As for Yakuza, from what I can remember from Kiwami 1 I did like. The battle music was good, but this was the first track I think of from Kiwami 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWoYxtw8490
I also already have my favorite from Yakuza 0. Too bad that you're not supposed to hear it due to the circumstances in gameplay- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9PPlq4rOB0
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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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I listened to a few of the Cold Steel tracks you posted @KratosMD specifically "Tie a Link of ARCUS", "Don't be Defeated by a Friend" & "To Gamble All or Nothing"
... Not gonna listen to anymore as those are really great! Don't wanna spoil anymore of the soundtrack til I get to play them myself, especially if it's for a very pivotal scene!
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.
Not only is this featured heavily in the Witcher III but thanks to Geralt's inclusion in Soul Calibur VI it's also the theme for the rather neat Kaer Morhen stage and slightly remixed compared to the original
And since I've ended up humming it all morning and last night
Turns out Priscilla (in the english version at least) is voiced by Tom Hiddleston's (Loki in Thor/Avengers) sister Emma Hiddleston (both singing and normal dialogue)... Rather lovely moment in game while it lasts...
Lastly... I'll eventually get back to DS II: SotFS... so here's an instrumental piece that I've never really listened to fully til now.
It's a shame the boss fight ends up being easy by the time I usually get round to it as the music for it really is quite invigorating
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@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.
You're very welcome @Arugula though I didn't really do anything 😁
Well so far I only know of the two Samurai tracks (The in game band that Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves' character) was in) for Cyberpunk @Ralizah that are performed by a swedish punk rock band called Refused.
I quite like them though... Never Fade Away more so then Chippin' In
The Folk(?) music of Witcher is rather good as a whole... But I'll admit if Cyberpunk has some neat rock music like that through the majority of the game I'll especially be quite pleased...
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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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Haven't played Bravely Default myself @Ralizah... Those tracks are rather good though! Wicked Flight in particular but Love's Vagrant and the prelude are also quite good
... That Sonic Forces track you put up last week is rather good too @RogerRoger which I'll admit is more of a surprise to me as I only really remember the main themes from the Sonic games I've played 😂
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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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That Crisis City track is rather great! And so is Sea Bottom Segue. Love it. I'll admit I'm a sucker for string instruments in particular and both of them have a great melody 😁
I'd say so @Ralizah. As you put it's quite understated and most of the tracks I've heard so far (I've only heard a few and don't wish to spoil anything) share a similar sort of understated approach at the moment.
I said before when I posted some screenshots from this in the respective thread that you even get to choose an instrument (out of a Bansuri, Tambura, Oud or Cello) in the character creation and from a quick peak there are a number of song/themes that have alternate versions to go along with this choice so... Certainly be interesting to hear those alternate versions when I get to it!
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