Final Fantasy, without a doubt one of the most famous game franchise, but more than to the game I want to talk about its music and to leave you with a track quite simple in it’s melody but very effective, with the prelude being used in many games of the series. It starts with the harp alone before being joined by the violins and chorus, and to conclude with a majestic trumpet final. A small piece of art.
Today a little piece of classic, with a violin concerto which I really enjoyed, it was composed by Tchaïcovsky, it really requires a very good violonist to play the solo part, which are really amazing, in the way the the violist and orchestra play together mainly in the third and final movement. Start watching at about 3:30 minutes for the musical part.
Mortville Manor is one of the first games I played which was a point & click adventure, with quite amazing features for the time it was released, in 1987 on Amiga and Atari ST. The games was featuring a main character called Jerome Lange, private eye, and just after the opening we were welcome by a digital voice introduction, as yes all the character in games were talking even if it was digitalized imagine what it was to do this with just a little memory and too floppy drive (about 3MB), plus the game had time passing by, and characters were moving from places in the manor. With a very nice ambient and the impact of what you were doing on the character, this was a great adventure game.
After the first anime, this song is probably my first contact with the Japanese language, it is from the anime Vision of Escaflowne which it serves as an intro. I just remember finding the lyrics and really enjoying that song, so that’s an important one.
Well I could not start with one probable cause of my liking for Japan, which started I think as a lot of people with anime, and I guess it is a known one but probably not the usual, while many would probably say those lengthy anime like Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, … mine is definitely Nadia The Secret of Blue Water, maybe because it’s story is part in France and one of the main characters is actually a young French boy, and that the anime is quite based on creation by Jules Verne like 20’000 Leagues under the Sea, or The Black Island. Or maybe because of this adventure mixed with science fiction. That is probably the first anime I had seen, though at that time I probably didn’t knew it was from Japan, with everything changed to French, including the opening.
As the trip closes in quite quickly, I’ve thought that I would share about what I enjoy a little through a series of short articles associated with video in several categories, there will be obviously some linked to Japan and other not. I hope it’ll be fun to read and see, as it will be to do. The categories will be split in 3 categories with Games, Anime, and Music which will be divided in three J-POP, Game Music and Classical. See you tomorrow for the first of 25 videos, with maybe one surprise on the very final day as the 26th video.
Things are starting to get completely ready, I’m now exactly one month away from departure, that’s going to get past like the blink of an eye, with lot of work yet to done, but hopefully the trip is planned completely and I’ve yet to get some Yens to be completely ready, and print out every papers I need for the trip. Well then I’m also preparing something that I will start to post 20 or 15 days before starting the trip. So be back then 😉
The countdown really starts now as gradually it is already still just a little more than a month with 40 days still before my second Japanese trip will begin. So I’m already willing to tell just a bit of the things I have already planned for when I’ll be there. Part of my program consist in going to see Kokia in concert, visit the Ghibli Museum and also visit more Tokyo, and I’ll also be going to the Mount Fuji as well as to the Natural Parc of Nikko. I’ll try like last year to write day to day from Japan, but I can’t guarantee I will do yet. I’ll leave you with one video of Kokia singing which I really enjoy. See you soon.