Author: Taro Omiya
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Weekly Game Music: Mii Channel (Wii)
New week, new music. Lets try something different, shall we? Here’s the Mii Channel music from the Nintendo Wii console. It’s composed by Kazumi Totaka: the composer who frequently drops the Totaka Song Easter eggs in his games. Well, there isn’t a whole lot to talk about the Mii Channel, let alone the Wii Console, but…according to…
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Strange Free Games: Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online
New week, new game. Lets talk about an MMORPG, shall we? Here’s one addicting, but queer RPG called Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online. Why queer? Well, for a Japanese anime inspired game, the visuals are oddly gothic and religiously offensive. Unusual to this genre, the game even has some cinema-scenes, too. And the most interesting part?…
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Weekly Game Music: Opening Credits (Little King Story)
New week, new music. Like classic music, with a modern twist? Here’s an a cappella remix of Ravel’s Boléro: the Opening Credits for Little King Story, composed by Yutaka Minobe. The royal music helps set the stage for the toybox-like environment in this dictator-takes-over-the-world game. Little King Story starts with a little boy who comes upon a crown that magically…
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Strange Free Games: Void
New week, new game. Today’s free game is from the friendly team of students at DigiPen Institute at Singapore. The game? Void, a dimension-manipulating first-person puzzle game. Void can be downloaded from the DigiPen website. People who played Portal should feel very comfortable with this game. Void begins with our main hero, Artaith, desperately running away from the rubble, and…
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Weekly Game Music: Prime #19 (Echochrome)
New week, new music. Here’s a soothing café for a mind-bending puzzle game: Prime #19, composed by Hideki Sakamoto. The music is intended to soothe the player to an otherwise bizarre and confusing puzzle game,Echochrome. As a puzzle game Echochrome offers no story. Despite this, the aesthetic of the game tells a lot. In a world outlined by…
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Strange Free Games: Cloud
New week, new game. Here’s a popular game that helped launched the infamous artsy game studio, ThatGameCompany. Cloud, is a Katamari-like game of collecting clouds and achieving various missions. Incidentally, it was one of the games I’ve introduced in the Weekly Game Music series as well. Cloud can be downloaded at University of Southern California’s website. Cloud describes a bed-ridden…