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Festival to kick off
29th annual season
this year
By ANDREA DAVIS
For the Daily
You've seen them setting up
by the Modern Languages Build-
ing - raising tents and construct-
log platforms
- and this week-
end Top of the Ann Arbor
Park will finally Summer
begin. This is )
Ann Arbor Sum-
mer Festival's Through July
29th season, 8, Various
with events and t
performances
in music, dance, Ingalls Mall
food, film and and Power
more. And Top Center
of the Park is
packed with FreeforTopof
diverse enter- the Park events
tainment that is Prices vary
free for the com- for Mainstage -
munity (which performances
includes you,
poor college stu-
dent). Local, national and interna-
tional performers will grace the
stage including returning favor-
ites and many who are making
their Michigan debuts.
"It really defines the summer-
time experience," said Summer
Festival Executive Director Robb
Woulfe.
Oneneweventthisyear involves
gigantic dinosaurs milling around
the Power Center lawn.
"This year we're really excited
to have this attraction from Aus-
tralia called Erth's Dinosaur Pet-
ting Zoo, which is this large-scale
puppet exhibition for life-size
dinosaurs," Woulfe said.
Erth Visual and Physical Inc.
is an Australian avant-garde the-
ater and visual arts troupe that
creates cutting-edge live theater.
They have performed internation-
ally, but Top of the Park will be
their Michigan debut. From June
29 to July 1, they will perform two
interactive shows a night, where
the public can meet the prehis-

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toric.
"People will see a lot of fami-
lies and a lot of curious festival
goers coming up for (the troupe),"
Woulfe added.
But for many, the live music
defines their Top of the Park expe-
rience.
"I love that element of sur-
prise," Woulfe said. "You could
be stumbling across the festival
and all of the sudden you have this
great band from the other side of
the world, or you could stumble on
the festival, and it's a local street
musician."
One rock band hails all the way
from Pakistan: Noori. Sponsored
by the U.S. State Department for
their very first tour of the United
States, the members aim to pro-
mote cultural diplomacy through
their original yet communicable
Pakistani sound.
"Sometimes even within the
same night, you'll have a variety
of music genres playing," Woulfe
said. "I think that's the texture of
a festival, that's what gives it its
quirky personality."
There are 60 performers over
the course of Top of the Park,
including Bearfoot, The Infamous
Stringdusters, Los Gatos, Charlie
Slick and Jennie DeVoe.
The Mainstage events are the

indoor component to the festival,
mainly showing at Power Cen-
ter. While tickets are not free,
they're an investment to experi-
ence performers such as Rufus
Wainwright, Esperanza Spalding,
Pilobolus and Cinematic Titanic,
among others. Al Green opens the
series with his performance this
weekend.
Even with all of the exciting
acts coming up for Top of the Park,
Woulfe still cherishes the outdoor
cinema series. These movies, cho-
sen by the community last fall,
will play outdoors at Ingalls Mall.
"Yeah, you're there to watch the
movie, but you're really there to
hang with your community ... and
it ends up being sometimes a big-
ger social experience than it does
a movie-going experience," Woulfe
explained. "But I think those are
defining moments in peoples' lives
within this festival. We're thrilled
to be a part of that, if we can help
make those kinds of memories."
This year Top of the Park will
feature the films "Ghostbusters,"
"Forrest Gump," "Breakfast at
Tiffany's," "The Big Lebowski,"
"Jurassic Park" and "Dirty Danc-
ing" among others.
For more information on the
events at Top of the Park, please
visit annarborsummerfestival.org.

By JULIAN AIDAN
Daily Arts Writer
Nearly five and a half years after
its first release, the seventh game
and prequel to the "Ys" series saw
its North Ameri-
can release via *
the Steam digi-
tal distribution Y .O.i
platform. With Ys
five difficulties Nihon Falcom
ranging from
"Very Easy" to PC
"Nightmare,"
three playable characters, a
20-plus hour main story and two
bonus modes, "Origin" delivers
intense, dynamic combat and high
replay value.
The expansive "Ys" series uni-
verse's beginnings are explained
in "Origin," which covers the jour-
neys of one of three main charac-
ters - Axe-wielding apprentice
knight Yunica, the magician Hugo
and the mysterious and agile Claw
- through 25 floors of a demon-
infested tower. Yunica and compa-
ny hail from Ys, an idyllic floating
sanctuary that is home to a pair of
twin goddesses, Reah and Feena
and the root of all magic, the Black
Pearl. Ys hovers above a ruined
and war-torn landscape fraught
with danger and demons, which
the goddesses have seen fit to dis-
appear to, taking the Black Pearl
with them.
This is where the player char-
acter comes in, hacking, slashing
and blasting their way through the
tower and uncovering the reality
behind the goddesses' disappear-
ance. Each character has a dif-
ferent story, and mastering each
one's abilities is key to fully clear-
ing and understanding "Origin" 's
plot. Serious gamers can even take
a stab at timed and arena modes,
with times and achievements dis-
played in leaderboards worldwide.
The combat is incredibly fast-
paced even on lower levels of dif-
ficulty, and each character has
a vastly different playstyle from
the others. Progressing means
adapting to various platformer
and puzzle-solving elements and
dealing with the various obstacles
enemies impose, from lighting up
your screen with dozens of light-
ning bolts to teleporting and spew-

ing acid. Bosses require inventive
strategies to take down and, while
they border on frustrating, pro-
vide fun and white-knuckled, no-
frill, no-break tests of skill.
As much of "Origin" 's appeal
can be placed into its crazy combat
as can be placed into its environ-
ment; stages are designed to test
out-of-the-boxthinkingand speed,
the synth-heavy, rock-orchestra
soundtrack keeps engagements
lively and the big-eyed Japanese
art style is a welcome break from
the recent string of dark releases.
Fans of other Japanese RPGs like
the "Star Ocean" series or ear-
lier "Final Fantasy" series will
feel at home with the anime-style
cutscenes, wailing synth riffs and
the heavy grind necessary to take
down later bosses.
Hack and slash
to a new level.
Occasionally, players will
encounter a wall in their prog-
ress. This is especially true in
the harder difficulties. In a fash-
ion typical of the "Ys" series and
other RPGs, a startling difficulty
jump separates certain areas
which forces players to go back
and grind for experience and
upgrades. Fortunately, "Origin"
features stacking experience,
defense and strength bonuses for -
individuals engaged in extended
combat, which not only encour-
ages but rewards this kind of
play.
"Ys Origin" is a great game
for anyone looking for fast-
paced action, and with roughly
60 hours necessary just to fully
uncover the plot, five difficulties
to conquer and an Arena. mode
that provides nigh-limitless new
tests of skill, it has a very large
amount of content to explore
and master. Devotees of the
series will find their sanctuary
in this prequel, and newcomers
will have a taste of the signature
balls-to-the-wall combat, puz-
zling platformer characteristics
and adorable character cast the
"Ys" series is famed for.