Tag: Video Game Music
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Weekly Game Music: Deep Red Pastures (Baten Kaitos Origins)
New week, new music. We start this year with a little-known JRPG game. The genre is full of audio surprises. Anyway, here’s Deep Red Pastures, composed by Motoi Sakuraba. It fits with the windy setting of the game, Baten Kaitos Origins. Baten Kaitos Origins starts with our hero, Sagi, tasked to commit murder by his…
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Weekly Game Music: Escape from the City (Sonic Adventures 2)
New week, new music. Since last week was an onslaught of indie games, let’s go with a more main stream and more well-known song this time. Here’s Escape from the City, composed by Jun Senoue and sung by Ted Poley and Tony Harnell. It’s a speed-inducing music played during the first not-that-bad-3D-Sonic-game, Sonic Adventures 2.…
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Weekly Game Music: Setting Sail, Coming Home (Bastion)
Third on my Christmas video game music rush has some lyrics! Set Sail, Coming Home is Darren Korb’s excellent combination of his 2 other music,Mother, I’m Here and Build That Wall, both featured prominently in the game,Bastion. In context, this song depicts the decision of taking on a new direction in life. It does a great job conveying a…
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Weekly Game Music: Reclaiming the Island (The Oil Blue)
Second on my Christmas video game music rush is a much more mellow music from The Oil Blue. Reclaiming the Island by Jonathon Geer is a calming music for a game about digging oil, and retaining a level head as one operates a dangerous machinery. The Oil Blue describes a plausible future where oil becomes scarcer, and people are…
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Weekly Game Music: Mushrooms (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP)
Looks like I’ve missed 4 weeks from the massive crunch month I’ve had with developing SWARM! So it’s only fair I share 4 musics in quick succession. First one up is Mushrooms from a former indie rocker, Jim Guthrie. It plays when the Scythian eats — you guessed it — a mushroom in Superbrothers: Sword…
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Weekly Game Music: moony [advanced] (Futari No FantaVision)
New week, new music. Since the holidays is just around the corner, here’s a little festive trance music from the Japan-only puzzle game, Futari No FantaVision. Introducing moony [advanced] by Soichi Terada. Futari No FantaVision is actually just a 2-player version of a game that was released in the US, FantaVision. In FantaVision, you control…