Author: Taro Omiya
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Weekly Game Music: Now You’re a Hero (You Have to Burn the Rope)
Let’s venture into songs with lyrics again. Here is You Have to Burn the Rope’s Now You’re a Hero, by Henrik Nåmark. Yep, a music by a Swedish composer! You Have to Burn the Rope is an action-packed game starring a nameless, bowler-hat wearing character who’s specialty is to throw axes. As he traverses through…
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Weekly Game Music: On To Grasstown (Cave Story)
Going back to chip tune again, On To Grasstown is from a free PC game called Cave Story. This game’s design, artwork, code, sound, and music were put together by one Japanese man, Daisuke Amaya, within 5 years. While initial introduction was slow, the game gained massive popularity when translated to english, starting a new…
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Weekly Game Music: Napoleon’s Final Conflict, Revisited (Psychonauts)
Here’s Psychonauts’ Napoleon’s Final Conflict, Revisited, arranged by Peter McConnell. This is a remix of an old Russian music, 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. As its name implies both the original composition and the game context indicates the fall of Napoleon’s conquest. Unfortunately, revealing further would spoil the game heavily. Psychonauts is a multiple-award-winning…
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Weekly Game Music: Get on the Bus (Earthbound)
This time around, I’m introducing a medley from Earthbound, Get on the Bus, arranged by virt. This combines the following themes from the SNES classic, originally composed by Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu, and Toshiyuki Ueno: What a Great Picture, The Metropolis of Fourside, Title Screen, and Good Friends / Bad Friends. I specifically…
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Weekly Game Music: Blackout City (Bit.Trip Runner)
Introducing the chiptune music introduced in Bit.Trip Runner, Blackout City, composed by Anamanaguchi. Granted, I’m cheating a bit this time around: the music was composed and performed by the indie rock band long before Bit.Trip Runner was released, but it’s still one of the finest composition that combines NES and Gameboy sounds, with a real…
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Weekly Game Music: Home, Sweet Home (Beyond Good & Evil)
Today’s music is from Beyond Good & Evil, Home, Sweet Home, composed by Christophe Héral. That’s right: the first French composer I’m introducing in this weekly posts! Speaking of which, it looks like Cristophe will be composing music for the movie, Adventures of Tintin. Beyond Good & Evil is another cult classic in gaming that…