#also known as thiana

[06strawberrylemonade28]

9090 words.... and counting!! but i'm almost done!! will have the fluffy little jelsa fic up by CHRISTMAS <3

[hal-boy]

It's still technically Sunday, I'm beating the buzzer with a solid 10 minutes left in the day as I type this up (and it's 11:59 as I post this!)

This week's track is Thiana's Theme from Panel de Pon (1995)... though honestly this write up is both for this track and the game itself.

Now known as the Puzzle League series but originally localized in the US as Yoshi's Tetris Attack, Panel de Pon is an arcade-style puzzle game that is completely unrelated to Tetris. The Japanese release is the only place where the original cast of player-characters, the fairies, are present (the Gamecube remaster in Nintendo Puzzle Collection technically features their descendants, not the original cast.): obviously, the Tetris Attack localization changed all the characters to Yoshi/Mario characters, and later editions of the game have done away with having a cast altogether (booooooooooo). Also, the item Lip's Stick from Super Smash Bros is from the main playable character from this game, if you were ever wondering where that came from.

Thiana the forest fairy is my sister's character favorite to play as, and my favorite is Sherbet the ice fairy (rendered as Sharbet in game, among multiple other name errors). My sister is, uh, notably better at the game than me, and the game is set up so the winner's music plays in 2p mode, so I am typically hearing Thiana's track when I play, lol.

I think this track is so relaxing! It's distinctly chiller than many of the other tracks in the game, which I appreciate. I love the instrumentation, too. The SNES's music was really such a step up compared to the NES, capability wise: I'm always so shocked when I hear an SNES track and it's actually good, lmao.

You can go to Vi/mms/La/ir's Vault to play online if you'd like, no download required, though of course note it it's all in Japanese. If you like giving Nintendo money for subpar services (for some reason) it's also on Nintendo Switch Online.