True songs for when the end is imminent?
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True songs for when the end is imminent?
Earlier on Monday, I was taking a shower to get ready for a night out for the Bisons game later that night, and whilst I was scrubbing up, a set of much-cherished songs from Romancing SaGa III came to mind, and thus were whistled for quite some time during and after the clensing. While I was going through that track which plays during the game's final battle, however, a thought came to my mind - while I had played many a game over the years and had faced many a final boss, no track struck me as being the end-all as this one in particular. While many tracks bear within them the traits that signify them as being markers of an approaching end - Final Fantasy VII's One-Winged Angel, Dance of Illusions of the Castlevania line, and Wicked Pleasure of Ys V: Sand City of Kefin, to name but a few - none seemed to bear so heavily this sensation of dread and of woe, this premonition of absolute destruction, as did this song.
I must wonder, thus - what songs truely signal to the player, the viewer, that the end is nigh, carrying with it the fear and desolation one would only experience as though this ficticious fate were a very corporal and aproaching thing?
I must wonder, thus - what songs truely signal to the player, the viewer, that the end is nigh, carrying with it the fear and desolation one would only experience as though this ficticious fate were a very corporal and aproaching thing?
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Even though the game does not end in total destruction, there is a destruction, of sorts, one which hits you right in the gut. That's why I nominate "Maybe", from Fallout.
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YES! That was one of my favorite tracks from that game. Few songs I've heard can compare to the atmosphere it creates.Joe wrote:The Lavos music from Chrono Trigger.
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I don't have the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust music on my computer at the moment, but some of that music's damn near perfect.
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I'll second that. Or third it, as the case is. That music gave a sense that whoever won, this was the end. And the game does actually have an ending designed for both a win and a loss, which is cool. That game will always be one of my all time favorites...Joe wrote:The Lavos music from Chrono Trigger.
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Especially the alternate one, where it drops off into that soft piano. You truly get a sense of hopelessness.felineki wrote:YES! That was one of my favorite tracks from that game. Few songs I've heard can compare to the atmosphere it creates.Joe wrote:The Lavos music from Chrono Trigger.
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