Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Video's finally done! Oh boy, did I miss you guys!

Welcome to another episode of Game Suite Zone! This time, we'll be dissecting "Travels to the North" from Epic Battle Fantasy 3 -- an old flash game from Newgrounds! I thought I'd try something a little different, so I went for another game that I played during childhood, but on the internet this time.

Here are the topics we covered.
1) Tempo & Time Signature - 0:36
2) Persian Strings - 0:44
3) ??? - 2:06
4) Tambourine - 3:30
5) Bansuri - 4:20
6) Pipa - 5:15
7) ??? - 5:40
8) Guzheng - 6:03
9) ??? - 6:19
10) Mastering - 7:10
The Music - 9:05

Here's the video with all of the note patterns: youtube.com/watch?v=l6rJJC9SEMM&ab_channel=shadowmetalmario1


Over these past few months, I've continuously been trying to improve the series. After a lot of planning, worrying, and thinking, I wasn't comfortable doing another episode unless I put the improvements into action.

I'd say this is a good direction in terms of its entertainment value. The only thing about this direction is that it takes significantly longer to produce a video. When I had all of my materials together, a GSZ video took about 1 to 2 days to create. This video took at least five. Manually animating all of those pictures takes quite a while longer than I anticipated.

It was all definitely worth it, but that just adds even more time to create something I can't just release so often. There's other stuff I'd like to talk about, but I can save that for a little later. I'd just like to catch up on whatever else I missed while I worked in the shadows of shame.

Thanks for reading! Hopefully this episode was a lot more interesting for you. :)

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Sonic, Knuckles, Cream, and Amy sprites (from thumbnails) were ripped by Dave [Hypero] Edwards, and Chao sprites were ripped by Psychtaygar -- both from The Spriters Resource!

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