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powygon-uwu · 4 years

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Happy Spirit Phone Day! I’ve decided to rate my top 10 Spirit Phone songs because why not?

10. Soft Fuzzy Man

- I think the parts where more instruments kick in at ~0:35 and you’re blasted with sound are a bit too much and it takes away from the beauty of the song

- Better than I remembered it?

- Honestly don’t know why I don’t listen to this one more

9. Eighth Wonder

- Cryptid!!

- Interesting musical choices

- Somehow seems like a watered-down version of what it could have been?

- Solid chorus though

8. When He Died

- The combo of whimsy and horror really works for me

- There’s a really fleshed out story despite the repetition

7. Redesign Your Logo

- WHY IS THIS SONG SO FUCKING FUNNY?

- Love me some satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- Instrumental sections are really good

6. Lifetime Achievement Award

- Really fun musical variation

- ‘Good luck getting into heaven if you live past 27’ is such a raw line

- I’m not a big fan of the repetitive bit at the end, sound-wise

5. Cabinet Man

- Stellar lyrical plot

- Admittedly not a lot else that’s particularly better than most Lemon Demon songs

4. Angelfire

- Easily the best purely instrumental song on the album

- Reminds me of Happier by Marshmello and Bastille (but released 2 years earlier)

- Idk it just rocks

3. You’re at the Party

- What the fuck is going on?

- Nobody knows

- Somehow both familiar and surreal

- I love how the song makes me feel

- So many unique parts to this song I can’t list them all

2. Ancient Aliens

- I really like the difference between the upbeat off-the-walls sections (think ‘strange things happen’) and the and simpler sections with plot (think ‘I saw you making fire’) and how that transitions between the two

- Some really fun lines and solid melody

- Ending instrumental really works, despite me not liking a similar thing in TTT

1. Touch-Tone Telephone

- Obviously it’s one of the most popular songs on the album

- LOVE the musical motifs and repetition

- The break in the middle is kinda weird, but idk if it’s good or bad weird

- Lots of references!

- I’m not a big fan of the fade-out bit at the end but it does work

Honorable Mentions:

Man-Made Object

Spiral of Ants

Sex Bod by @bluehairedspidey

#i REALLY wish Eighth Wonder was 8th place but i just liked the others more #i am NOT tagging all of these songs individually #Lemon Demon #Spirit Phone #Neil Cicierega #j talks

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sonnenstola · 6 years

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below the cut is my essay of thoughts on sunday’s episode because i don’t want to Spoil anything big for those who haven’t had the chance to watch yet!!

okay, so i want to start by saying that this episode wasn’t as cringe-inducing as i’d feared. because i wasn’t ready for proposal 2.0, honestly. i wouldn’t make it through another public proposal and rejection. i’d be closing shop and skedaddling my way out the door to canon divergency. but the fact that he didn’t outright ask and knew to backtrack ( however poorly ) was enough to keep me rooted in my seat, though i do want to pause and go over the proposal and his intentions real quick.

i would like to remind everyone that eugene died for rapunzel’s freedom. because he loves her and understands how much her freedom means to her and this should be recognized more. yes, it’s his dream to settle down and live a relaxed life with the woman he loves because he’s done the adventure thing as flynn and is ready to close that chapter, but because rapunzel is experiencing it all for the first time he’s willing to journey on beside her. he’s seeing the world fresh, as eugene fitzherbert instead of flynn rider, and he’s finding new things about it through rapunzel’s wonder and enthusiasm for the world!! he appreciates said wonder and enthusiasm!! so can someone please tell me why the assumption is that he expects an immediate wedding post-proposal???

maybe the first time around, sure, but as he admits ( not to rapunzel which i’m still salty about ) it was out of fear that what he had was good and he didn’t want to lose it. this second time they’re out on a mission-- to find out what the black rocks are leading them to and how they can save corona. they’ve been on the road for a week, and he’s planning on proposing again. there’s no way he’s thinking ‘if i propose now and she says yes we’re gonna turn around and have a wedding and just settle down’. he’s not trying to immediately tie her down and throw a big wedding and lead domestic lives at the castle. they were still going to go through with the mission and have the grand adventure that goes along with it! i just don’t understand the train of thought here because eugene fitzherbert cherishes rapunzel and her feelings and dreams and wouldn’t actively try and cut her wings.

that said, i think the ‘people telling eugene the proposal is dumb’ thing got waaay overdone in this episode. we already had him dealing with people giving him a hard time in the season one premiere, it really wasn’t necessary to have so many people continue to harp on the subject this time around, especially not after he did it and clearly didn’t want to talk about it anymore. but honestly, bless cassandra for stepping in and being the one to point out that eugene was clearly not behaving like himself/something wasn’t right. that whole scene showed so much growth and i loved every second of it.

