{"id":1944,"date":"2011-01-18T00:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T06:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2011-01-17T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T21:24:45","slug":"game-music-is-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"Game Music is Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on two games. One is Ghost Trick, a completely fantastic game in its own right and I&#8217;m sure to ramble on about forever once I finish it, and Kirby&#8217;s Epic Yarn. Both games are awesome, but currently I&#8217;m kind of blown away by both of their soundtracks. So I&#8217;m going to share some.<\/p>\n<p>Ace Attorney had some great music in it, that really made the game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eaLY9HabUtQ&#038;feature=related\">feel<\/a> more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VXqTpVfazdQ&#038;feature=related\">dramatic<\/a> than, perhaps, the gameplay actually was. Ghost Trick, while being a better game over all, continues that tradition.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously, just listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bXXrpgpWJQY\">this<\/a>. When this music kicks in, and the person you&#8217;re trying to save is about to die, shit gets REAL. It&#8217;s always amazing what they can do with the limited sound hardware of stuff like this. I always have such respect when a song really gets me going when I play a game.<\/p>\n<p>On a different sort of note, though, the music in Epic Yarn just perfectly fits the game. It doesn&#8217;t really get you going, but it&#8217;s just so cute and so right. I mean, just listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lYzgyXzPFhY&#038;feature=related\">this<\/a>. This music is played when you&#8217;re on the race car levels. It&#8217;s flat-out fantastic. A great piano piece that&#8217;s fun and upbeat, but still fitting the cutesy look of the game. It&#8217;s simple, but solid. The game is willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fj2vxN05zAc&#038;feature=related\">mix it up<\/a>, too, when the time is right, but in general it keeps it simple, and often goes back to the piano on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lmRvq5SSNhg&#038;feature=channel\">the very next level<\/a>. It really helps set the tone for the game just as much as the neat Yarn visuals do.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a time when game music fucking rocks. I love it when a game takes the time to take its music into account when creating. It&#8217;s just&#8230; effective. It certainly keeps me listening as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on two games. One is Ghost Trick, a completely fantastic game in its own right and I&#8217;m sure to ramble on about forever once I finish it, and Kirby&#8217;s Epic Yarn. Both games are awesome, but currently I&#8217;m kind of blown away by both of their soundtracks. So I&#8217;m going to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}