Went to Distant Worlds at Carnegie Hall
yesterday. I paid $100 for my tier 2 seats. My seats are 1 level above the most
expensive seats. The view was nice but my friend told me he got his for $28 on
the balcony which had a pretty good view as well. It’s fine, how often will I
ever go to Carnegie Hall ever again?
This has been the best distant worlds
in recent memory. The audience was mature and no one cheered during the
performance, it was exceptional. Usually at game concerts, people holler and cheer
stupidly, ruining the experience. This time, none of that, I thoroughly enjoyed
it. There was way too many FF7 songs as usual, and they picked the worst FF13
song out of all of them, which is my only complaint. The Maria/Draco song was pretty interesting. However,
I did not like the female opera singers voice at all. I felt a little bit
cringey when she was singing, she couldn’t hit the high notes. The video
editing got a lot better. They’re using newer visuals with the upcoming games
and the quality has improved a lot since many of the games are being remade for
Steam. The merchandise line was terrible. They had a snake line just to see
what was on sale, absolutely a disaster. After waiting 20 minutes to see what
they had, I left without buying anything. Why couldn’t they hand out a list of
items on sale to save everyone’s time?
The setlist was:
Battle on the Big Bridge
Cosmo Canyon
Not Alone
The Oath
Fang’s Theme
Flash of Steel
Searching for Friends
Theme of Love
Apocalypsis Noctis
Liberi Fatali
Somnus
Bombing Mission
Heavensward
Chocobo Theme
To Zanarkand
Hymn of the Fayth
Opera Scene
Main Theme
Aerith’s Theme
One Winged Angel
