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by Richard
April 26th, 2021, 8:40 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The Sound of Play submission thread

I played "Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus" back at their respective launches, but it's been over four years since "The Last Guardian" came out, and I've just gotten around to completing it. The criticisms leveled against this divisive game are easily justified, as some...
by Richard
April 19th, 2021, 11:15 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The Sound of Play submission thread

With a silly title like "There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension," I was expecting some off the wall meta commentary and plenty of pop cultural references. What I was not expecting was the amount of cleverness, polish, and heart this game delivers. On its face, it's a light-hearted point and cli...
by Richard
April 15th, 2021, 12:53 am
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The Sound of Play submission thread

I can't believe it took me this long to play "The Talos Principle," Croteam's excellent atmospheric puzzle game. It came out more than six years ago, but still feels fresh, immersive, and relevant. The (very deliberate) mood of an abandoned MMO world fits the current epoch like a glove. Al...
by Richard
March 24th, 2021, 6:01 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The Sound of Play submission thread

If there's one accusation no one can level against "Later Alligator," it's being short on charm. This short indie point and click adventure from SmallBü is like playing through a mash up of WarioWare minigames and an old lost New Grounds flash animation. While it's not very complicated or ...
by Richard
March 2nd, 2021, 7:21 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The Sound of Play submission thread

There was something for everyone in Nintendo's first Direct in ages back in February 2021, but nothing got me more excited than the immediate drop of the meaty (and awkwardly titled) Project TRIANGLE STRATEGY debut demo. While it will be quite some time until the game releases, I was happy to get my...
by Richard
February 8th, 2021, 7:47 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The Sound of Play submission thread

I just finished a play through of Cyber Shadow, Mechanical Head Studios' love letter to hardcore ninja side scrollers. Being published by Yacht Club Games was enough to make this a day one purchase for me, but I was impressed with how polished the game was, being developed mostly by a one-person tea...
by Richard
November 16th, 2020, 10:24 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

I just wrapped up a play through of Horace, one of the most remarkable narrative platformers I have ever experienced. Made by a team of just two people, the game's core mechanics are somewhere between Super Meat Boy and Teslagrad, but it quickly blossoms into an expansive Metroidvania, with a mixtur...
by Richard
October 6th, 2020, 6:39 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

I have started playing some spooky games this month, kicking off with Paratopic, a short, experimental walking sim that looks like a cursed PS One game and feels like a dream recounted by David Lynch. The brief playtime (coming in at under an hour), disjointed narrative, and lack of traditional game...
by Richard
September 14th, 2020, 7:09 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

I just completed "Moon: Remix RPG Adventure," the recent rerelease of a 23 year old PlayStation One game, which is now seeing its first localization outside of Japan. Although there are progressive elements which no doubt pushed boundaries when it came out, its obscure core mechanics, ofte...
by Richard
August 31st, 2020, 6:11 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

I just finished my first play through of "The Longing," a point and click idle game that runs in real time. You take on the role of The Shade, who is tasked with waking an ancient stone king after waiting 400 long days in isolation. Each day is yours to command, and you can decide to explo...
by Richard
August 17th, 2020, 7:56 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

Amanita Design is well known for its beautiful point and click adventure games, and their newest release, "Creaks," fits right in with the rest of their work. Though the mechanics are a bit of a departure, more of a puzzle platformer this time around, the art design, atmosphere, and tone o...
by Richard
July 22nd, 2020, 10:49 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

One review of Paper Mario: The Origami King I read described it as the video game equivalent of "a distracting beach read." While it isn't the series revelation Odyssey is, and probably won't win over fans who want more hardcore RPG mechanics, I've found it to be a light, fun (and remarkab...
by Richard
June 29th, 2020, 8:19 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

Usually, I wait until the dark days of Autumn to dip into spooky games, but once in a while one grabs my attention and I can't wait until then to try it out. Somehow I missed The Shrouded Isle, released way back in 2017, a creepy, nauseating game where you play the role of a tyrannical leader of a v...
by Richard
June 9th, 2020, 11:04 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

Over the past few rocky months, I have managed to take a few minutes each day to putter around my own private island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I know some people are spending hundreds of hours tricking out their villages with promenades and piazzas and going full bore on playing the stalk ma...
by Richard
May 6th, 2020, 1:25 am
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

Here's one more hyper-nostalgic piece before I return to the present. At first blush, Stories Untold might seem like some sort of Stranger Things ripoff. However, after the opening credit scroll (which I had to check to make sure wasn't the actual theme from Stranger Things), what I found was one of...
by Richard
April 21st, 2020, 6:53 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

In Sound of Play 245, Leon and Tom were discussing racing games, anxiety, and nostalgia, and immediately this track from 198X jumped into my mind. While I understand there are pitfalls to looking back too far or rose-tinting the past, this short indie game transported me back to my early years where...
by Richard
April 3rd, 2020, 12:01 am
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

Maybe it's the current global climate, but I have been on a real '80s nostalgia escapism kick lately. Underneath, Slayaway Camp is a sliding block puzzle game; however, the charm and attention to detail in the theming goes beyond mere tropes, and really captures the essence of what it was like for m...
by Richard
January 24th, 2020, 11:38 pm
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

I have been spending the first part of 2020 trying to tackle my backlog, which includes "AI: The Somnium Files," Kotaro Uchikoshi's bizarre visual novel adventure game. Its slow moving plot and strange gameplay mixed with the most juvenile, prurient jokes possible make it a hard recommenda...
by Richard
June 24th, 2019, 6:51 am
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

I first became acquainted with the world of SteamWorld playing SteamWorld Dig on the 3DS. After that, I was sold on purchasing anything put out by Swedish video game developer Image & Form. I played Dig 2 at launch, but didn't get around to SteamWorld Heist until recently. The turn-based steampu...
by Richard
July 26th, 2018, 4:23 am
Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
Topic: The videogame music thread
Replies: 1260
Views: 1575822

Re: The videogame music thread (also Sound of Play submissions)

My favorite moments in any video game come at the eye of the storm, where all the chaos and drama and tension is suspended for a brief time. Whether its the save room in Resident Evil games, or that moment in "The Last of Us" right before everything goes to hell, these special moments alwa...