Hello everyone! Firstly, my apologies that this new poll has been such a long time coming. With how large a project the previous arrangement became (and don't fret, I'm still working on the BotW/TotK overture medley as well!), along with joining the Rollin' Rascal team, and dealing with some emer...
2024-03-07 19:57:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Today I'm happy to share the largest, most ambitious video game music arrangement I've made to date: a big medley of classic tunes from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, woven together and orchestrated as though they're a Hollywood score for a blockbuster animated film!
It's ...
2024-02-22 20:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! For the past few months now, I've had the honor of joining the team of the high-speed platformer Rollin' Rascal, to create its music and sound effects! As the Kickstarter campaign for the game begins on February 6th, this week I'd like to share some of the music I've made for it s...
2024-02-04 17:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Today I wanted to illustrate how I created a custom MIDI visualizer for the What I Love video about Pikmin 2's cave music. I could have used an existing MIDI visualizer to create something to look at while I explained how the randomly ordered gestures work, but I wanted to specifi...
2023-12-12 22:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! My next What I Love video is ready for you to see a day early! Pikmin 2 experimented a lot with level design using cave levels that piece together terrain pieces in random orders. But did you know that the music in those caves works the same way? Check out how this amazing MIDI sy...
2023-12-05 21:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 26 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! This is it: the finale! I wrap up the enormous final expedition and the final area, and offer some retrospective thoughts on the completed game. There will still be supplemental episodes coming up where I...
2023-09-21 17:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 25 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! This is the penultimate episode, exploring deeper into the game's final area, taking on the last formidable Dandori challenges and clashes, and completing the final night mission! We're getting very close...
2023-09-19 21:24:42 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 24 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! It's time for another big adventure: three night missions, two exploration days, and one final big new area to explore!
Music used at the dedication at the end is an excerpt from "Concerto pou...
2023-09-15 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 23 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! In a big adventure and Dandori test of an episode, we explore some engaging caves and wrap up all the remaining treasures and tasks in the game's 5th area! But it seems even that's not the end of our adve...
2023-09-13 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 22 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! This is one big marathon of the remaining Dandori trials I unlocked, some of the most difficult multitasking challenges the game has to offer! But the rewards to collect from it are particularly sweet, so...
2023-09-11 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 21 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! Another day in the game's 5th area leads to some lovely new discoveries, it's such a fun area to explore. And then another night mission features an especially foreboding returning enemy... and last but n...
2023-09-09 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 20 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! A big episode in which we're going all in on completing Captain Olimar's side adventure, reveling in all the nostalgic throwbacks, considerable challenges, and alluring rewards this timed mode brings us!<...
2023-09-07 17:35:42 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 19 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! We're now into the post-game of Pikmin 4, but it honestly seems more like the second half of the game than an epilogue: there's so much to do! We check out the game's 5th area, and continue a side adventu...
2023-09-05 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 18 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! This is it: the final push to rescue Captain Olimar, the conclusion of our main mission, and the end credits... but that's hardly the ending! The game then opens up into a sizeable epilogue with all sorts...
2023-09-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 17 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! We're visiting not one but two caves in the game's 4th area, the second of which in particular is a lovely throwback and an interesting challenge! By the end, I redeem my Dandori by getting a pla...
2023-09-01 20:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 16 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! We're now focused on the game's 4th area, from its fascinating and vibrant lighting, to its tougher Dandori challenges, to closing in on Captain Olimar's whereabouts!
Music used at the dedication at...
2023-08-30 17:39:24 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 15 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! Featuring not one but two days for completely clearing up the 3rd area, which still hosts a slew of surprises. But the second day is particularly tranquil, a nice reprieve from the chaotic advent...
2023-08-28 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 14 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! I can't shake my curiosity about the game's 4th area, and it turns out it also features its share of caves—difficult ones with fascinating new gameplay mechanics to add! Between that, a night mission, a...
2023-08-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 13 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! We take a sneak peek at the game's 4th area, then we venture into the deeper waters of the 3rd area... including clashing with a formidable watery foe who makes a harrowing return from Pikmin 2!
The...
2023-08-24 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 12 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! After a crazy last episode and an unfortunate massacre of Pikmin, this episode goes way smoother with a fantastically designed cave and more of this fascinating 3rd area!
Music used at the dedicatio...
2023-08-22 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 11 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! This time, we're venturing into the game's 3rd area, probably my favorite one yet! And I'm pretty sure the cave I enter in the latter half of this episode features the boss everyone has been hoping for me...
2023-08-20 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 10 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! A big episode packed with two full caves, a Dandori challenge, nearly every last item in the game's 2nd area, and a much smoother night mission! There's a lot to see in this one!
Music used...
2023-08-18 18:15:42 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 9 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! It's time to try out some night expeditions, which, surprise surprise, turn out to be a fair shake more difficult than day expeditions! In between them is a more peaceful daytime exploration of the 2nd are...
2023-08-13 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 8 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! In one big episode, I commit my biggest lapse of Dandori so far in finishing up the first area... but then we triumph through our largest cave expedition yet in the second area!
Music used at the ded...
2023-08-11 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 7 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! From here on out, there will be a minor spoiler warning on these videos, because this goes beyond what was available in the demo of Pikmin 4. We head out to explore the new 2nd area, teeming with animal li...
2023-08-09 14:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 6 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! In this episode, we resolve the cliffhanger from last time, and then finish exploring as much of the first area as we can!
2023-08-06 17:42:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 5 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! This episode sees us answering some questions that linger in the Sun-Speckled Terrace, places I had spotted but not yet explored... and just as many questions arise in the process, especially in a big clif...
2023-08-04 18:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 4 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! Day 3 of exploration features a new, more complex cave, yet more discoveries about Pikmin and about the people we're rescuing, and me testing a theory of mine about how the adaptive music works above groun...
2023-08-02 17:06:17 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 3 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! From here on out the game really opens up, and truly becomes the Pikmin game we were waiting for. Also, due to the nature of exploration days and caves, from now on individual episodes will be lon...
2023-07-31 18:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for episode 2 of playing through Pikmin 4, available a day before it goes public! This episode features the game's first cave, first bits of treasure, and the end of Day 1 of exploration. Even still in the tutorial for the game, there's a lot to unpack, especially lots of redesigned cla...
2023-07-29 15:02:21 +0000 UTC View Post