While I am certain that I am no doubt forgetting some of the older personal faves of mine, there are a few "more recent" games that I loved to listen to.
1. The Witcher 3 (amazing and serene score!)
2. Danganronpa 1.2 Reload (Despair Syndrome 1 & 2, Homicide/Kill Now are AMAZING inventions!)
3. Final Fantasy series (mainly FF7 & FF9)
4. Resident Evil 2 Remake (Re 2, the original, had such eerie music.)
I having been dipping in and out of Horizon chase (the PS Plus game from a few months ago). A tune has played a few times now and I'm positive it's exactly the same notes as a tune from celeste. Strange.
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Ooh awesome Trails of Cold Steel II tracks @KratosMD. Falcom music is sooo good! I recently discovered that all of their music is on Amazon Music, and since I got a 90 day trial I've been listening to bits of it the past few days. I'm really looking forward to playing the games.
This track from Trails in the Sky Second Chapter is so creepy. I had it in my head for ages. 😂 The Enforcers It plays whenever some of the villains converse with the party.
Their boss battle theme is brilliant. This track plays in the final chapter of the game, so you might not want to click on it. Fateful Confrontation It's super anyhow.
@RogerRoger Yeah, all the songs don't work equally well on the piano. Some of that is the fact that the powerful vocals really drive the emotion in a lot of these songs. With that said, I find the calmer piano notes help put me into a bit of a meditative state (I tried just listening to NieR: Automata's OST, but, invariably, I stopped what I was doing and focused on the music, which isn't ideal when you're trying to complete a task ). It helps that the melodies of these songs are so strong.
@Kidfried That concert sounds great. I really like the diverse range of games it covers. Everything from modern gen blockbusters to niche classics from the past.
I've only been to one concert — the one that tours and performs Legend of Zelda music — and it was an entrancing experience.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I was surprising by how elaborate Priscilla's song in the tavern was. Like most other aspects of the game, the attention to detail is astounding.
I'm not restoring Dandelion's Inn next time, though.
And yeah, Hunt or Be Hunted is one of many intense and memorable themes in the game. I hope Cyberpunk is similarly strong on an auditory front.
@RogerRoger Well, words only have meaning because our brains adapt to associating them with concepts. They're still just sounds we've attached meanings to, though. Which is why if you repeat a word over and over and focus on the noise it makes, you can gradually watch as your mind starts seeing it primarily as a noise. It very temporarily loses its automatic association with meaning.
Anyway, if you listen to a song in a foreign language that you're not familiar with, I assume it's the same sort of effect: vocals are perceived primarily as sound, so your brain isn't struggling with the meaning of the lyrics.
Most of NieR's music is done in a sort of fictionalized nonsense language. The voice is mostly another instrument in N:A's soundscape.
Anyway:
Listen to that and tell me you'd get anything done. The vocals in these songs command your attention.
With the news that Bravely Default is back, and Revo is doing the music again (they were absent for Bravely Second), I figured I'd post some tracks from the original.
Dunno how good the game itself will be, but the music is guaranteed to be great.
Glad the series is back. Despite my issues with the original, it feels far more like a Final Fantasy game than anything since XII has.
@RogerRoger I can't imagine you're a huge fan of most Sonic music if you don't like listening to singing. Lots of glam and nu rock in the modern 3D Sonic games.
@RogerRoger You should post other tracks you like when you get a chance. They'll be new to me, since I don't play far into 3D Sonic games.
Oh yeah, Bravely Default had gorgeous music. I'm glad the Switch can hook up to a TV, since I always felt like the sweeping soundtrack was wasted on the tiny speakers of the 3DS.
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@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy That D:OS2 track is pretty. Understated, too, so I bet it fits into the background well. Is the rest of the soundtrack similarly decent?
As to BD... yeah, the music is awesome. Although Wicked Flight always makes me clench up a bit, because the boss fight it's set to was... brutal. The game is still one of the hardest JRPGs I've ever played, weirdly enough. I even had to dial down the difficulty from Hard to Normal halfway through because I kept getting my face stomped. Never had to do that before.
@RogerRoger The emphasis on music is one of the things I love about the JRPG genre. There are SO MANY good JRPG scores.
Another favorite is the legendary Yuzo Koshiro's work on Etrian Odyssey.
For example, the often atmospheric, chilled out labyrinth themes...
...to the sexy, sometimes funky town themes...
...to the epic, violent battle and boss themes.
Sorry if I overdid it with the links. But the music in this series is seriously amazing. Even the older DS-era chiptune OSTs are fantastic. Like the boss theme for EO3, which sounds like he tried to use a Sega Genesis sound chip to compose thrash metal:
It's funny you mention Pathologic, because, just earlier, I was eyeing Pathologic 2 on Steam. It's apparently a more modern and expanded version of what the original tried to accomplish in its day (I'm a bit ashamed to say I'd never heard of it until recently, despite trying to have a thorough working knowledge of weird cult classics across the medium).
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The Nier G/R and Automata OSTs are on Spotify now along with the Yakuza games so gonna be bopping along to the disco tracks from Yakuza 0 for the foreseeable future!
@KratosMD Love a bit of Kuze, he just keeps coming back!
I’ve been listening to both the Ridge Racer Type 4 OST and the Street Fighter 3 Third Strike OST, both of which are breakbeat inspired and seriously impressive.
It really puts the Street in Street Fighter for once.
Just discovered that the Tekken arcade music slaps. I’m used to the PS1 version which has a slightly worse OST due to the bass not being as incredible.
The Silent Hill 2, 3, 4, Origins, Homecoming and Shattered Memories OSTs are on Spotify now which is brilliant because they were some of the few actually missing given that Sega, Namco, Squeenix etc have put all theirs on. Dunno why the first one isn’t there but I have it on vinyl so I’m covered on that front. Strangely, Super Mario 64, Lylat Wars and Ocarina of Time’s OSTs are on Spotify but they’re uploaded a single track at a time, I assume to avoid Nintendo taking them down. Still, I appreciate it.
@KratosMD I had no idea that The Go! Team were on Little Big Planet’s OST, that’s really cool. The album that track’s on is a weird wee album but it’s proper great.
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