i’d like to point out the eugene and stalyan dynamic now. because hoooo there’s a lot to unpack there. i was right to be wary about her character, because she was manipulative and downright a stereotypical mean girl love rival. the fact that her face kinda looked like jane’s from tarzan threw me for a bit, but i did like some of the material given to her. while it made me want to fight her, i did enjoy the way she refused to call him eugene and stubbornly just called him ‘rider’, as it made the way rapunzel say his name become something emphasized. stalyan’s repetition of ‘we’re meant to be’ and ‘this is how it’s supposed to be’ and stuff along those lines was oddly contrasted by her ( in my eugene-loving opinion ) gut-wrenching ‘do you really think it’s fair to ask a girl who spent the first 18 years of her life in prison to give up her freedom for a lifelong relationship with someone like you?’. it sounds like he’s not worthy of rapunzel, yet stalyan’s fighting tooth and nail to have him for herself. of course this is a manipulation tactic, trying to knock down his esteem and faith in his relationship with rapunzels and its strength, but it just comes off a little backwards. but man, the look on his face when she said that made me want to cry. you can see him doubting for a moment, doubting that he was enough for princess rapunzel of corona.

i want to know exactly what went down between him and stalyan. i want to know why they were going to be married, what the circumstances were, and why it fell apart. he clearly didn’t have any genuine feelings for her based on the way he reacted to seeing her, because there wasn’t any guilt to be found there. if he truly cared about her, he’d have felt some guilt for ditching her at the altar! my assumption ( which may or may not turn into headcanon based on the information the series gives us if it gives us more on that whole shebang ) is that it was a way to get closer to the baron’s wealth, or at least the status of thief flynn was aiming for. he may not have planned to follow through with the wedding, but an engagement was a way to get him into that inner circle. whatever he did to her, whether he used her or not, i still fumed when she smacked him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

also can we address the fact that eugene fitzherbert was willing to give up his dream, everything he had and made for himself, for lance? lance is really the only family he has, the closest thing he’s ever had to it at least, and it makes total sense that eugene would sacrifice all he has to save him. lance didn’t have to stick around, lance didn’t have to make the attempt to stick to the straight path, but he did and eugene is grateful to have such a dear face who knows all sides of him around. the guilt he must have been wracked with that whole time must have been overwhelming, and it shows in the constant concern he shows whenever lance is near. eugene recognizes that this whole ordeal is his fault, and takes responsibility for it too. so rather than let the person most important to him die, eugene is willing to sign himself up for a lifetime of misery, danger, and loneliness ( he’d miss the life and love he had ). the fact that eugene was able to tell lance that he loved him was just. really special to see and it definitely stuck with me.

on a final note because this has run on waaay too long as it is, it’s never really explained why rapunzel wanted to propose. was it guilt? fear? regret?or did she genuinely want to marry him? it’s a very awkward bit of dialogue, him shutting her proposal down and her dealing with it. usually it’s fairly easy to tell how a character feels through expressions/voice inflections/etc, but rapunzel was a hard read in that moment. obviously eugene still wants to get married, and now we’re sort of set up to believe rapunzel does too, but?? she doesn’t fight him on it, insist it’s what she wants, but she doesn’t look relieved to hear he’s compromising either, despite her saying that she was glad they were on the same page. i just. i want to know what her confusion between saying yes or no was, and how she feels about marrying eugene now.

#𝚒 𝚜𝚘𝚋 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚐™ 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 ( ooc )#episode thoughts

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samusgoeszoomzippy · 7 years

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My Thoughts on Metroid: Samus Returns

I’ve now played through the game on normal and hard mode, 100% each time, and I wrote down a lot of random thoughts I had as I played. Even though I have no real need to do so and I doubt anyone will read this, I’ve decided to organize them and toss them into the void of tumblr. This is in no way a review, just a random collection of thoughts. Obviously, major spoiler warning if you haven’t played.

SPOILERS BELOW!!!

Metroids The metroid were done really well, unlike the ones in the original, it’s a lot harder to just missile spam them. And they were a lot more challenging; embarrassingly enough, I actually died to the first Alphas, but that might’ve just been my lack of familiarity with the counter and gameplay over all. The Gammas are pretty fun too, and I thought the whole chasing thing was fun at first, and it didn’t really get old until the second playthrough, at which point it just went to being super annoying bc of its randomness. I like that they had both fire and electric varieties, I wish they would’ve carried that over to the other forms. The ZETAS are amazing, they were my favorite in AM2R and they still are, I really love how reminiscent they are of xenomorphs. And between yanking it off the ceiling, and the super extra counter sequence, it’s such a satisfying fight. And the last one actually really surprised me, I was fully expecting an Alpha, and then suddenly he jumped out of the background and I was SHOOK, I really appreciated it though. The Omegas were good too, but not anything too much more special, although his entrance was amusing to me for some reason, he runs in stomping, then he starts slamming his tail on the ground, he’s just a big ole baby! The melee counter in this fight is a bit too extra though, it was honestly kinda amusing, that slo-mo backflip haha.

