YO JUNKBOT
i completely forgot about this until i saw the video title, damn
this wasn't featured in the game, but it is still a bit weird to us that one of our favorite songs of last year came from league of legends of all things
this rules and kinda makes me wish i hadn't stopped playing poe1 before 3.0
PoE 1&2 are a special interest of ours and the soundtrack continues to be one of the many things that rules about them.
What A Mario World's OST was such a surprise late last year.
I found it through this arrangement of the athletic theme, which is probably my favorite, but the whole OST is a delight.
Build a little world with me always KILLS me. It's part of a short list of songs that I love, but hardly listen to because of the emotional damage, like Porter Robinson's Goodbye To A World.
I really love the music from the Etrian Odyssey series, composer Yuzo Koshiro is extremely talented at writing serene and jazzy overworld and town themes as well as dramatic and awesome battle themes. I made a dedication playlist a few years back, which has a sampling from most of the games and some remix albums:
Let's go for something mellow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3RyclXs6Qg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI1X9_no8sk
https://youtu.be/GoYJXzzNQgo?si=2X1sYxJUyHu8z7v6
I recently revisited older Colin McRae Rally titles and realised how good music they had AND that they were all composed by the same guy. So here are some of my favourites.
Intro version because it’s cool and because nostalgia XD
Another amazing intro (there is an extended version but I like this one better).
I love the minimalist visuals and how different it is. It is a nice clouseure to this super clean style that the early Colin McRae games had.
Btw this graphic style is also implemented throughout the game.
Also only now I realised that it is dynamic, as in, depending on what is on screen, parts of the soundtrack will change, adding or completely muting some instruments.
Kenshi
Game itself is amazing, but I think the soundtrack is the thing that really sells the beautifully haunting atmosphere of the deserted, desolate moon.
Also here are more sounds from the game, if someone is interested how it actually sounds in game. I wouldn’t say it is enjoyable on its own, but maybe some of you will find it interesting.
pretty much all of moss 2's soundtrack is pretty good but this song in particular hits me a certain way im not sure how to describe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQkDLq8t6fA&list=PLA-S_iErwwwRHtfMod0T_3O0TmFn2--Td&index=3
Also while it's fresh in my memory i think portal's soundtrack is often overlooked [1]
save obviously for Jonoathan Coultons songs ↩︎
Please enjoy a little collection of "Video game music that goes hard from games not enough people played"
We somewhat recentlyish tried out a game called othercide and while we feel like we ought to give it more of a go at some point, the music was something that immediately stood out to us:
Hardspace Shipbreaker has some of the best "getting shit done" music I've ever heard. If I gotta focus on something, it's my go to. I've made a LOT of 3d models in autocad with it blasting.
when our older kid was still an infant, we used to rock them in our arms and sing this song to them to put them to sleep. it's beautiful and it still makes us cry, and while we listen to the duet recording from the Songs of Supergiant album more often the original still has that place in our heart
. . . but while we're on supergiant songs
In Circles got us through a lot of really tough periods in our life, and is still one that helps us feel less alone when it feels like we can't keep up with what we need to do
Never to Return captures a lot of the feeling of weightiness and consequence that we like from metal music (without being as likely to scare our kids)
and then most of the hades soundtrack but especially Out of Tartarus just straight up is that feeling of weightiness we like from metal but it definitely scares the kids :p
and then uh . . . we'll just leave this