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- Inside The Score – Chrono Trigger – Brink of Time / End of TimeSoothing nothingness We keep traversing the JRPG circuit with one of the most influential titles that distills everything about the genre and culminates the work of Square Enix. Naturally, as the game cemented many of its now cliches, we find ourselves in another weird dimension due to time travel shenanigans, a space outside the unrelenting… Read More »Inside The Score – Chrono Trigger – Brink of Time / End of Time
- Inside The Score – Final Fantasy VI – Dancing MadStairway to hell This one goes out for the masochists who want to spend their evening watching an entire opus that some other masochist painstakingly spent his time making with the primitive sound chip of the SNES (WARNING: the Visuaizer Music Tracks channel, Video Game Music Shrine and Google LLC are are not liable for… Read More »Inside The Score – Final Fantasy VI – Dancing Mad
- Inside The Score – Final Fantasy VI – Kefka’s ThemeUncomfortable laughter After spending some time with the playfully sinister circus music of the Banjo-Kazooie series, finally we arrive at a character who is the personification of that idea and actually lives up to the sinister moniker, seeing as how this nihilistic psychopath who looks like a comic-relief jester is actually one of the most… Read More »Inside The Score – Final Fantasy VI – Kefka’s Theme
- Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Cauldron KeepOminous stakes The sense of dread around the imposing tower’s lair of the villain sitting atop the highest peak of the Isle ‘o’ Hags is captured by this depressing track that receives the frantic chord change treatment of Grant Kirkhope but within a minor key context; if the C major tunes try so hard to… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Cauldron Keep
- Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Jolly Roger’s LagoonSeamen port Finally, the developers fulfilled their promise and managed to complete the legendary lost game known as Project Dream…sorta. There is a reason that game was called that since over at Rare some of its lead members always had a thing for pirate adventures, being featured on the 8-bit NES then in Donkey Kong… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Jolly Roger’s Lagoon
- Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Hailfire Peaks (Lava Side)Duality of bear The duality of man, or rather of bear and bird. Because a series based around the contrasting personalities of its main characters sooner or later had to tackle such a level; the true twin peaks. Because why waste two levels with the generic lava and ice biomes when you can get a… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Hailfire Peaks (Lava Side)
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