Aisle #26 - Too Much Funky
I’ve been on a soundtrack downloading fix again lately, grabbing as many soundtracks as I could for as many games as I could think of, and many I’ve never heard of. I love game soundtracks, filling my Zune with them almost exclusively.
Some of my favorite games to play were only pursued because I found a track from the game that I really enjoyed, or the entire soundtrack stood out, and some games were avoided altogether initially for an offensive or boring soundtrack. The World Ends With You has been out for a little while now, and people seem to be rushing to download its soundtrack, but I personally found its generic J-Pop and crazy… I guess it would be considered something hip-hop like? I’m not sure how to categorize it, so I’ll just file that one under “I’ll Pass.”
Arkanoid DS however, has several amazing songs that I wasn’t expecting from the game, with superb sound quality to boot. I’ve been indulging in the likes of the soundtracks of German Shmup DoveZ by Boris Nonte and my old favorite arrangement of Iridion 2 and 3D’s soundtrack by Manfred Linzner. While I primarily lean towards energetic, electronic style music, I’m a sucker for Yoko Shimomura’s earlier works and loads of Uematsu’s works. Then again, everybody likes Uematsu…
I’m a huge fan of remix soundtracks, but for some reason I don’t find most of Overclocked Remix’s archives entertaining. Remixes from the likes of Mintjam and Levo Lution tend to feel more, I dunno, lively without being the aural equivalent of lens flares and motion blurs everywhere. SSH has some cool stuff going as well, but a lot of their work seems very MIDI-like in nature, and he overdoes the distortion guitar.
Sonic games are usually guaranteed to have a great soundtrack, but lately the music has been as bad as the games themselves, with the exception of the instrumental version of Sonic ’06’s His World and Sonic Rush Adventure’s soundtrack. The Mana and SaGa series both seem to have musical quality that is inversely proportional to the quality or at least the popularity of their respective games. That said, I can’t get enough of Unlimited SaGa and Saga Frontier 2’s music, and Children of Mana has a fairly catchy set of tunes. In my searches for new music to listen to, I don’t know how I managed to overlook Rayman’s soundtrack. Rayman 2 had a mostly ambient type of music going for it, but Rayman’s soundtrack is superb.
Hm. I probably should have prepared a drawing for this post or something. Unfortunately, school is still going, and I’ve gotta get back to work. This is my first entry using the Windows Live Writer that has been on my computer gathering dust for all this time- if nothing goes wrong, Live Writer is going to be my method of choice for updates.
One Response to “Aisle #26 - Too Much Funky”
Now you’re just updating too often!
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