Lena Raine has been composing for a while now, but I feel Celeste is her moment. This game needed a soundtrack and a composer that could convey Madeline’s inner demons — her doubt, anxiety, panic and depression — and Raine absolutely nailed it. Every infectious piano and chiptune-heavy track drips with emotion and many of…
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Music – Top VGM STKs #11 – 13 – Persona 4, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
With the Top 10 finished, I’m going to do the remaining 15 as sets of three to speed through the rest of this list. Persona 4 is one of those soundtracks that come around at the right time to just floor you. At least it was for me. In 2008 when the game came out…
Music: The Last 5 Songs from my Top 100 VGM!
Finally! It’s time to put an end cap on this feature as I round out the last five songs from my Top 100 VGM! Of course, now I need to do my favorite soundtracks properly…my work is never done! lol Open the World (Part I), Culdcept, Kenji Ito, PS2, NEC/OmiyaSoft, 2002 This is a definite…
Music: Five Nintendo Selections from my Top 100 VGM
Today’s top 100 VGM post is all about Nintendo. But to keep it interesting, it’s sort of a grab bag of Nintendo tunes from five different platforms from five different series of games! Super Mario 64 – Dire Dire Docks (N64, Koji Kondo, Nintendo, 1996) This is one of my favorite tunes in all of…
Music – Four Zelda selections (plus Fire Emblem Awakening!) from my Top 100 VGM
So, I decided to put links next to all of the songs I’ve covered thus far with my documentation of my favorite VGM, and realized that hey, I have like four Zelda songs I haven’t even touched on yet, so let’s talk about them! And since I write these in groups of five, I’ll throw…
Opinion: Best NES Composers
Opinion pieces will be my take on the five best…of something. In this case, I want to share my votes for the five greatest composers for the NES hardware. 5) KONAMI KuKeiHa Club (Konami) Yes, I’m cheating slightly by including the entirety of Konami’s sensational musical staff from the 80s, so I won’t let them…
