Taro Omiya

Taro Omiya

Software Engineer, Game Designer

Category: #WeeklyGameMusic

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Prime #4507 (Echochrome II)

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    This week’s #WeeklyGameMusic may sound like generic elevator music, but is actually a world record holder. That’s right, we’re talking about the single longest video game track ever composed (as of this writing, year 2020, according to Guinness World Records), Prime #4507. This whopping 75-minutes long piece was composed by Hideki Sakamoto for the mind-bending…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Skate Park Shuffle (Create)

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    Regulars of #WeeklyGameMusic know I often find some rather obscure game music pretty often. Here’s one from a little-known sandbox game called Create, developed by EA Bright Light. That’s right, we’re checking out Electronic Arts game music this week! Ian Livingstone’s piece, Skate Park Shuffle, is a bit corporate at the beginning, but soon mellows…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Colors (Guilty Gear Strive)

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    Finally, we cover heavy metal in this week’s #WeeklyGameMusic with Arc System Works’ upcoming fighting game, Guilty Gear Strive. Composed by Daisuke Ishiwatari and performed by Naoki Hashimoto, this admittedly Engrish song manages to capture the goofy and chaotic fighting style resident Guilty Gear surgeon, Faust has. Despite it’s brash and dark beginning, it’s a…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Undertale (Undertale)

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    This theme needs no introduction: it’s Undertale by Tobi Fox. This particular piece of music is a bit of a stand-out for #WeeklyGameMusic, given its clear story-driven composition. The gradual crescendo in this theme helps build up to the final moments of your character journey. Undertale starts with a bit of a legend: long ago,…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Mamazon (Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada)

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    This week’s #WeeklyGameMusic, to be honest, leaves me more baffled than I can ever describe. Here’s Mamazon‘s theme, composed by Hirofumi Taniguchi from the very meta mobile game, Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada. And yes, for those listening to it now, I, too, have no idea what’s going on. But it sure sounds special!…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: A Quick Break (Cuphead)

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    Ready for a hard-to-find tune in a hard-to-play game? This week’s WeeklyGameMusic has you covered with A Quick Break by Kristofer Maddigan from the indie game classic, Cuphead. This acapella piece from Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.’s debut title encourages the player to…put the game down. Huh. Interesting. Cuphead‘s story takes the 30’s animation approach of…