Bosses The bosses are my only really complaint that I still have, I really wish there were more early on. But oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They once they had were good enough. I’m glad you could still utilize bombs for the Arachnus fight, but he was still pretty basic, AM2R spoiled me lol, that fight was so amazing. I love the whole build up to the Diggernaut; I got that wonderful metroid feeling of figuring out where to go/what to do, because I didn’t have the grapple beam when I first found him in Area 3, and it took me some time to figure out what to do, but when I did, he SPOOKED me so hard, because I lowkey expected the fight to happen right then and I was NOT ready. And then with the chase, I thankfully hadn’t been spoiled on that, and although I could tell something was coming, I didn’t expect it at all, and it was so exciting. The actual fight wasn’t too bad for me, even though I died a lot because I struggled to dodge his attacks at first. I had already seen to use the spiderball during the fight, so I knew what to do when I first stunned him, but phase 3 had me STUMPED and I got that wonderful satisfaction of finally figuring it out (tip: you can spiderball the floor and be 100% immune to getting sucked up). The Queen fight was great too, I’m so glad they kept the bombig the stomach method (idk why they wouldn’t), and again they’re giving the spiderball more use!!! Unfortunately, I was spoiled on Ridley being in the game, but just his presence. The fight was really hard at first, but it’s actually so easy now if you just use beam burst and spam supers during the melee counters. It wasn’t anything too special in terms of Ridley battles, but I LOVE how my squishy son (or daughter or child or whatever lol) helps so much, he’s such a good baby :’)

Music After my first playthrough, the music was one of my few complaints. I felt like it was too dull and quiet (I still think it’s a bit too quite), but after playing through again, and seeing other people comment on it, I realize that it did a wonderful job of staying faithful to the original’s atmospheric beeps and boops, (just not quite as annoying lol) and I think it was actually a good decision to do that. Area 3’s “outer area” theme is a particular favorite, the steady beat in the background feels very foreboding, plus, you can hear some of those beeps from the original OST. I also really love how the took the final metroid nest theme and slowed it down so much, it’s so creepy and made me so exciting for what I knew was coming. And on that note, the music that plays on the way to the first Omega and the Diggernaut do that really well too. Regardless, I still feel like it could’ve benefited from more upbeat tracks, like the surface remix and area 7. The boss music is also so good, especially the Omega theme, and although it took me a bit, I’ve really come to love the new Queen theme; as much as I would’ve liked to see the original theme, I think this one is better and it does its job really well, plus it isn’t so repetitive. Also, I find it interesting that they remixed Arachnus’s theme for Diggernaut and made Arachnus a new theme, but I’m glad they did bc it was a bit too epic for Arachnus. Lastly, I’m so glad they kept the original title theme, but kinda “hid” it after the iconic metroid title theme, and also how they incorporated it in the credits theme, I felt emotional when that part of the credits theme played lol.

Graphics I know a lot of people are upset that this game was on the 3DS, but I think it still looks so amazing. The backgrounds are beautiful and so detailed, they make rooms look so deep, even without the 3D (which, while I think it definitely enhances that, it not really that crucial of a thing to have). All the random creatures they have in the background is such a nice touch, I just sat there and watched as that giant slug in Area 6 crossed the screen, it was amazing. And just in general, all the areas look so nice, but Area 7 is one that stood out, I was really surprised by how techy everything looked, I wasn’t expecting it, and the music was surprising too!! I had no idea that the music from the first trailer was actually in the game. And then just all the character graphics as well, the enemies look really nice, and Samus looks amazing, I really love the new gravity suit, especially the morph ball, I love just rolling around bc all the lines on it look so nice, plus getting it felt even more refreshing when moving in water than it does in other games, but it’s probably just in my head.

Vs AM2R Long story short, I can’t really rank them. They’re both very different games and each have different strong points and weak points. Samus Returns has better metroid battles, but AM2R has a lot more unique bosses that are fun. AM2R has a lot more fun, “memorable” tunes, but Samus Returns has good music that recreates the atmospheric feel of the original. Basically, I feel like in every way, it could be easily argued that either game has the other beat. (Another random note about the two, I really like that both of them reference Fusion in different ways.)

Other Stuff (Just some other things that I wanna mention that idk where to put) There are a lot of random little things I noticed that I appreciated, like how the morph ball kinda catches on ledges if you turn around as you’re about to fall off, the shattering effect when you melee frozen enemies, the fact that the metroid tanks seen in the chozo memories are still in the background in Area 7, the tornadoes on SR388 as Samus flies away that kinda resemble the metroid nuclei. Something I find funny is how to Autoads are very different in the original/AM2R and in Samus Returns, but in both cases they’re super annoying, just for different reasons. And the new spider bomb thing is so satisfying to just FLY across the room, and the spooky appearance of the 11th chozo memory, it actually freaked me out at first bc it was late and dark when it happened. And then of course the BABY THE BABY THE BABY!!!! I love that he’s in the ship with you once you beat the game, and I even more that you can take him all around the planet and he helps you solve puzzles and sometimes just lets you skip them lol. One last thing I wanna mention is the Scan Pulse; I think it’s a great edition for those who don’t wanna have to bomb every wall to find items, new players, or just players who does care able the exploration as much, etc., but I was determined to get through the game without using it, and I did! I got 100% on two playthrough and I never used it once (except once to test it out, but in an area that was already all filled in). It doesn’t really matter, but it’s something I was proud of, and in the end, Samus Returns was such an amazing experience and I really love this game.

#metroid #metroid Samus Returns #metroid spoilers #sorry for the super long post lol

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