12/3/2023 0 Comments Myst video game soundtrackSteve Vancouver of the VGM Moments podcast helped pick out some properly sinister tracks as part of our Halloween game music round-up.Akira Yamaoka’s industrial noise for the Silent Hill series). There are a few different flavours of ‘darkness’ in games (as in other fictional mediums), for instance: ‘ unseen evil lurking in a slimy dungeon’, soundtracked by low bass notes and ethereal scraping noises (as with Jessica Curry’s Amnesia track below) frenzied battles with horrific foes which require more aggressive, percussion-led tracks (like some of Garry Schyman’s stuff from BioShock Infinite) and then the barely-listenable dread racket of psycho-horror (e.g. This mood is pretty straightforward - if a track makes you want to hide behind the sofa and cower in terror, it belongs here. “Mandus Awakes” by Jessica Curry from Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Also Andrew Hale’s incredible jazz score for L.A.Shout out to Normand Corbeil’s (R.I.P.) score for Heavy Rain, particularly Redemption.
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