![]() While some may find these interludes a tad on the long side, I can't help but marvel at what Tri-Crescendo has done. About two-thirds of the way through the chapter, the game cuts to a series of high-resolution shots of France and other locations important to Chopin and details one particular aspect of his life. The opening chapter, entitled "Raindrops," sets the mood for the game and focuses on Chopin's composition " Raindrops Prelude"-which you may know as the moving piano theme from the recent Halo 3 trailers. As usual, I'll save my full thoughts for the forthcoming review, but one aspect in particular that I'd not seen in any of the pre-release media, impressions, or even during my play-tests at E3 and at PAX was the historic asides.Īt a point during each chapter, the game cuts away from the action to give you a history lesson of sorts about a specific aspect of Chopin's life and a context for many of his different compositions. The game is an imagining of the dream world that Chopin was said to inhabit during his waning time alive. I'd been looking forward for the title for quite a while-perhaps even longer than Blue Dragon-and finally getting to play it has been expectedly satisfying.įor those who don't know, the game revolves around the dream world of dying composer Frédéric Chopin. Over the weekend, I finally made my way to the local Electronics Boutique to pick up a copy of the recently released Namco-Bandai RPG Eternal Sonata.
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