Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Castlevania music

Last week we followed the current trend and played 2 weeks of new DLC ("CCR" and "The Vines" weeks). We gained 22M points (1281M to 1303M), which will help us move up the "All Songs" Leaderboards.

One interesting music section was the intro and outro of new DLC "Future Perfect Tense" by "Sweet Billy Pilgrim". It sounded a bit like some old school Castlevania music. But I have to say that the best Castlevania-like music sequence I've ever heard has to be in "Fatal Tragedy" by Dream Theater (starting at the 4:12 mark). The same theme is repeated slower later on the amazing "Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory" album. That album would be really fun as the 1st RB3 full album DLC! We saw Dream Theater play "Home" in Ottawa a few weeks ago and it was epic. I can just imagine what some of the solos would look like on Pro instruments... :)

Highlights:
- Stars breakdown for the 28 songs: Gold stars (7), 5 stars (17), 4 stars (4, for "Trippolette", "1348", "Henchmen Ride" and "So Says I")
- Phoenix and Raikan tied for the most songs as "Top Performer" (14 each), followed by Bongoo (12)
- Bongoo was the "Worst Performer" for the most songs (26), followed by Phoenix (3) and Raikan (2)
- Raikan had the most FCs (4), followed by Phoenix and Bongoo (1 each)
- Raikan's funniest wah-wah bass moment was during "Run Through the Jungle"
- The toughest song for Bongoo to sightread voxtar was "Henchmen Ride"
- Phoenix does an amazing job playing "Henchmen Ride" on Expert drums, allowing us to get 4 stars

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