Fortunately, this is the only cliché Vechi Vrăjitor, the man behind Old Sorcery, chooses to indulge in, as the 11 minute long opener “The Crystal Funeral” immediately sets the bar pretty high: it is a masterfully written cinematic piece of music carrying an ambient, almost new-age-like feel, slowly evolving towards an epic buildup and finale, which wouldn’t sound out of place in Jim Kirkwood’s (maybe even in David Arkenstone’s) catalog. After moving on towards a split with fellow Finnish act Haxan Dreams and an EP, both subtly adding ingredients to the formula, Old Sorcery seems to reach true mastery of spells with its sophomore full-length Strange and eternal.īesides the extremely scarce liner notes, the first impression about the album comes from the monochrome, almost naively styled cover art by Sadist Stalker, depicting a castle in a vale.

Tldr version: MGQ’s writing still has a heart and soul put into it, and ME3 is soulless.Hailing from Finland, Old Sorcery is a well known name in the current dungeon synth scene its acclaimed debut Realms of Magickal Sorrow, an album which combined an old school approach with retro electronic music, drawing influences from the Berlin School, early ambient and trance (not the first of its kind – think of Grimrik‘s Die Mauern der Nacht – but still played out in a personal and engaging style), came out of nowhere in late 2017 and has since been released on tape, vinyl and CD by Garavluth Records, becoming a modern classic. You can justify it all you want with any myriad of excuses of why it happened, but it doesn’t change the reality of the situation, and the reality is that MGQ’s ending was written by someone who not only cared about the finish, also wanted to provide absolute closure, going to the effort of the game going on nearly an additional half-hour if you follow absolutely everything. ME3’s ending isn’t simply bad, it’s an example of the writers/director/whoever just giving up and throwing up random trash because they backed themselves into a corner and didn’t want to delay the game to make a real conclusion. I can’t even enjoy the first two games anymore.

See, I’m one of those crazy people who has lost all interest in Mass Effect as a series because of the last ten minutes of ME3.

It actually has nothing to do with making sure every possible permeation of dialogue through the three games, so much as it is providing a little blasted closure, not to mention a decent finale, a grand battle, compared to the horde mode swarm that marked the last real part of the game before the quick-time-event walk began. I will disagree, based on the fact I’d have preferred ME3 to end with text description of what came after compared to having zero closure whatsoever.

Royal hunt far away ep rar