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Photos

Thankfully, Beat always travels with his prized camera, allowing him to take pictures during battle. These photos can be viewed at a later time from the Main Menu and, when necessary, can be sold. The selling price of the photo depends on several factors, including the quality of the photo and whether the entire subject is shown. Only 12 photos can be stored at a time. Unfortunately, this Photo system is very unbalanced, and taking several photos of the first boss alone will earn enough money to buy almost anything for the rest of the game.

Score Pieces

A Score Piece is a fragment of a musical score that allows you to perform a Session with characters that you meet in towns and dungeons. The Session will be evaluated based on how well the Score Piece that you select fits with the Score Piece held by the individual and you can win rare items depending on your score. In order to receive a high ranking for your Session, be sure to select a Score Piece with matching rhythm and harmony.

This minigame allows for tons of interaction will all NPC's, and can net the player some fantastic rewards.

Music, Chopin, and Bunin

Piano music composed by Chopin and performed by Stanislav Bunin will be played as you progress through the game. You can listen to the music that you have already heard and read background information about Chopin. You may also purchase an Unlock Key at Xbox LIVE® Marketplace that will unlock all Chopin piano music, regardless of your progression through the game.

Frederic Francois Chopin

Chopin was born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, a suburb of Poland's capital Warsaw, and ended his thirty-nine year life in Paris in 1849 under the watch of friends and his sister Ludwika. He is famous for being one of the great composers of the romantic period, and a brilliant pianist.

Most of Chopin's works were solo pieces for piano. He is sometimes called "The Poet of the Piano" because many of his pieces are expressions of extremely delicate sounds and ideas that seem to connect directly to the listener's heart.

Never a healthy man, he was often plagued by illness. He also had a delicate temperament, and tended to be withdrawn and easily hurt. That may be, however, one of his secrets for producing such surprisingly emotional musical works. His nocturnes and waltzes are still loved throughout the world today.

Stanislav Bunin

Born in Moscow in 1966, he is a grandson of Heinrich Neuhaus, noted founder of the Soviet Piano School. In 1983, he became the youngest ever winner of the Long-Thibaud International Contest at 17 years old. He went on to the Moscow Music Academy, and won the illustrious 11th International Chopin Piano Competition in 1985. He walked away with the Concerto Prize and the Bolognese prize.

In 1990 his "Bach Recital" and "Mozart: Chamber Concertos" won the Japan Gold Disc Award. In the winter of 1999, he won the Italian Viotti d'Oro Prize for his highly regarded performance in Europe, becoming the first pianist to receive the award since Michelangeli.

In 1999, to commemorate the 150 year anniversary of the death of Chopin, he began the "Chopin-Zyklus", which were eight appearances throughout Europe (mainly in Italy) and Japan. In November 2001, he performed a "reenactment" of his winning performance at the Chopin Competition with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2005, the 20 year anniversary of his Chopin competition win, he performed all-Chopin piano recitals throughout Japan to sold out crowds.

Information taken from Eternal Sonata Official Site

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