“I remember playing in Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture and Enigma Variations, Walton’s Crown Imperial and Delius’ La Calinda and being amazed by the melodic content in the pieces – those times for me were amazing,” he says. “I really developed a love of that English-sounding music. Later I discovered Vaughan Williams and adored his works, especially his 5th Symphony. The Sibelius symphonies as well were very influential on me. Of course when I wasn’t playing in orchestra I was playing metal!”

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I’ve played through a bit of it this evening, and I can confirm from a personal perspective that it is more organized, more challenging, and far better than the original. Everything the first offered is still there so far plus much more. Either I or Banjo-Conker will have plenty more to share with you all in our upcoming review if you’re still uncertain on whether or not to purchase TiP.

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What Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise loses in coming second, and not having a triple-core PowerPC chip to drive its graphics, it makes up with its new, much better stylus-based interface, and Rare’s impressive feat of retaining the vast majority of the original game’s best features, in roughly the same measures. It’s still a bit too complex to work as a kids’ game (for that you might be better with the 360 sequel’s co-op mode, where you can pick up a second pad and offer a helping hand), but for everybody else it comes highly recommended.

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Earlier today, an alleged source within Microsoft sent the above sheet music. As you can easily tell, it is labeled as the ‘Main Title’ music for the currently unannounced Killer Instinct 3. It could simply be another tease from Rare considering they love to do that sort of thing, or perhaps this is actually legitimate, as it is no surprise that rumors have been abound for a new installment in the franchise for quite awhile now. For now, all I can say is stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed that this may finally be the “confirmation” we’ve been waiting for after all these years.

Earlier today I stopped by Gamestop and picked up the strategy guid for Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. I have no intentions whatsoever on using it to complete the game, I just like looking through the guides after the game’s completion. I did open it up however to see if it included any Pinata Cards and sure enough, it does. Nine in fact. I’ll be sure and get pictures of them taken individually so when the game releases and if you have an Xbox 360 Vision Camera, you can simply scan the cards and presto!, the pinatas are in your Garden.

Don’t forget that Trouble in Paradise releases in the U.S. on Tuesday, September 2nd and in Europe on September 5th.