Hah!
:smug:
I will seriously never understand what's so great about Cosmic Mind, as to me it sounds like the theme to a 90s mecha anime
This. It's kind of plain =/
But it's still music anyway.
*going technical on music*
Someone once told me that Santana was a shit guitarrist because he only used simple techniques a 5-year old is capable of. I just laughed and went to do something else.
You see, music is art, and as such there *are* several devices and techniques, of course, to be used in the process of conveying the emotions the composer wants to pass on, but in the end those are only devices, with no hard science to sustain them.
It's the end result that determines the quality of a work, as in how well those emotions, feelings and ideas are contained in the art piece.
I'm going to (assume games are a form of art, because in my opinion they are, and) take as example GTAIV and um, Portal, or even the Touhou series itself.
Three examples of games that have touched me and left a mark, great works indeed.
The difference is that a
fuckton of people, among programmers, designers, sociologists, dubbers, even radio DJs, was necessary to finish GTAIV as it is, while Portal was developed by just a small team, and as we know the main Touhou games are done by a single man.
What I'm trying to say is it doesn't matter if Septette and the 3rd movement repeat the same 8 notes all the way instead of going super-elaborated, or what not.
They're successful in conquering people's hearts, that's what art is about lol. There's definitely something in Cosmic Mind that doesn't appeal to me but people go crazy over too.
I think I said way more than I intended :derp: