+7 Songs:

It's been a while since I added to my music hall of fame, but interacting with old anime and games led me to rediscoveries of music I'd underrated up until now.  While I was watching The World God Only Knows, I noticed Kanon singing some songs that weren't in my hall of fame but obviously should be.  So I checked out her album and ended up adding five more songs from the soundtrack.  Nao Toyama is the seiyuu behind Lyria so of course I adore her, but she also proved herself to be an amazing singer in this series.

As for Xenoblade Chronicles, I had already harvested a bunch of great Yoko Shimomura music from the title, but I underestimated ACE's ability to keep up with hits of his own.  Gaur Plains and Field of the Machinae are every bit as good as Yoko's pieces -- and that's saying a lot because Xenoblade features Yoko's best songs.

For 'Field of the Machinae', I edited out the first 56 seconds of the song because they don't really go anywhere, so it's actually the remaining 3 minutes of the song that made my hall of fame.

I'm almost done with Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition.  I'm on the final chapter preparing to challenge the final boss.  The only problem is they gave me a bunch of quests to kill level 96 giants and spiders while I'm still only level 72.  So to comprehensively defeat the game I have to quit furthering the plot and go grind for hours.  Bleh.  Maybe I'll just ignore the quests and pursue the ending. . .

I still have three more Switch rpg's waiting in line if I could ever beat Xenoblade.  I'd like to hurry up and beat this game so I can switch to something better.  The music, voice acting and visuals are great, but the gameplay is awful and the plot is pretty mediocre as well.  It's playable by the very fact that I've played it all the way to the end, but people would be better served with a hundred other options before they ever got to this one.

This gets my music hall of fame to a smooth 5470 songs, 12.4 days in continuous play length.  It also sets back my goal of 100 listens for all by another few days as the new songs have to play catchup.  A necessary sacrifice -- the songs were too good to ignore.

On an unrelated note, congratulations to Hartford and Grand Canyon for their first ever NCAA men's basketball tournament appearance.  I'll of course be cheering for all the Texas teams, especially Baylor which has a good chance to win it all.