Finally did that 30 day videogame music challenge thing!
... This thing :O
I'm gonna thread this thing, so it doesn't spam everyone, and i uh... I'm gonna post one a day rather than... all thirty at once because hahahahaahaha nobody needs THAT flooding their timeline.
So feel free to click back through the thread. Each day's entry will be titled with what it is too, so hence no alt-text on this one.
30 day videogame music challenge thread!
1: Title screen music - Gunstar Heroes - Legend of the Gunstars holy fuck what a title music seriously goddamn. Just... sets up the mood perfectly for the game, and just... everything about that soundtrack is pure gold too, and the game too. Play it if you haven't already, I heartily recommend it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBevYPzaBA0
30 day videogame music challenge thread! Day 2
2: Opening level music - StarFox/Wing - Corneria. When I first played this game, it was like magic. I adored it. I rarely got to play it unless I was at a friends' house and they happened to have both a SNES and StarWing but fuck it, I still loved it. It was the first game I played when I started emulating games in the 2000s. Hell, I got ZSNES purely so I COULD play Starfox on my pc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBD3FO6ozXc
30 day videogame music challenge thread! Day 3
8 bit music - Bet you thought I was gonna take the easy route and go with Wily Castle stage 2 from Megaman 2 huh? hahahaa, naaaah not happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXxMDlwfbI Ninja Gaiden 2 - Battling Precariously motha fuckaaaaas. ... Though truth told I only actually first played this with Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES Emulations. Brutally hard game, but that track stuck with me since then. Snes version doesn't add much more tbqh, but still good.
30 day videogame music challenge thread! Day 4
Console Exclusive Series - Scott Pilgrim Vs The World - Suburban Tram. Honestly, that game had such an amazing soundtrack and it's bloody criminal it hasn't been rereleased on other platforms than Xbox 360 and PS3 and is no longer available. Anamanaguchi pulled an absolute blinder with this soundtrack, blending chiptunes and conventional instruments, as they always do, in a wonderful soundscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YCMBIgvFTc
30 day VGM thing, oh shit it's day 5 :O
Hub/Overworld music - Val Harbour is kinda the main hub of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate? You spend like, 90% of the story there in any case, with small trips to the other couple of areas, but mostly you'll be in Val Harbour instead. I love this track even now, and MH4U was my first Monster Hunter game. I played the hell outta it. Though MHW has spoiled me now. I can't go back to that old armour system ^^; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYg_38oZP9A
30 day VGM thing, day siiiiixxxxx (getting this out the way early today)
Music with a relaxing vibe - El Huervo - Daisuke, from Hotline Miami 1. Something about this wonderfully chilled, lo-fi track reminds me of sitting in a quiet laundromat in Tokyo, doing some loads of laundry. The only thing missing from that time was it not being late at night as well because this song fits that so well too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6po2Za_18
30 day VGM thing, day lucky number seven
Indie Game - Receiver/Receiver 2 - A Slow Mindkill : This track just... FUCK it's good. It's tense, it's atmospheric, it's pulse pounding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWnYzu_KyY The Receiver 2 version "A Slow Mindkill: Mindkiller" is great too and ranks equally for me, though they have different feels. 2's is less pulse pounding, still tense as heck, but calmer, more measured, less harried.
30 day VGM thing, EIGHT.
Shooter (1st or 3rd Person) - Doom 2 "Bye Bye American Pie", AKA "Barrels O' Fun" AKA "Bobby Prince covering Alice In Chains' Dem Bones" :3 Still my favourite Doom track ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z81virrz6TY
30 day VGM thing, (bonus round for day 8)
this cover of it rocks too :D (CW, gameplay of Doom 2 so you know, first person guns, violence, blood, gore, demons, flashing lights, and kinda wicked sick guitar riffs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGY_DiTnbk aaaand for the people who REALLY want the original, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFgAE5SgFnw ;3
30 day VGM thing, oh balls somehow i missed three days the fuck. day 9?
