Now I know the ending is infamous and I 100% blame EA's unnecessary & heartless intervention for it (it's also the same reason why Andromeda tanked) but Clint Mansell & co. knocks the soundtrack out of the park. Just pop that bitch "Leaving Earth" on to join the depression generation . _________________ Some RYM paraphernalia:
I know I've brought this up in the past, but I think this is always a fun topic.
I was always impressed with the amount of sound that could come out of my modest gameboy. I've been listening to a lot of that recently.
I find it impressive what some were able to with so little. (It was the same 8 Bit soundchip they used for the NES).
You should give Trip World OST a listen if you're looking for more gameboy stuff. Probably the most impressive GB soundtrack I've heard. Sunsoft's music was always awesome.
The Music Forum had recently descended to a new low. Yesterday, Page 1 was nothing but AotD threads, CotD threads, and that stupid fucking WAAYLTRN thread that I wish would die. Thank you Rocka for bringing something else to the table. I recall the Video Game Music Thread from last year. Had it been inactive for so long that you couldn't revive it?
Anyway, I remember the takeaway from the old thread was that video game music is different because it's composed to loop forever and ever with no logical end, whereas traditional songs have a logical ending. But that doesn't make video game music inherently better or worse.
I tend to spend a lot of time with the videogames I do play, but don't play many. Many of those, the sound and music usually goes hand in hand with the environment e.g., the music of Skyrim is beautiful and sometimes transcendental when walking around that environment, but I can't imagine myself listening to it outside of the game, same with something from the Ico line of games. I sometimes find myself humming melodies from Castlevania: Vampire Killer; Bloody Tears; Simon's Theme. But some tracks that have really stuck with me and I do listen to on their own are Besaid, Servants of the Mountain, and A Fleeting Dream, all from Final Fantasy X. Pretty vanilla response, but I think Uematsu really shines in this arena.
And then I really love the videogame-inspired, 8bit remixes of Only Shallow and Good Morning Captain, the latter of which seems to have been removed (but you can catch a preview in the link)
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