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Music to Level Up Your Day: Chrono Cross

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I don't know much about musical theory, nor am I a musically inclined person. However, I do love to listen to video game soundtracks. Who doesn't? They can be a powerful listening experience in their own right, or be as evocative as the scores composed for film. Each of these posts will feature music tracks from a single game title, or series/franchise in some rare cases. Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda North American Release Date: August 2000 A teenage boy named Serge discovers an alternate reality in which he died as a child and endeavors to discover the truth of the two worlds divergence. Scars of Time | (Main Theme) On the Beach of Dreams | (Theme) Prisoners of Fate | (Theme) The Girl Who stole The Stars | (Theme) Life ~Distant Promise~ | (Theme) RADICAL DREAMERS | (Theme) Related Music:

Strange Dungeons & Dragons Monsters

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 A list of strange or obscure official Dungeons & Dragons monsters I'd like to see return. Banshrae First introduced in 3.5, the Banshrae is a musical trickster from the Feywild that has been cursed in such a way as to remove its facial features so that it may not play its beloved instruments. However, by pledging themselves to wicked fey lords, the Banshrae have managed to retain some of their musical abilities by using just their minds to play their flutes (which double as blow guns). They can also communicate telepathically. Being unable to eat by traditional means, the Banshrae gain nutrition from resting on unworked earth. Banshrae are spiteful, malicious, smart, and deceptively hard to hit. They can force listeners to sing or go silent, to move every round and fail stealth checks, or to be stricken with fear. Its darts can cause locusts to spring from the target's mouth and follow its orders. The Banshrae can also curse someone to be disliked by all they

Music to Level Up Your Day: Metro

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I don't know much about musical theory, nor am I a musically inclined person. However, I do love to listen to video game soundtracks. Who doesn't? They can be a powerful listening experience in their own right, or be as evocative as the scores composed for film. Each of these posts will feature music tracks from a single game title, or series/franchise in some rare cases.     Composer: Alexei Omelchuk (2033, LL, Exodus), Georgiy Beloglazov (2033) North American Release Date: March 2010 (2033), May 2013 (LL), February 2019 (Exodus) Set in Russia 20 years after a global nuclear holocaust, the games follow Artyom, a man who must save his home station from the dangers lurking within the Metro. These dangers range from surviving human groups (including Nazis) to mutated wildlife and supernatural phenomena. One Step To The Horizon | (Mission Theme) | Metro 2033 Main Theme | (Main Theme) | Metro 2033 Vessel of Sin | (Mission Theme) | Metro: Last Light Mobius | (Menu Th