My Favorite Osu! Songs

Osu! is a game I recently stumbled upon while watching NA team Team Solo Mid, or TSM's solo top player Dyrus' stream.  He often will play the game between matches, considering queue times at his level are quite long, and I instantly downloaded it and started playing, considering I've been a huge fan of DDR for years now.  DDR for my mouse?  Hecks yeah.

None the less, I just wanted to point out a few of my favorite beatmaps I've managed to find so far, mostly just being the ones that I always fall back to playing simply because I find them fun.

All you have to do is click the images to be directed to the song's page on the Osu! website.

Tsugaru - DDR

Tsugaru is one of my favorite DDR songs turned into a beatmap for Osu!  When playing it on the DDR game, I was the first in my group of friends to complete the song by developing the 'horse gallop' technique that got me past the complicated main theme of the song.

Pulsefire Ezreal Log-In Theme - League of Legends

While this isn't a typical beatmap, being the Taiko drum type of beatmap instead of the classic osu! type, it's the only Taiko map I've come across and actually enjoyed playing.  Reminded me of how kick-ass the theme music was for that log-in screen, even though I personally have no urge to own Pulsefire Ezreal myself.

Fight Against Culex - Nobuo Uematsu

I personally love Super Mario RPG for the SNES.  It was an awesome game, and this was one of the most amazing songs from the game.  Apparently, as I learned after downloading the game, this theme was not only for fighting the hidden boss Culex in Super Mario RPG, but was also the regular battle theme for both Final Fantasy 2 and 4.  Learn something new everyday!

Final Fantasy IX Battle Theme - Nobuo Uematsu

God, I just love this composer in general.  Final Fantasy IX is by far my favorite Final Fantasy games, and it had so many great musical pieces that came from it.  While I've only managed to snag a few for Osu!, this is definitely my favorite thus far.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Melody - Michiko Naruko

This song is basically every song you learn on the ocarina beautifully pieced together into one fun to play song.  It's incredibly well done and very nostalgic for all Zelda players, creepy windmill dude and all!

Final Fantasy XIII Battle Theme - Masashi Hamauzu

From the moment I heard this song while playing FFXIII, I fell in love with it.  I've discovered variations on it through out my youtube exploring, and love the song to death in result.  Now, I've got it to play on Osu!, which makes it even better.

Pink Rose - DDR

Another DDR song I managed to dig up, one I quite enjoyed on the console and was happy to find on Osu!

League of Legends Dominion Song - Duncan Watt

I'll be honest that I had no idea this song was the dominion song until I found it on Osu!  I had just thought it was one of the many log in songs League had out before they really fell into the groove of having log in screens based on whatever was the latest ultimate skin or newest champion.  Still, it's pretty awesome that it's on Osu! for us to play.

A - DJ Amuro

Heavens, one of my absolute favorite DDR songs I've ever played.  I played this one for hours, and worked my fingers to the bone learning the hardest difficulty on the remote controller, considering my feet had no chance of ever moving that fast.  So flippin' happy to find it on Osu!

And that's all the songs I find worth mentioning!  I have quite a few others downloaded, but the songs I've listed, as said, are the ones I always fall back on when I'm bored and looking for a beatmap to play that I know I'll enjoy and have a fun time completing.

Favorite Video Games

I've played a lot of video games in my life so far.  My family has always been big into video games, stemming mostly out of my mother of all people.  My biological father never really enjoyed video games, but my mother loves them.  I remember spending hours with her after my parents divorced, sitting on the edge of her bed in the room at the back of the apartment, watching her leap and shoot from platform to platform in Super Metroid on the SNES.

I've had many consoles in my possession, whether I bought it, it was gifted, or was in my family.  Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Playstation, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Wii, Xbox 360, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advanced, Nintendo DS, and probably a few more that I honestly can't recall.  However, there's a handful of video games that I have really fallen in love with and always revert back to when I get bored at any point in time.

