HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

If a long-irrelevant attention whore was our greatest citizen, then I'm moving to Mexico.

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@Housekeeping - I was sorta kidding a little bit (I do think my mixing sucks tho) but Reason users are kinda rare around the RM community compared to folk who use FL Studio. I do have some meager bits and pieces up at http://www.soundcloud.com/draggingthemoon though, feel free to comment.

Your stuff generally does a good job of setting up an atmosphere, which is definitely a good method for writing background music. Personally, I'd try to vary the instrumentation and play with rhythm a bit more, but that might get in the way of your atmosphere. Your unfinished battle theme was the most interesting track to listen to since it plays with a few more elements.

I think Distressed Signals could be really cool if you played with the rhythm of the little fwip sound that repeats through the entire song, maybe even using it to distinguish sections. I always appreciate changes when they occur in minimalist stuff because your ear gets so accustomed to the pattern (or similar patterns) that when a more dramatic change occurs it kind of snaps you out of a trance. I wouldn't recommend doing that to many of your songs, but Distressed Signals might benefit from that if you ever return to it. Whenever I hear one song repeat over the course of a song, it kind of needles me. I used to like Electricity by OMD until my ear started fixating on the little air compressor sound that repeats through the whole song, and now all I can hear when I listen to it is fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh.

Yeah; the little morals aren't the focal point of the game, so it seemed more natural for the characters to talk about them rather than ending the conversation early for the sake of player reflection. The character reactions were used for characterization, which was the important thing for those early events--seeing how Cyril, Ivy, and Mint react to them rather than leaving the player to react to issues that, to me, had pretty cut-and-dry morals (there were complexities, but not enough to not see the clearer good and bad), which wouldn't have been that interesting by themselves. For the important plot moments that actually dealt with complex issues--the desert, the event that happens after the Flying Mountain, the ending, etc.--I didn't have characters dwell on the events and left it up to the imagery and player interpretation.

I'm just happy that is was a positive review, though! I'm especially happy that the characterization was viewed as a positive thing, even if the early delivery didn't work for her.

Yeah, that's why I put the vendor who can sell anti-sleep rings outside of the mines--if you don't happen to have any status prevention gear, you can buy them from him.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I'm going to move that guy to a more obvious location for the next update.

Oh, I was making a joke--I thought you were named after Golbez from Final Fantasy 2/4, who teams up with FuSoYa at one point and they cast W. Meteo, haha.

Hmm...Do you have robes and other spirit-boosting gear on Mint? Those affect how much you heal. Too, if you haven't gotten them, there's a good staff and bow in that little "climb the mountain" puzzle. I just tried this fight with the gear you can buy in Eulalia and no accessories and beat it on my first try. The only change I made to the strategy I gave you was that I used Leif as an item slave through most of the fight. I still buffed Ivy's strength with him on the first turn, but after that he tended to be more useful for using high tonics and free death passes. Also, I used phantom storm with Cyril and wide swing with Ivy, just to be clear.