's all.