What video game music are you listening to?

[Helikaon]

[Dirty Duck]

Got a bit further in Death Stranding 2 after finally getting a chance to play it and I got to hear this song. I think it's super sick to have made a mock-Showa era tokusatsu song for the BTs. It sounds so much like Akira Ifukube's Godzilla scores and really does a lot to recontextualise BTs as something that, maybe in time, could be understood rather than feared-much like many classic kaiju. But maybe I'm reading into that too much! It's a cool homage at the very least.

[Dirty Duck]

Got a bit further in Death Stranding 2 after finally getting a chance to play it and I got to hear this song. I think it's super sick to have made a mock-Showa era tokusatsu song for the BTs. It sounds so much like Akira Ifukube's Godzilla scores and really does a lot to recontextualise BTs as something that, maybe in time, could be understood rather than feared-much like many classic kaiju. But maybe I'm reading into that too much! It's a cool homage at the very least.

Just coming back to correct myself-it would seem this is a Showa era tokusatsu song. Or at the very least it's by a Showa era tokusatsu composer. I'm a bit confused as I can't find the song anywhere besides DS2 when looking online but the composer died in 2006 so it must have been made for something else. Still cool to have in the game but it's funny that I was super impressed by what I thought was a pitch-perfect homage lmao.

[Jassassino]

"This is Mr New Vegas, reminding you that you're nobody until somebody loves you - I love you."

[Dirty Duck]

[Jassassino]

Me and the boys getting ready to beat the living shit out of each other.

[Dirty Duck]

Listened to this and every other version of the song while walking around Kichijoji in Tokyo. I then went to a sushi bar at Harmonica Alley after realising I'd been in Japan for over a week and hadn't had any sushi. When I went in they asked if I wanted seated or standing. I assumed standing was less of a wait and that's why they were asking so I said standing. They then went to great effort to remove a seat from an area so I could stand between two seated customers, and so I awkwardly stood and started filling in the slip to order sushi. The seated salaryman looking up next to me asked if I came here often, which I assumed was taking the piss, but he was actually sincere. Started having a conversation with him (which was very rare during my trip, he was one of only two non-service based conversations with a local) where he recommended me a type of sushi that he felt foreigners maybe wouldn't think to try and asked questions about my trip. He asked why I'd come to Kichijoji specifically as he also felt foreigners didn't often seem to come here and I said how it was actually a recurring location in a video game series I'd played, which he found entertaining and asked which series it was and if I could show him a photo. I showed him a pic of Persona 5 Royal since he asked and he found it really interesting, while looking at the photo he said "so...Kichijoji must feel familiar to you?" And you know what? It did, actually.

[SammyIsNotCool]

Been throwing on the Shadow Hearts Covenant OST whenever someone pisses me off at work lately 



I really like the berserk versions of the battle themes, this one especially