I've got a "new" japanese version of rez for the ps2. it's never been used and the keep case that the game is in is still sealed. however, the outer box has been opened. but nothing in it has ever been used. send me a pm if you're interested. i'd like to either trade it or sell it. thanks.

God, I thought this was spam for sure :-D

Buying used vibrators over the internet is a bad idea 8)

the vibrator isn't used either. only the outer box has been opened. so no worries. :)

Interesting trivia from this game: "At the end of the credits, Rez is quoted to be "deciated to the incredible creative soul of Kandinsky".

Abstract artist and composer W. Kandinsky was a synaesthete (a person with the neurological condition in which two or more senses mingle into one), meaning he was able to 'see' music and 'hear' color. He described his works as quoted:

"I applied streaks and blobs of color onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could..."

The nature of Rez' audiovisual experience and the referrals to synaesthetia are obviously linked to Kandinsky, as well as the working title, "K-Project"."

I didn't know that about Kandinsky. Wonder what kind of videogame a synaesthete would create, btw.

this is really supposed to be a great game and it supposedly does create a trance-like state in the player. however, i don't have a japanese or modded ps2, and only really bought this version to sell it.

This is interesting. I don't know about painters, but some of us musicians do see colors in music. Especially those with perfect pitch, like me. I associate chords and tonalities with colors without thinking beforehand. G major is for example blue. G sharp diminished seventh chord is dark purple. I just feel it this way, no idea why. Other musicians might see totally different colors.

The much under-appreciated early 20th century composer Alexander Scriabin was into experimenting with those things. He has this weird cool symphonic poem called "Prometheus", for the performance of which he arranged colored lights in specific sequences. Unfortunately the technical level of those days didn't quite catch up with his ideas.

Actually, it goes far beyond sounds-colours associations. I have a friend, which did a color-based psycholinguistic analysis of Nabokov works (he was a synesthete as well). By using numbers of words and letters Nabokov used and assigning them specific colors Nabokov testified of associating them with, she tried to establish some psychological traits of the writer. Quite fascinating really, even if a bit far-fetched.

I think the phenomenon goes even beyond synesthete people. The neural pathways in our brains have very many points of interaction with each other. So it is always possible that some of them evoke unexpected associations and feelings.

Take a long look at any inanimate object. Depending on it's size, color, shape, you'll be subconsciously personalizing it by assigning a certain set of human characteristic to it. Of course, I have no way of telling what your associations might be and how pronounced they will manifest themselves.

I, for once, sometimes, have a hard time stopping doing that. I rarely really feel alone, I always have a uneasy feeling that the objects and items around me have a certain personality about 'em. It's rather weird, but quite interesting. And if you'll spend some time thinking about it, you might even learn why that certain pathway, connecting a physical trait of object and your association, was established in the first place.

Hey, do you think Gabe & Tycho are reading these forums?

that's possible. but the game they're referring to is planned for the xbox 360. not sure if it's a sequel or a reworking or what.

It's just an HD version of the original game. Very nice looking, of course!

Those trance vibrators are incredibly creepy, though...