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My number one favorite game of all time.  Never have I played one game consecutively for this long.  Usually my attention for a game dies off after about a month, but I've actually been addicted to this game since I joined over a year ago.

My favorite part of the game is the variation.  You never get two similar matches in a row, there's a new strategy, a new team, a new position to be played every game.  I'm a huge fan of strategy games, love them til I hit the grave, and League of Legends is all about strategy and quick reactions!  That, and they love to dote on their fans when possible, including amazing animations of the playable champions.

League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game, most commonly consisting of 5v5 teams of champions that stem from a pool of over 100+ unique characters.  Instead of listing every detail I know about the game, how about you just visit the wiki?

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My number one favorite series of all time.  I love almost every game from the Metroid series, and if I didn't love it, I at least liked it.  Super Metroid is by far my favorite, but I am quite smitten with the Prime trilogy also.  Between my mother and I, I'm pretty darn sure we own every metroid game out there, for sure have played all of them.

Who couldn't love Samus Aran, a strong willed, independent, ass kicking female lead in a game?  That, and she has a pretty bad-ass suit that you spend every game evolving in order kick some major butt.  On top of that, each game in the series presents a new world, new things to explore, and even though there's normally an order of things you should follow to make the game easiest to play, you by no means have to.  Heck, some people are crazy enough to run the entire game 'backwards' by fighting the primary bosses in a reverse order!

Metroid has evolved primarily between a 2D screen scrolling shooter to a FPS 3D game.  More information about it can be found at the Metroid wiki.

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Pretty much any rhythm, music based game is my forte.  I love music, I was a huge band geek in highschool, and I have a great sense for tempo and generally do very well with these games.

Osu! is an online game, free for download, where you click, drag, and swirl bubbles that appear on your screen with your mouse to rack up points.

DDR, or Dance Dance Revolution is a mat dancing game, where you step on arrows according to how they are on the screen, and is played on consoles like the playstation and the wii.

Guitar Hero is technically a controller game, except the controller is in the form of a guitar that you 'strum' by pressing down colored buttons on the neck in accordance with the notes on the screen.  Is most well known on the playstation and xbox consoles.

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I love the final fantasy series as a whole, but Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy XIII are my favorites.  Considering there's more freedom in IX to roam about the world and such in more of the game than XIII, it tops as my number 1 favorite, but just by a bit.

Both games mentioned have fanatstic characters, wonderful story lines/plot, and awesome graphics, mostly in terms of the cut scenes in regards to IX.  The fighting systems are different in both games, but are enjoyable both in their own ways.

 

The Final Fantasy series of games are RPG's, each with a different focus of characters and storyline unless it's a second installment of an existing game, like X-2 or XIII-2.

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 Rune Factory Frontier is a game I play, but I honestly have never fully, 100% actually completed.  There's just so much to do and complete in the game!  I honestly get bored with farming only games, and complete dungeon crawlers only to generally get bored with them fairly quickly, so the fact that RFF is a combination of the two is perfect.

Besides it being a great combination of dungeon crawling and farming, the game has a good progression, making it so you can't complete it ridiculously fast, but also don't have to spend a month of play time to get a handful of crops and materials from monsters.  Some plants take stupid long to grow, namely the rare flowers needed to make an item necessary to marry a maiden, but by that point in the game you have enough money to buy a ton of fertilizers and speed up the process.

The game is a mix between farming, like Harvest Moon, where you plant and grow crops, and a dungeon crawler, like Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, where you fight monsters and further a main plot quest.  You can woo one of the 1 main ladies, cook, tame monsters to help out on the farm, improve your house, stargaze, fish; there's pretty much no end to what can be done in the game!

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Well, that's just a small taste of the games I enjoy.  I'm mostly a fan of RPG's as a whole, but dabble into FPS, strategy, and other genres also.  Just mention a game that's not over-the-top obscure and I'll generally have at least heard of it, if not played it at some point.