Voices of the Lifestream Review
So after a little over a week, I have gotten a chance to listen to all 4 discs of OCRemix‘s Voices of the Lifestream. Out of the 4 disks made, I found the following 9 songs to be ones that I plan on listening to again:
Disk I:
(5) norg,SnappleMan – Full Frontal Assault
(9) zircon – Nomura Limit
Disk II:
(8) Trenthian – Crystal Sermon (The Prelude)
(11) bLiNd – JENOVA Celestial (J-E-N-O-V-A)
Disk III:
(1) Red Tailed Fox – Suco De Melancia (Costa del Sol)
(6) Red Tailed Fox, Shnabubula – Midnight at Club Corel (Mining Town)
(7) FFmusicDJ Ahead On Our Rave (On Our Way)
(10) bLiNd, Leifo – Fading Entity (Listen to the Cries of the Planet)
Disk IV:
(3) Star Salzman – Airships Make Me Happy (The Highwind Takes to the Skies)
A lot of the songs were pretty good. A few of them, I unfortunately have to admit, I listened to for about 45 seconds and then passed over. But the ones above I found were really superb remixes that could have easily went along side the original score and would have enhanced that incredible game we’ve all come to cherish so much! Although, I did find OCRemix’s Chrono Symphonic better overall then the Voices of the Lifestream compilation, but regardless, the Voices of the Lifestream was still pretty sweet.
In some other related Final Fantasy news, I recently discovered the other day, while talking to Jess – another FF connoisseur 
, that the price of Final Fantasy XII has dropped to a quite affordable $18.99!!
I link you to Deep Discount as I’ve done business with them before. There are of course other vendors also selling the game at competitive prices, but at least with Deep Discount DVD you get free shipping on that title!
If you already own a PS2, then you should DEFINITELY pick up this game as it is well worth $18.99. That really isn’t saying much, but let’s put it like this – I bought the game at launch for over $60.00 and have loved every moment of it!
I recently picked FFXII back up again after an extended break from the game. I am at that point in the game where I only have to finish the last boss and am now able to freely and fully explore the rest of the optional parts of the game. Beating the boss and seeing the ending will be disgustingly easy at this point, but I am trying to hold off on doing that and make a push to fight and hopefully beat the Omega mark. I actually did come across someone who posted a video where he beat Omega Mark with a 122333 save:
[1],[2] and [3]. A ’122333′ save is a save where you go through the entire game without earning any experience (this can be done by equipping a relic that prevents you from earning XP after a given battle). All of your characters are not level 1 because in the game when Fran & Balthier joins the party they are 1 level higher than Vaan. When Basch, Ashe & Penelo permanently join the party they are 2 levels higher than Vaan.
I have no idea if I will ever get to that point. First I have to beat Omega Mark and the game on a normal save before tackling this disgusting, masochistic feat.