Another Off-topic Blog (sorry)

So I've never mentioned this game but Melody's Escape is just... fantastic and I feel like I need to somewhere because it's such a joy for me to play. It's essentially a rhythm game that uses your own music (eg: an itunes library, or any mp3s on your drive) to construct a rhythm based obstacle course for the game's protagonist (Melody) to go through. The game will construct a beat for each obstacle which you press a corresponding key to (WASD or on harder difficulties WASD + Arrow keys) and will construct both the pacing and obstacles to match the speed and intensity of the part of the song that's currently playing.

Overall it's a great game if you're one of those people like me that like to tap along to your songs but want something.. more. Something to make the listening experience more involved and engaging. This has quickly become one of my favorite games just for relaxation. Playing it on some songs just leaves me feeling really zen, I've even used it to just clear my mind before going to sleep. Because of this it's one of the few games where I do like to just take it easy, and I'll usually play on the 2nd lowest difficulty so that while I'm involved, I don't have to pay an intense amount of attention to my actions to hit almost every beat. Just thought I'd share that find with you all :)

One song that I recently found works really well with this game is Blue Lips by Regina Spektor. It's not the type of music I typically listen to, but I really like this song for whatever reason.

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In any case, happy smitin' yo.
~Zilby