Tag: Wii
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#WeeklyGameMusic: Snowy Valak Mountain / Night (Xenoblade Chronicles)
#WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. A bit late, but this week’s (last week’s?) music plays on Valak Mountain during night in the cult classic Xenoblade Chronicles. ACE+’s composition is simple, calming, almost silent tune that fittingly brings awe to a snowy mountain lit by glowing crystals. It’s one of the many beautiful pieces cleverly placed…
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#WeeklyGameMusic: Ryoshima Coast (Okami)
#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…
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Weekly Game Music: Corruption With Rage and Melancholy (ObsCure II)
New week, new music. Ready to get scared? Here’s an excellent sad music from the horror game, ObsCure II. Corruption with Rage and Melancholy by Olivier Deriviere is the type of music that’s exactly what’s written in the title: a swing of two linked emotions. ObsCure II narrates the misadventures of 4 college friends who…
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Weekly Game Music: Co-op (Magnetis)
New week, new music. More techno, now with 90% more jazz. Here’s a music from Magnetis, Co-op. It’s composed by Romain Gauthier, the same composer as Edge. Magnetis is a Tetris-based puzzle game that involves dropping a pair of blocks to clear more blocks. Unlike Tetris, however, you clear blocks by creating a line segment where two like-colored magnet…
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Weekly Game Music: Title Screen (Animal Crossing)
New week, new music. Here’s yet another piano composition from the famed Nintendo music composer, Kazumi Totaka. The calm, jazzy Title Screen music is quite appropriate for this laid back game, Animal Crossing. The story behind Animal Crossing is very simple, if lacking. You (yes, you) decide to leave home and travel to a town full of animals. As you…
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Weekly Game Music: You Can’t Handle My Style (Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People)
New week, new music. I’m feeling the summer laziness, so lets go with a silly song this time. Here’s a really long song title, You Can’t Handle My Style from the equally ridiculously titled game, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. By now, it should be no secret that the song was sung by Matt Chapman himself,…