I've often spoken about how unimpressed I am with
modern video game soundtracks because of how boring and uninspired they are.
Not exact matches
It has essentially EVERYTHING your standard / substandard Mutant Reviewers from Hell reader would ever desire in a film: Michael Cera, the hot / fun «it» girls from various cult (non --RRB- smashes of recent years, a thoroughly
modern perspective towards diversity and human acceptance of differences,
video game - inspired fight scenes, an uplifting and resonate (which is to say»80s film - like) romance, and a rockin»
soundtrack.
I could go on about Uprising, such as how it features one of my favorite difficulty based mechanics or was one of the first
games I really got into StreetPassing with, or how its
soundtrack brought together the likes of Motoi Sakuraba (known for his work within the Tales series), Yuzo Koshiro (prior works including Streets of Rage and Shenmue), Masafumi Takada (the man behind the music for God Hand, the Danganronpa series and multiple
games by Suda51) to create one of my favorite
modern soundtracks in all of
video games.
[Taking a look at the Japanese fan - based Comiket (Comic Market) convention and its gigantic cache of
video game music - inspired cover albums and even books, Jeriaska continues his «Sound Current» series for Gamasutra by interviewing many of the intriguing Japanese musicians selling their unofficial tributes to classic and
modern game soundtracks.]
Deadly Premonition forgoes the jazz influence, so for this Alternate
Soundtrack video, I'll continue Swery's trend of taking ideas a few steps too far by infusing the
game with some
modern bossa nova — the samba - jazz hybrid popularized by 1964's «Girl from Ipanema.»