Rhythm Encounter 111 – Musical Games: From Classical Composers to Singing Pirates

What defines a musical game? Videogames, and RPGs especially, are known for using a musical score to enhance the experience, so what parameters really define “musical games” and make their use of music especially notable? Today, our Rhythm panel is going on a journey to look at a wide variety of music that we feel fits into this category to tease out some of those important factors that mark a truly musical game. A game probably doesn’t have to take place in the mind of an ailing composer from our reality and include many facts about his life to be considered a musical game, but it also doesn’t hurt. We also consider musical gameplay elements, games with musician characters, and interactive music in games.

Featuring: Hilary Andreff, Patrick Gann, Wes Iliff, Jono Logan; Edited by Jono Logan

Links for this episode

• YouTube: EXEC_PAJA/.#Orica extracting (Ar tonelico) – English lyrics
• YouTube: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore – Dream☆Catcher music video

Tracklist

0:11:37 – A Pirate I Was Meant to Be (Michael Land) – The Curse of Monkey Island
0:16:08 – The Overture 2 (Pytor Illyich Tchaikovsky) – LOOM: Game Soundtrack
0:39:57 – Difficult Love Puzzle (Tenpei Sato, vocal Kaoru Fujino) – Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
0:44:40 – Dream☆Catcher (KOH) – Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
1:00:32 – Train Train (Lynda Carter, John Jarvis & Kerry Marx) – Fallout 4
1:02:42 – Setting Sail, Coming Home (Darren Korb) – Bastion
1:24:06 – Your truth is my false (Motoi Sakuraba) – Eternal Sonata
1:27:16 – EXEC_PAJA/.#Orica (comp/arr/vocal Akiko Shikata) – Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
2:00:16 – Pat’s Bonus Track!

Album Links

Hoshiyomi Ar tonelico Hymmnos concert Side Ao

• Our Review
• VGMdb

Bastion Original Soundtrack

• Our Review
• VGMdb
• Bandcamp
• iTunes Store / Apple Music
• Spotify

The Curse of Monkey Island

• YouTube (Unofficial)

Trusty Bell ~Chopin no Yume~ Original Score (Eternal Sonata)

• Our Review
• VGMdb

Fallout 4 Original Game Soundtrack Selections featuring Lynda Carter

• VGMdb
• iTunes Store / Apple Music
• Spotify

LOOM Limited Edition Compact Disc

• VGMdb

Marl Oukoku no Ningyouhime ~Original Vocal Album~ (Rhapsody)

• Our Review
• VGMdb

Genei Ibunroku #FE Vocal Collection (Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE)

• VGMdb

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