Licensed game - fuck I don't really play any licensed games, but I guess the original N64 Goldeneye counts. Facility is the one I remember the most.... realising now as well that the scott pilgrim game is technically also licensed. whups, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMCy3IZAQE
30 day VGM thing, belated day 10
RPG battle music - hahahhahaha you fuckin' KNEW this was gonna come up but fuckin' RUDE BUSTER from Deltarune because GODDAAAAAMMNN yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dRVuXYmB1M
30 day VGM thing, belated day 11, spam over! It's been a weird week D:
Puzzle Game - "Sync" from Fez by Disasterpeace. though the Synch version from the Fez: Side F album is the version you more likely actually hear in the game, and just... ffffuckkk it's so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Y_D7kwZpI
30 day VGM thing, day 12 hhhh
Sad music - Final Fantasy X-2 - Eternity: Memory of Lightwaves - This is the opening credits/prelude theme for FFX-2, and while I've not played it, I love this particular song. Something about it just sparks such a melancholy feeling in me, it's beautiful too and I can just listen to it over and over. I love it. Honestly my favourite final fantasy track ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ee_Ez6tFk
30 day VGM thing, day 13 because I forgot about this thread again bleh
A game I don't like: Lucky 13 eh? Final Fantasy 8 is a game I just cannot ever get on with. I dislike its characters, the gameplay, the story, the aesthetics, the world, just... everything about it sucks imo, but I can't deny it has some great music. Balamb Garden for me is my favourite. It's such a nice, relaxing tune! I really like it, very peaceful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eU0tRBHnE0
30 day VGM thing, day 14
Vocals - Yakuza 0 - Reign . just... the fuckin' epitome of badass fight musics holy shit. Gosh damn. Guess it helps that it's one of the key final battles when you're playing as Majima, if memory serves. God I need to play that game again I loved it to bits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACUhXbJyz3o
30 day VGM thing, day 15, missed a day due to ill
boss battle - shit i shoulda used Reign for this one lol. ah well. No I'm not gonna do Megalovania that's just too easy, and besides, that's not Sans's boss music, is it? ;3 No, for this one I'm going with Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Final Boss music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0BsDuS3xlY . Also, I'm not gonna lie, the Sonic Generations 3ds version of this very track, Big Arms, is absolutely incredible so I'll link that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVQjrIcwyEg
30 day VGM thing, day 16 too
16 bit - aaaah fuck and I already used Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Ah well, time to post somethin' unexpected again I guess. Streets of Rage 3 - Dub Slash! SOR3's OST gets a lotta flack for being so unconventional as well as a massive departure from the previous two games, but I loved it all the way through. Dub Slash is my favourite, with The Poets II coming a close second. https://youtu.be/ATM5EptuGxA
30 day VGM thing, day 17
A song I never get tired of - Die Anywhere Else from Night in the Woods - An absolutely incredible game and this particular track was my absolute fuckin' favourite. It was a joy to play in the minigame, and there's an incredible cover by MandoPony on youtube of it. CW - Death mention in the lyrics for it, flashing lights in at least one of the video, semi-eyecontact as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3EKPTyUl0I . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kYTe25h-bU
30 day VGM thing, day 18
Released in Birth Year - okay I redid this one because I don't feel like outing my birth year, I've already shown my age enough so far ._.; instead let's go back to the first bit of vg music I ever remembered and loved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os57CXh6COw Robocop's title music for the Spectrum (128K version, gotta love that AY chip!), by Jonathan Dunn. The GB game used the same track, and you might ALSO be going "and on and Ariston" in your head like I still constantly do because aaa
30 day VGM thing, day 19
Cover of music by another artist - I THINK this is to do with a song from a videogame that you like the COVER version of, I guess... hm. In which case, "Dream of a Rabbit Singing in the Night" by Undead Corporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGSnW2bK2cY Touhou has some great music but not a lot is super listenable to me? But this version of Reisen's theme is absolutely incredible, vocals and all. Wonderful blend of electric guitars and traditional instruments.
30 day VGM thing, day 20 because i missed a day heck
Racing game - Splash Wave from Outrun, of course! The original, the best, my absolute favourite out of that game, and even when I play other racing games... I'm still thinkin' 'bout Outrun. Can't help it! I don't think I've found a version of Splash Wave I don't like honestly. (that is not a challenge please ;w; ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdSDIw8uTxo
30 day VGM thing, day 21
Associated with Frustration - everything on this goddamn list now lol. Realtalk though, the OG Pokemon battle music... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jmty_NiaXc though this goes for ALL JRPG battle musics. I. HATE. random encounters. It is so jarring, and startles me sometimes, and also just... TOTALLY breaks my flow. Ugh. This might be why I can't even play FF7 these days now. :<
30 day VGM thing, day 23
Underrated - Hoooo fuck, how do you judge whether something is underrated or not?? Honestly for me it's probably Rage Racer on the PS1 by Namco. Specifically the track Silver Stream from it. https://youtu.be/TDIPGQWedvo Such a fuckin good ass jam, amazing beats, amazing melody, surprisingly relaxing for what is meant to be a high octane racing game lol. I probably like it so much because it reminds me of Outrun, but yeah, I played the shit outta Rage Racer.
