Oh man.  Did you know I still have this?

Is my life happy?  If not, I find plenty of things to gripe about on LJ.  If so, my LJ gets neglected.  You can guess which has happened from the fact that I haven't posted since December 23.  My girlfriend and I just passed the 2-month mark, and we're both very happy. ^^  So there!

Actually, a much better game than the SNES version, in some ways.  The music, for one, is actually much better.  There are a few annoying things about it -- several of the stages actually have silence for a while, between loops of the music.  Some levels that are both over water and under water have music underwater but not above, which is pretty ( Read more... )

Sucks.  Heh.  The backgrounds are beautiful -- that's about the best that can be said for this game.  The music sucks (sorry, Eveline Novakovic née Fischer) and the level design is, well, not that amazing.  I've complained before about how almost every level in this game has a gimmick rather than a theme, and I won't rehash that now.  But this time ( Read more... )

Are you in a level where, on some parts, left and right are reversed, but not others?

Just put a mirror next to your screen and play off of that.  Frustration SOLVED!

Man, every time I play through Donkey Kong Country games I have new things to say about them.  This time, I played the GBA remakes (I will start on DKC3 for GBA soon; that one's supposed to be a much bigger overhaul).  I read the Wikipedia entry about the music of the series, and some random reviewer was quoted reviewing the soundtrack of the ( Read more... )

Oh, David Wise, I love your music.  But I'm not sure whether to love this or hate this: Haunted Hall, from Donkey Kong Country 2.  Listen to it and tell me if you note anything somewhat familiar, and I don't mean the Bond chords.  (This track plays during the haunted house mine cart level, which is a haunted house featuring ghosts and a skull car ( Read more... )

You know the DK Island Swing, from Donkey Kong Country?  This ( Read more... )

Life Is Good!  ^^  Happy chanukah, all!  I am now In A Relationship with the most wonderful person ever (no offense, rest of world)!  Yesh lanu simchah! (:

http://web.mit.edu/braunst/www/other.html
It's movement XII of A Day At The Fair, the first thing on the page.

It's a two-minute piece for solo (synthesized) flute, in the style of a slow Jewish prayer.  It's pretty; give it a listen!