IJBM: videogames play fast and loose with musical form terms

glennmagusharvey

Aria of Sorrow contains no arias
Symphony of the Night and Stickerbrush Symphony aren't symphonies
Funky's Fugue isn't a fugue
you don't even repeat levels in Rondo of Blood
Treetop Rock is hardly rock and K. Rool's Cacophony os rather consonant

to its credit, Harmpny of Dissonance does contain many dissonant harmonies (but it is certainly not a (White Night) Concerto)

glennmagusharvey

fwiw yes i admit that this is a petty complaint but that's why it's an IJBM thread :P

Stormtroper

IJBM: The flute in A Link to the Past is not a flute.

glennmagusharvey

Stormtroper wrote: »

IJBM: The flute in A Link to the Past is not a flute.

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Flute
Apparently it's called an ocarina in the Japanese version.

I guess the localizers were afraid it'd be too exotic.

Then Ocarina of Time was released and kids everywhere were shocked when they got round flattened-spherical brown things instead of ellipsoid blue things when they bought ocarinas for fun.

Stormtroper

Huh, for some reason I thought it was called a flute in the Japanese version too.

blue things

That's what they get for forgetting about the Fairy Ocarina.

glennmagusharvey

Stormtroper wrote: »

Huh, for some reason I thought it was called a flute in the Japanese version too.

blue things

That's what they get for forgetting about the Fairy Ocarina.

I actually bought one, years ago, without knowing about OoT, and it has this shape:

Bluesy_Cowgirl

My sister has an ocarina that actually is blue and resembles the one from OoT.

meanwhile

glennmagusharvey wrote: »

you don't even repeat levels in Rondo of Blood

thank heavens

Naas_Human

but do you spin

Bluesy_Cowgirl

if you want