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A few words to begin with: Since the shift to a VGM blog, this gets actually a decent number of views, my previous post  scoring not less than 40 views. While it may seems low (and let's face it, it is), i'm quite happy of how it's going, knowing the for the previous post , this blog wasn't really easy to find. Now back to the main topic. Also, this post is quite late , but having a bad connection didn't really help in posting this in time. Today's selection: a pair of music from CoD: World at War. Started in 2003 by a former team from the Medal Of Honor franchise, Call of Duty (CoD) grew up to be one of the most popular series of shooters worldwide, eventually leading Activision to get two teams to work on CoD games, Infinity Ward and Treyarch. Most of Treyarch games were frowned upon, as being "inferior CoD games", and that till the release of CoD: World at War. Far from being perfect,this game however had something more than most of the other ...

Let's get started. As I told in the previous post, I'll start talking about VGMs ( for those who don't know yet, VGM stands for Video Game Music) . And the first one i'll pick is a music from one of my favourite game series ever: Ace Combat. Back in 1994, the first Ace Combat game ( initially called Air Combat in europe, the name changed with the second episode) was basically the missing link between PC flight simulations and arcade games, by providing immediate fun to the player while still being set in a realistic context. Fast travel to 2006, and the release of Ace Combat (Zero): Belkan War. This game is a part of of what players  tend to call "trilogy",composed of AC: Squadron Leader, AC: Distant Thunder, and of course , AC: Belkan War. And the music I picked is no less than the final boss theme of this game. Throughout the game, a whole story of friendship, honor and ideals is built up, leading to a Warning: spoiler ahead:  final fierce battle betwe...

After months without any updates to my blog, I've decided to make it alive again, mostly to practice writing again, and also to actually work on an idea I've had for a while now. I've always wanted to share some VGMs, because I love both music and video games, so this might be a good place for it. I plan to present at least one VGM every 2 weeks, more if I have the time, will and material to work with. Shouldn't be much on an hassle though, so let's try to maintain this pace going.