音時雨 ~Regentropfen~

♤ Artistically grotesque

Dying over 200 times in PsychoBreak chapter 6 AKUMU, the two-room sequence (and I have fully upgraded flash bolts x 7)...
↑ Who is more miserable than me?
I believe regardless you have a rocket launcher or not, you need some kind of luck and preparation.
Comparing to this, which would take less than 5 minutes in normal condition, none of the so-called "instant death games" are real.
Indeed the longest 5 minutes.
I wished so many times that I'd rather go fighting Laura another 10 times if I don't have to do this.. But God knows whether I'll keep my decision later on! xD;;
Although I died 32 times with chapter 5's Laura.
Well, at least I got it passed.
And perhaps I'll never do it again.
Yet I'm very worrying about the doggy fight which is coming soon. Except the dino-alpha fight, this one was of the top 1 headache for me in past experiences.
Before that, I'm counting on you about the giant twin fight, Joseph!
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My copy of "yorlga II" had just arrived yesterday. Eventually I was able to read its booklet.
Black.
Even more black than its sister.
Not surprising though -- I wasn't even expecting too much at all. That we all know Most of her booklets are in a pure black!!
But the happiest thing has to be that there is furigana!
Otherwise I can't even read all the titles without problem. -- They didn't want you to read it at all, perhaps. I'd say "yorlga II" is the "scariest" now; it beats all Shikata Akiko's "dark side" incantations.
More importantly, it's literally grotesque.
The Noriko style: artistically grotesque.
After a not-so- less-impressive introduction, the military song could be the most normal pick from the whole set. Yet it's has been numbered "zero", which means... past? faded out in history? exiled?... The moon-waiting song is equivalent to "tama no fune" in my opinion, sort of; the ambience is great enough to lead my mind thinking in this way. As for some key words, "moon wax and wane; the last moment; slashed heart; pale death white; interval between sky, earth and the other world"... apparently it's a "talking to the death" song! (I can't help but I'm no literal soul to choose those more fitting words across languages. lol) While the next rock song (can't tell if it's real rock), with more power, it shows a brave soul's bold intention of dying for (forbidden?) love.
Hirota's "mikado" is cool, really.
Starting the exorcising song, the "yorlga-touch" is getting a stronger. What I should point out? The title itself is self explaining. With mixed use of katakana, the song indeed turns into a great dark magic charm -- P.S. This one has the most furigana annotation among all songs. The high tension immediately gets repressed by the following alone-in-the-garden song. "even though I'm here watching for everything, but I'm yet not here as no one sees me." << I'm so familiar with this kind of "Noriko motif" (hyper)! >> "I know who I am." (For some reason, this song and the next are swapped in pages in the booklet.) Then here comes my first-time-listening favourite lantern song~ There is a intensive aura of a ghost parade to me before reading the lyrics. However, as usual, my mind illustration was off a bit lot. You can find all kinds of eerie stuff on the weirdest night market, not only a lantern that shows you the invisible, also mermaid's scales, houou's feather, an automaton girl's heart... Whatever, I'm following my initial imagination to get my draft completed.
Next the canary song is the easiest to follow in terms of the lyrics, like a piece of dark fairytale. Somehow it brings me characters in her "yume kai" story from "yorlga". While the syndrome song is an echo of the final piece of the previous release, still of intensive piles of "negative words". But the penultimate piece, it's exactly "Jack the Ripper" (which reminds me the very beginning of Shadow Hearts)! Finally, the last "meta-ish" song goes out of my type again (because that's a boy instead of a girl? ^^;).
Overall, I like biohazard and Silent Hill, so I'm totally fine with this degree of literal grotesque.
Less favourable than the initial "yorlga" though.
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And a new now-playing (other than Bach's cantata marathon): NieR: Automata OST.
All that I know about this game was a 10 seconds long video, and these 10 seconds made me remembering it. The scene they showed on the home page looks beautiful though. The music so far is good too, every track, instead of being a 1-2 minute short piece, it's rather like an independent instrumental song that lasts 5-6 minutes. -- All good but except the stupid shop song. I just can't endure and hate people singing off key, especially on purpose (looks at Takayama Minami)...
Good game BGM doesn't mean the game would be good (e.g. Final Fantasy XV and Valkyria: Azure Revolution based on amazon reviews), but for a few times I do play games only for the music. I'll see, after finishing PsychoBreak AKUMU and probably BIOHAZARD 5 Pro and 6 No-Hope.. (which would take ages!)