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A long time ago, I wrote a review on Dark Souls comparing it to Demons Souls. I concluded that while Dark Souls is a big improvement over Demons Souls in many ways, Demons Souls music as a whole was much more original, memorable, and ultimately cerebral. Digging through my time in this wiki and my experiences as a gamer led me to remember this piece from Demons Souls. I hope you all enjoy it!

An update on my life...some of you might know that I haven't exactly had a great time in the last few months []. I'm happy to say that although I'm not exactly full of sunshine and bunnies, I've regained a lot of my focus now. After saying goodbye to America I am now in Taiwan, awaiting my military service starting hopefully by August. In the meantime, I'm hoping to get a job here as a translator and/or speech writer.

Being back in Taiwan is very surreal to me. Although I'm a native Taiwanese I was largely raised in Australia and America. There are many memories in my apartment, which was caked with a good inch of dust when I first got back--many of which were not very happy. I am confident, however, that my experience this time will be much better as both my peers and I will be much more mature than our last meeting. There are things to look forward to, too. At least the food is very good here :)

Back to the music...while there is certainly a melancholy air to the piece (it is Demons Souls, after all), the tone lightens considerably halfway, until it sounds almost as happy as music one might expect from the ending of a Miyazaki film. However, the ending is quite somber, matching the tone at the beginning. For you classical music buffs out there, this is rather reminiscent of the Chaconne, Partita No. 2 by J.S Bach. For Bach, his piece was a commemoration of his then recently deceased wife--the good times they shared, as well as his pain at her passing. In a way I feel that both "Return to Slumber" from Demons Souls and the Chaconne speaks to me on a personal level, since the things that have happened to me as well as my feelings for Taiwan.

If you guys have any questions about Taiwan, feel free to ask them below! It's very different from the US. 