30 day video game music challenge!

Day 12 (Music that makes you sad): Moon on the Water (Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony)

I very nearly put an Undertale song here instead but then I remembered this song existed! I'm pretty sure I've actually cried while listening to this song before. It's a very simple sounding song at first, but the longer you listen, the more melancholic it gets. And wow does this song really hurt you when it's played in-game...
 
im not always the most emotional person so im a bit hard pressed to find music that makes me genuinely sad. but that being said, i'm gonna have to pull from a series that i'm partially surprised to have not drawn from yet, which is ace attorney! AA has a lot of "Reminiscence" themes, which are songs which play during cases when the (usually dark/sad) backstory of a particular event or character is being told. There's a lot of them to choose from, but for some reason the one that always sticks with me is Reminiscence ~ Wandering Heart from Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. I'm not sure why this one sticks with me so much all these years later. I don't particularly care for the game, case or characters involved anymore, but I just remember it really sticking out to me when i first played the game, and it's one that i won't forget for a long time. I think I just like the melody and the instrumentation, its sound oozes with sadness even without really remembering the context of what people were sad about

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day 13: music you like from a game you dont like
honestly? i cant really think of one game i didnt actually like. maybe ill go through with music from a game i enjoyed overall but just not nearly as much as the others in the series?
which i meant rayman 2. oh my god sorry for dissing rayman 2 again but theres one song in uhhh the sanctuary of water and ice? i thought it was a bop. i think it was that its been a while since i last played it
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Rayman 2 Soundtrack - The Sanctuary of Water and Ice

Rayman 2 reminded me so much of the old days where games relied mostly on fun. Rayman 2 has all the qualities of an old snes game coupled with great graphics...
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Day 13: Music you like from a game you don't like [Hard Mode]

Mario Kart Wii's Rainbow Road. I hold the unpopular opinion disliking this game because
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i only played mario kart wii and i dislike that game because:
  • there was no story
  • the graphics were fine but not good
  • the music was decent but not great
  • there were no notably unique characters and the only new character is baby daisy, who i don't like
so basically, the only appeal the game would have to me is the gameplay

and i didn't like that because literally the only thing it has to it is drive around in a car, pick up a thing to slow other people down, hope it doesn't go against you, and don't bump the sides.

sure maybe it was exciting as a 7 year old but games like mario party 9 have a racing minigame that has the core thing of what makes mario kart good and 10000000000000000000x more variety and interesting content. so yeah
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However this piece of music feels really magical and that's why it's probably my best pick for this, even I weren't doing Hard Mode.

  • Donkey Kong Country Returns
  • Super Mario 3D World
  • Super Mario Maker 1
  • Super Paper Mario
  • Paper Mario TTYD
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2
  • Minecraft
  • Lego Indiana Jones 2
  • Bowser's Inside Story
  • Angry Birds
  • Super Mario Galaxy 1
  • Mario Kart Wii
 
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Day 12 - Music that makes you sad

Mario Kart Wii (Credits 1) - I'm not really emotional when listening to songs, but I though that this time was beautiful for what it is. As a credits tune, it sounds amazing, this is what I would expect to hear after clearing Rainbow Road.


Day 13 - Music I like from a game I don't like

Mario's Time Machine - I haven't played this game, but it's so universally hated, and rightfully so. But the title screen music is so catchy and when I first heard it, I was amazed by how much I liked it.
 
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Day 13: Music you like from a game you don't like

usually nowadays before buying a game i look at reviews online to see if it's good. which is why most games i have are good and i don't hate any of them. however there are games i don't like because of what they represent, like banjo kazooie nuts and bolts. i never played that game (and i shouldnt ig), but it did ruin a franchise i really like. but grant kirkhope composed the soundtrack, and everything grant makes is good.
honestly i really like all the music in this game, but this song is better than the others in my opinion. sure, it's a remix of older bk songs, but it was really well done and somehow makes me feel nostalgic, even though i never even knew about banjo kazooie until i was a teenager. it pretty much perfectly represents the banjo franchise as a whole.
 
So originally I considered Other M for this day, but then I went through and I realized none of its music really jumped out at me. Jc's right, Other M's just Not Good on a soundtrack level.

So instead!

Day 13: Po-Wahi - Bionicle: Matoran Adventures

Matoran Adventures is probably the very definition of Generic Licensed GBA Platformer. It's not badly made or anything, but it's just... there. It existed because they wanted a GBA platformer for Bionicle, to the point of just palette swapping most things. I still have it but I have no energy to dust it off. Music's good though! I could recommend several tracks from it, but I ultimately settled on the exploration-based theme of Po-Wahi. This theme carries a strong sense of exploration, mixed with adversity. This is exploration where the environment itself is out to get you, and I like it!

Now if only the gameplay matched the music, ehehehe.
 
Day 13 - Music you like from a game you don't like: Nights of Azure - Floral Crown

Honestly this is probably the game that convinced me to stop buying games based on their soundtracks because there were a lot of good songs but damn this game sucks. Not that it hasn't worked out before, I played the trails series because I heard a few songs first and got interested but it didn't work as well for this game. Honestly it's not that different in technical quality than Atelier games are; also made by Gust, but Atelier can get away with it because they don't need to be very demanding and are also wholesome and make me feel good.