I've had the chance recently to see the BBC4 Documentary, How Music Works... and as a musician, I have to say I was thoroughly entertained.

But it's not some technical boring lecture on music theory... I'm sure everyone could walk away from a showing having fully enjoyed the experience...

...if you can get your hands on it, that is.

Eternal Sonata is a Japanese-style RPG that takes place in the dying fever dream of Frederic Chopin. Yes, really.

Here's the story. Chopin (the brilliant Polish piano composer) is dying of tuberculosis somewhere in Spain with his rather masculine (in real life, not in the game) girlfriend watching over him. He has a fever dream on his deathbed, and in that dream is where your adventures take place. In this world, people with terminal illnesses are capable of performing magic. Two members of your party, Frederic and Polka, are terminally ill, therefore they can throw long-range comets, heal the party, etc. It's handy to be Terminal in this world.

Rez was originally a quirky shooting game for the Dreambast. It was recently re-released in HD for the xbox 360, and I highly recommend picking up that version, both because HD > SD, and because Dreamcast controller < dead turtle. Also, the game for some reason supports multiple vibrators. So with the dreamcast version, you could buy wired vibrators to put...on your body. I'll let your imagination go wild with that for a minute. On the 360, you can actually set up additional controllers to act as vibrators for you. I never saw the need, but other reviewers think it increases the immersion.