30 day VGM thing, day 24 how do i keep missing days wtf.
Constantly stuck in my head - "It's So Wonderful" from The World Ends With You. fuck, this is my default ringtone still tbqh. Because I'm a fuckin' NEERRRDDDDDDDDDDD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mjkjBelEM
30 day VGM thing, day 25
Pumped - Restoring the Light, Facing the Dark, from Ori and the Blind Forest. My favourite track in the entire game, and BY GOD it's incredible. It just doesn't go on for long enough ;w; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcuEVjS6urk
30 day VGM thing, day 26
Game not played - ...Okay I'm... super torn on this one, but I thiiiink I'm gonna go with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ajMG0bxtXY "awnglier maguielaw elir" which is from a Tsukihime visnov game.
I... have never played a visnov game really, unless the Phoenix Wright games and VA11-Hall-A count. I have never played a single Tsukihime game either. I like, watched an OAV of it I think once? It was... underwhelming I guess?
But I do adore this tune so much, it's beautiful.
30 day VGM thing, day 26 (Bonus round)
my other choice was Port Town from Wild Arms. Really lovely, chill tune, I could just... listen to it forever honestly. https://youtu.be/lBEvtA4Uuwk very chill. Great spaghetti western styled music. Shame it's an old JRPG so I'll never play it lol e-e;
30 day VGM thing, day 27
Handheld - ...would it be cheating to say Pokemon Sword and Shield's Battle Tower theme, the one by Toby Fox? I feel like it might be cheating. ... ah fuck it, the Switch is pretty much a handheld console through and through really. It just happens to be able to be played as a tv console. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvm5yDtaGiY . Honestly both Marnie and Bede have amazing fuckin' tracks when you battle them too, that whole game had great music, really.
30 day VGM thing, day 28
Nostalgic - Sadly we're in "Problematic Fav" territory here. :| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jczIOUqFTWc Bear A Grudge's title/main theme music, by J.Dave Rogers. A (not wholly bad) Space Harrier clone for the spectrum made for the Sinclair User magazine featuring their mascot character. The poster of the video's comment in the description is right on the money for what said character is named. Yikes. Good tune tho.
30 day VGM thing, day 29
Final Boss - Megaman Zero 4 - Falling Down. GOD but I loved this series of games, and this still to me is one of my favourite Final Boss themes EVER. Not just because of the music but because of the story that lead to this point, and the ending of said story too. Megaman Zero was a great series of games, don't @ me. https://www.youtu.be/5UNTW8hFcpk This is the official remastered version from "Rockman Zero - Physis".
(here's a p.good metal cover too :3 https://youtu.be/BbIwmXbaDY8 )
30 day VGM thing, day 30 WE FINALLY DONE
Credits - DUST an Elysian Tale credits, "Gone Home (Journey's End)". The game wasn't spectacular, but it was a joy to play and it was really lovely. BEAUTIFULLY drawn and animated, and the soundtrack by Hyperduck Soundworks was really good. This ending theme though is just... it's incredibly beautiful and melancholy and sad, and yet hopeful and wondrous. It never fails to bring a smile to my face when I hear it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhTjoLo_6xE
So yeah, finally done with the 30 day vg music meme thing. Feel free to scroll back through this to check 'em out, maybe give a few a listen, licommenscribe or whatever the kids say these days.
re: 30 day VGM thing, day 21
@Nine more and more jrpgs don't use random encounters now though!
re: 30 day VGM thing, day 21
@Felthry I noticed, and I VERY deeply appreciate it. Part of why I could complete Pokémon sword I think!
30 day VGM thing, day 22
Town/village - This was a tough one to remember, but "Together Always" from Secret of Mana on the SNES. Lovely bouncy tune! https://youtu.be/uA-D1Tf6H6Q And a great fun game too. Wonderful blend of action and RPG elements, and sure it's a little rough around the edges in gameplay and story, but it's still a great fun game with BEAUTIFUL backgrounds. The sequel, otherwise known as Trials of Mana now amps that up to 11 in many cases.