Weekly Game Music: The Gensokyo The Gods Loved (Touhou: Mountain of Faith)


New week, new music.  Since I’ve already posted Cave Story before, it’s only natural that I post about another game series created by one amazing Japanese man: the Touhou project by Junya Ota.  Here’s a remix of The Gensokyo The Gods Lovedfrom Touhou: Mountain of Faith.  It’s yet another trance from the infamous zts.

Touhou: Mountain of Faith begins when Reimu Hakurei, the Hakurei shrine’s miko (Japanese shrine maiden), is informed by mysterious authority that the shrine must be closed.  Asking why, the figure claims the shrine lacks faith from its local citizens of Gensokyo.  Confused, Reimu informs her magician friend, Marisa Kirisame, addressing the terrible consequences of closing the shrine.  Marisa, noting that something smells fishy, convinces Reimu to investigate on this authority.

Touhou: Mountain of Faith is a top-down shooter, much like the old arcades.  Unlike those arcades, however, ships and aliens are replaced with magical girls, fairies, gods and Japanese monsters.  Most important, however, is how this series defines the aptly-named sub-genre, bullet hell.  The game literally tests your pattern recognition of screens and screens of lasers.

Touhou: Mountain of Faith was released on the PC in 2007.

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Weekly Game Music: Another Winter (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game)


New week, new music.  Here’s an excellent music from an indie video game, based off of a movie, based off of a graphic nove- aw, screw it!  Here’s Another Winter from the excellent chiptune band, Anamanaguchi.  It’s from the downloadable game, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is lightly based off of Bryan O’Malley’s graphic novel series, Scott Pilgrim.  Unlike the novels, it starts with Scott Pilgrim meeting and making out with Ramona Flowers, instead of Knives Chau.  From there, the game wastes no time: Scott Pilgrim has to defeat Ramona’s 7 ex-boyfriends, and his girl friend and band-mates, Stephen Stills and Kim Pine gets to join in the fun.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game plays very much like an old-school 2D beat’em-ups.  Up to 4 players can join in on the bash-fest of numerous pixelated thugs and enemies.  To spice things up, one can earn money to learn new abilities and experience points.  Furthermore, many items, including fallen bodies, can be picked up and thrown for extra damage.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game was released on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in 2010.
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Weekly Game Music: mrs mushroom likes LCD soundsystem (Botanicula)


New week, new music.  To celebrate Amanita Design again, here’s a playfully named music, mrs mushroom likes LCD soundsystem by DVA.  It’s a nature-inspired, if a little trippy, collection of sounds and composition from the beautiful game, Botanicula.

Botanicula narrates a light-hearted adventure of 5 small friends, Mr. Lantern, Mrs. Mushroom, Mr. Poppy Head, Mr. Feather, and Mr. Twig.  Mr. Lantern find himself taking on the duty of planting the last seed from the great tree that he and his friend inhabit.  The seed, which gives Mr. Lantern a vision, describes how the mysterious black parasites had started infesting the tree.  Quickly realizing the significance of this task, he gathers his loyal friends to help him trek down the large and complex home of theirs.

Botanicula is an unorthodox point-and-click adventure that involves directing the direction the group should go.  The game has no inventory system, and most of the actions require assistance from the player rather than the in-game characters themselves.  As an example, catapulting things off a twig is done through the player’s mouse instead of the character taking that action.  Similar to their previous games, Botanicula is narrated entirely without text.  Lastly, the game has numerous hidden secrets, which becomes a fun meta-game in-and-of-itself.

Botanicula was released on the PC, Mac, and Linux in 2012.


Extra!

Title: zatoichi
Game: Botanicula
Composers: DVA

Title: juchu
Game: Botanicula
Composers: DVA

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Weekly Game Music: Sweet Memories of Earth (DuckTales)


New week, new music.  Here’s a rock-and-roll remix of the The Moon Theme from DuckTalesSweet Memories of Earth.  The remixer, CarboHydroM, successfully adds adrenaline to Hiroshige Tonomura’s dreamy 8-bit composition.  Many of you will undoubtedly feel nostalgic about it!

DuckTales narrates Scrooge McDuck’s treasure hunting journey.  Much like any platformers in the heydays, Scrooge would jump, climb, and waltz his way through the dangerous caves, villages, and even the moon.  Somewhat unique to the game was the ability to use you cane not only as a weapon, but also a pogo stick to reach higher locations.  It even allowed Scrooge to bounce through spiked floors!  Rather surprisingly, especially in comparison to today’s standards, DuckTales ended up being a critically appraised IP-based game.

DuckTales  was released on the NES in 1989.
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