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Finally listening to the music from the sequel to a game that had one of my favorite soundtracks of 2019. The original had several different styles of music but was broadly a mix of chill, downtempo tracks with good chords and tense, ambient, electronic puzzle room music with cool sound design. I never really made this connection before now, but it has a similar feel to Takeshi Abo’s Science Adventure series stuff that I just posted, though I’d say it’s more varied and gets more aggressive.
nirvanA Initiative’s soundtrack doesn’t change the formula that much, besides having a few more completely random tracks stylistically that must accompany some highly specific event, so naturally I think this one is great as well. It also has some tracks that get much weirder than the original, and I want you to know that I had a hard time not posting the weird as hell tracks exclusively but resisted for the sake of variety.
Recommended tracks:
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“Kusemon Battle 4” (Asada) is a throwback JRPG battle theme
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“Loving Nostalgia” (Ito) is a warm & friendly melodic track
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“Residence Limo” (Ito) is a weird remix of one of my favorite tracks from the first game, “Automobile Interior”
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“Nonentity Incognito” (Ito) is one of those aggressive tracks I was talking about
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“796f756b6e6f7765766572797468696e67” (Ito) is, okay, this is going to come across as really conceited so I want to make it clear that I’m not saying that Keisuke Ito ripped me, an extremely obscure nobody on the internet, off, but the encoded title (it’s hexadecimal ASCII codes) and short random audio bursts moving around the stereo field remind me of this cursed audio toy I made two years ago with an encoded title that creates tapestries of short random audio bursts moving around the stereo field
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