It was pretty good. Not the most skilled orator I've ever heard, but you do a good job of filling nearly four hours with interesting (if unrelated) stuff. No huge gaps where you forget that there's a commentary.
Good recording quality. Usually when it gets below 64kb/s, the volume is a lot lower than the rest of the stuff in my playlist, which is annoying. I think the mathematics of sound compression would make anything lower than 24kb/s a bad size/quality tradeoff.
Some things I liked include the info on Poo's equipment and the random signposts and NPC comments. I had actually forgotten that it's possible to talk to non-quest related NPCs. Lots of cool info about the stuff that was skipped and could be improved.
I think the bit with Ness' dad was a bit of social satire on absentee fathers in western countries.
I may be reading too much into it, but the girl in the Stoic Club talking about her superego and all that- I think that's an attack on western philosophy. I've met a lot of eastern-inclined thinkers, Buddhists and Hinduists and the like, and they really seem to hate anything that came out of ancient Greece, like Stoicism.
That would mesh fairly well with Itoi's apparent love of the Beatles and probably the 60s in general. Love and peace.
It was a bit surprising not to have heard something about how walking straight against a slanted wall is faster than walking diagonally. That's just something I observed- not sure if it's true or not.
Similarly, it would have been good to point out that Ness walks diagonally to get into doors and tunnels faster than going straight. (Again, my own inference.)
Can't really comment on the music or even the more overt Beatles references therein, but it's an interesting bit of trivia that the Dalaam theme, like most "Asian-sounding" music, uses the pentatonic scale- the black keys on a piano.
Interesting to me, at least.
In the credits, they list "Shigesato OK? Itoi" as a voice sample, which refers to a voice sample saying "OK?". I forget where. The name input screen, maybe? It's probably included in the Mother 2 RSN, if not the game itself.
The "I miss you" sample at the end came up in a
remix someone did of the hotel theme.
Well... a bit late to say this stuff
now. Maybe it's enough of an excuse to do a version 2.0 if Hal and Nitro do another TAS? ;)
Hope to see more commentaries for different games. It
is good company...
