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Random Musings – Summer Gaming and Music Edition

Some random thoughts in my head for this first day of August:

  • GameFAQs‘ Best. Series. Ever. contest ends today. This final match is the FInal Fantasy series vs. The Legend of Zelda series, and so far the voting has been really close. I admit that I have a vested interest in seeing Final Fantasy win (the bracket I filled out in the spring is doing very well, but hinges on FF winning), so Please go vote for Final Fantasy! 🙂
  • I’ve been listening to Five for Fighting’s “The Riddle” lately. I absolutely LOVE the lyrics to this song. You can watch the music video on YouTube (or if you’re anal like me and just want a good sound quality version, you can listen to and not watch the Sailor Moon AMV that uses the song lol).
  • I’m almost done playing Xenosaga III. The story is really good this time around, and there are tons of cutscenes. It’s very much the final episode of the series in the tying-up-storylines sense. I’m in the final chapter right now, having played about 40 hours (and done pretty much all of the extra bosses and minigames), and probably have another 5 or so more hours to until the end. Obviously not nearly the length of Final Fantasy XII, but that’s a game in a different class. On that note though, I still haven’t finished playing FFXII (there’s just way too much I still have left to do in that game).
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    BENNIE K with Alpha – DISCO Senpai

    BENNIE K is probably my favorite Japanese music group. For those of you who have never heard of them, the group consists of a singer named YUKI and a rapper named CICO (You can find out more here). I listen to their music all the time, especially when I’m driving, so I’ve been wanting to talk about them on this blog for a while now. Unfortunately they haven’t put out anything recently I could review. That is until now. Their mini-album due to be released August 2nd is called 「ザ・ベニーケー・ショウ ~on the floor 編~」 (The BENNIE K Show ~on the floor hen~) and features five collaborative works. 「DISCO先輩」 (DISCO Senpai) is the first of these with the group Alpha.