Favorite Game Scores/Soundtracks

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I have a few.

A couple specific examples include the kind that when you hear them you practically can feel the other effects that would be part of the song, such as in Bloodborne, a game usually without much music, the first boss fight you have, that happens to be with the Cleric, the boss's screams feels just as much as part of the score.



One of the bosses in Hollow Knight, Grimm, is one you will very likely die to repeatedly, but it is so fantastic with its music for this one fight that it is practically difficult to get angry at taking another go. In particular I think it works how the boss treats the fight as a dance, perfectly portrayed in the music and how it actually feels to be good at these fights.



Going back to From Software, also feel compelled to mention the song for The Dancer of he Boreal Valley in Dark Souls 3. This song in particular in how it gets across this idea of beauty that is a part of the boss, I remember a video that analyzed the song to show that it is purposefully made to confuse a player who is used to the usual beats that Dark Souls has. Reflective in the movements of the boss herself who I think acts abnormally to the usual beats these bosses act in, part of a manipulation of the player in feeling uncomfortable in a way they would not be able to put their finger on.



Moving away from dark ones, I love some of the tracks in the Splatoon, especially the ones that exist in universe with their inkling language. They are in a sort of gibberish language, but they can kind of get across these sorts of emotions that can be so catchy. Nasty Majesty being one of my absolute favourites, love Pearl and Marina.



And Bayonetta, while Fly Me To The Moon is hardly a unique song to this game, the version that appears in this game is my personal favourite version of it, and is earnestly one of any song that I can find myself just randomly starting to have play in my head. Not other version, it has to be the Bayonetta version.

I mostly like listening to music from pokemon, which is also my all time favorite video game series. I find video game music relaxing and have a playlist of video game music.