Taro Omiya

Taro Omiya

Software Engineer, Game Designer

Tag: Playstation 3

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Liberation (La Muerte de Papo) (Papo & Yo)

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    #WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. This week’s music comes from a touching and tragic game called Papo & Yo.  Despite it’s fantastical (or more correctly, magical realism) settings, the puzzle platformer touches what it’s like to live under parental abuse.  It’s quite fitting, then, that the credits music for this game, Liberation (La Muerte de Papo) by Brian D’Oliveira,…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Sync (Fez)

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    #WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. Do you feel the beat? Yes, that one. Careful, don’t skip that one. You don’t want to fall off of those disappearing platforms! Great, now keep the rhythm. Now we’re all in Sync, a piece by Disasterpeace from the mind-bending game, Fez. Fez is a fairly simple puzzle-platformer with a…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Temple of Rain (Guacamelee!)

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    #WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. http://youtu.be/YZGrI4NI9Nw This week’s music, Temple of Rain, is mucho Mexican composition by Rom Di Prisco. It’s a bueno piece that makes you excitado for the majesty that is temple número uno. ¿I mean, what were you expecting, señor luchador? ¡This! ¡is! ¡The pun-filled! ¡Guacamelee! Guacamelee! is a metroidvania beat ’em…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Life is Beautiful (Deadly Premonition)

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    #WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. This week’s music is…the creepiest…most haunting…and downright scary music track in horror games’ histor- AH HA HA HA! No, sorry, I can’t do this. I mean, this horror game, Deadly Premonition is famous for being so bad, it’s good. So of course this week’s music is the one that hilariously…

  • #WeeklyGameMusic: Ryoshima Coast (Okami)

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    #WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. This time, we visit ancient Japan from this brilliant piece from Okami. Make way for the epic music, Ryoshima Coast by Hiroshi Yamaguchi! It’s a wonderful composition most fitting for a game that re-tells numerous Japanese fairy tales. Okami starts with feudal Nippon (“Japan” in Japanese) getting swarmed by monsters…

  • Weekly Game Music: Glasgow Mega-Snake (Spec Ops: The Line)

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    New week, new music.  Ready for another melancholic music?  Here’s Glasgow Mega-Snake by the Scottish rock bad, Mogwai.  While it may initially sound like a generic rock music, the composition very quickly wades into an amazing mixture of sadness and rage.  A fitting music to this unexpectedly excellent brown shooter, Spec Ops: The Line. Spec…