I'll go on record to say, that I'm probably one of the biggest reasons that this & our 3 other games(well, one is all Lord_Cack's, so I haven't pushed the issue much) have been pushed back so much. First, Nod was gonna release this game on is own 5 years ago, I listened to the music, & offered to spice it up a little. Then, with this & every other game(Neutopia 3 & 1 of our 2 soon to be announced projects), I always come around & say "can we change this, can we add paralax here, what if we added this, how about better water animation, can this be moved over here, etc.?". I'm always the guy to push things further, which means things getting revised. For example, our secret project was supposed to be a small game that we were going to release while still working on MSR & N3 to whet people's appetites. I came along & turned it into a full game with all my questions & suggestions. I do take blame for this, as it's made us redo the games gfx several times.
After that, we have gained & lost atleast a couple of members. We had some disargreements with Dev X, & Seldane hasn't been around much, if at all on the internet. I can't recall if there was anyone else. But even then, we all have had our share of problems in life, Nod, Dev X, & Lord_Cack especially, & then more recently Black Tiger has been going thru some difficulties. When we had Dev X for instance, he lost his home at one point out in New Orleans, so, life always finds a way to interfere, but, even without Dev X & Sel, we've found a way to continue with our work, now to the breaking point of releasing this game finally. The core of the group has remained & stuck with it thru thick & thin!
And ofcoarse, as I stated above about other games we're working on, those have also gotten in the way of completely finishing MSR, for various reasons though right now, we're doing nothing BUT MSR, with exception to Lorc_Cack working on his main project when he doesn't have anything to do on MSR, & me, since I'm done with MSR, I have my own little project I'm working on, partly out of love for the TG, but also partly to continue to hone my skills in music for our next game, of which I have roughly half done musically, but would like to expand a little more(as usual) upon. Not to mention, I really want to make N3 killer in the ost department, though I know I'm not, & never will be up to par with Ryo Yonemitsu, JDK Band, Yuzo Koshiro, or any of the guy's of T's Music, I'm certinaly gonna try.
The hardest part is incorporating live instruments into the songs, though, I don't want to overdue that either. Some games overdo the guitar, hopefully I won't. But, even then you can't please everybody, it's impossible. I've found that there are even instruments that fit songs perfectly to me but to someone else, they might hate that particular instrument for whatever reason, so I have to make difficult choices in that respect.
