Yeah, I finished TWEwY last night (btw, who decided it was a good idea to vomit a high school math textbook all over the script?). I think the only song I really liked was the one that played over the menu in the last area (I think it played whenever you completed a chapter, too). It was nice and light and a lot slower than the rest of the soundtrack. Other than that, I just had the DS muted almost the entire time.

So, to bring it back around to the original article, I think Ethos needs to play nothing but TWEwY on the go. Problem solved!

Yeah, TWEWY’s OST was also more repetitive than I thought necessary. Even for that dance-esque genre.

TWEWY’s OST is appropriate, but I ultimately see it as kind of mediocre since it tries to go for the same tone as the Persona games, without being anywhere near as catchy. Also it’s extremely repetitive, though a number of people seem to love it on Cat Fancy.

See, what you describe as a bad thing, Darth, I like.

But back to the drawing, I think this one was too good. I’m going to have to be careful that my skills don’t improve.

Hehe, funny you should mention TWEwY, that’s actually the game I played while listening to last week’s MAP. I agree the soundtrack fits the game and all, but it just hasn’t grabbed me and got repetitive pretty quick. The downside of doing that, though, is it almost makes griding too easy. Without realizing it, I overpowered my character for TWEwY and ended up blowing through the next few sections of the game waiting for the enemies to catch up.

Yeah, I listen to music when grinding or when playing a game with repetitive music. I’ve been using podcasts and my own music to get me throw the long (and sometimes) tedious levels of Children of Mana.

Bah-ha ha ha, it sure does, SN.
And I thought TWEWY had an appropriate soundtrack, I just didn’t personally like it.

BTW IMO that baby looks more like Oliver.

An RPG OST would have to be really awful for me not to want to listen to it (TWEWY came close though).

@SN&Darth – Yeah, exactly. I’d listen to music/podcasts for grind heavy games, or even games like The World Ends With You when I wasn’t a fan of the soundtrack. Suikoden is giving me the most trouble with this.

I can totally relate Ethos, there simply is not enough time in the day to do everything you want, and I don’t generally listen to music and play games at the same time either (unless the game is unimportant).

O_O

Seriously, who listens to podcasts!?

*more blank stare*

Actually, I can ALMOST relate to this. I haven’t played S:T, but I haven’t found a portable game yet where the sound was that essential to the game (at least for me). If I did, I could completely relate to this dilemma, since I do listen to a lot of podcasts on the train every day. As it stands, I’ll usually just throw on a podcast (or music or whatever, but mostly podcasts) while playing on the train and mute the sound (this works especially well for any grind-heavy games, since no mater how good a game’s music is, it will pretty much always get repetitive after 20+ hours of play).

When I do find a game I want to listen to as well, I tend to switch things up a bit, listening to podcasts one day then the game the next or something like that, depending on what exactly is going on in the game itself (I’ll usually switch over to the game’s audio for cutscenes regardless).

…right.

*blank stare*