I love this song and so many others Fukuyama Yoshiki did as with the other people who were the fictional Fire Bomber. so much awesomeness and catchiness.

Currently playing this and COD MW2, downloaded off the PS3 the moment I saw it without asking any questions, but I had it downloading for almost 16 hours due to crappy connection and wireless router being as useful as a bum hole on a elbow. This is one of my all time favourite games ever, alongside almost all of the Metal Gear games, Final Fantasy 8 and Final Fantasy 7. Now being in London for uni meant I bought along my PS3 to play games on, though I can’t play PS2 games I can still play PS1 games (beats me, the first generation PS3′s could my one can’t, the asstards- called Sony).

This game is more story line driven rather than you have level-up to get past this, the main theme of the story is about loyalty, finding your loyalty, finding yourself, character development, beautiful cutscenes (for a 10 year old game by the way!) and last but not least the amazing and astounding music scores written by the genius himself, Uematsu Nobuo. He wrote most of the music for the Final Fantasy franchise if not all the music and lets not forget he does all this in MIDI! The story goes where out leading lady Princess Garnet til Alexandros of the Kingdom of Alexandria (bare with me with all this fiction), wanted to run away because of her unhappy and controlled life in the Alexandria Castle. Our hero is one Zidane Tribal who together with his group the infamous band of thieves: Tantalus, was ordered by Regent Cid of Linblum to Kidnap the Princess so he can protect her. 1) Because Cid suspected that Garnet’s mother and the Queen of Alexandria was up to something fishy and 2) Cid is Garnet’s uncle so he cares for her anyway. So the Princess runs in to Zidane as Tantalus flies in to Alexandria to perform a play as a smokescreen to kidnap the Princess who ends up running away with them anyway (!) and uncovers a despicable truth about a man called Kuja who wants to control the world with his weapons and magic, who is ultimately controlling Brahne, Queen of Alexandria. Also along the way each character learns about where they come from and how it plays a part in the bigger story.

The gameplay is just how I always liked my FF’s, yes you have to wait to make a move but thats the great thing about it! You wait till the bar fills up (ATB in FF9) and then select commands to attack enemies, you get to use magic, weapons, and even summons need I mention you get awesome animations when summons come along! Though I feel the summons were a bit played out in FF8 where you wait till the bar fills up, then summon GF, then it has its own bar time bar to deplete and then it does a really long attack animation in which (if you had the ability to add extra power by hitting square repeatedly learned already by your GF) you have a dead arm by the time you’ve only dealt 235 damage to the enemy and you’d do that each time. In FF9 they took that all away, still had the summons albeit a little different in name and form, when you summon each eidolon the first time it will do a longer attack animation but other subsequent usage will only be a shortened version which I think is a big improvement. Not just because it saves time but also an arm.

Need I mention people back then thought Princess Garnet was such a little hottie? ‘HOT DANG! OPEN THAT BRA UP!’ I hear you cry out to the television in one of the cutscenes with her up close?

There is just so much WIN with this game.

I absolutely love this song because a) its sang by a totally hot girl and b) the totally hot girl also has a totally hot voice.

Ok ok.. back on form, this song’s meaning to me, is that she is a relationship with a guy and he is drifting away from her probably in the sense that he doesn’t like her anymore but she is totally in love with this guy who doesn’t love her back anymore in that way and basically she struggling to survive with him. She’s saying everything she can think of to make him stay, like people don’t see it but she can feel there’s something not right and she just wants him.

Oh man this song is just the right type for commercial success! Pianos, Rn’B drums, claps, neo-jazz feeling, wide vocal ranges, the right stuff to make a good song for a chillaxing drive. First thing is vocal, I love how clear she pronounces stuff, and not to mention the crazy power she has in her voice and the way she controls that. The high notes, ohhhh maaannn. Though she does sound a bit Melodyne’d, but all love to play around with a bit of Melodyne! The reverb on her voice sounds very good because it doesn’t sound like she is being drowned in a cave, in my preference I’d use convolution reverb but with it being effected this well its hard to tell, what I can tell is that it was effected after the recording was done rather than being effected on the way in. This song has quite a lot of plosives and the reduction of the has been executed very well to not go past 1kHz so the listener can still recognize the work being pronounced.

Next is he piano, it sounds like a gated normal piano played in high octave minor chords, but then sound fair fake like the Steinway Piano off Logic’s EXS24. Though can be effected to make it sound more natural. Then we have the guitars which is very minimal in this, steel stringed, playing in triplets like the drums which have a very tinny feel so the bass must’ve been rolled off somewhere along the regions of 250Hz and boosted around 1kHz. The drums is a very typical pop/Rn’B feel with a short but rounded  kick, very brush-sounding hi-hats and generic claps from a keyboard thats been effected with what sounds like a few millisecond off-position double track and reverb.  The bass is also very minimalistic where its a stab bass with a whole second long sustain but almost no delay with very fast attack and low release so it just sounds like a quick ping of a rubber band.

Anyway, I rate this song.

LOVE THIS.

Crazy little repetitive song, found on the ‘This Is Dub Step” compilation CD which I got off iTunes it has everything you really want as your Dub step fix for the next 5mins and 49secs. Filtered clarity heaven.