Kooky saloon Of course you can make a theme that is both catchy and dissonant or memorable and ugly. And by bringing back that ambiguity present in many tracks of the soundtrack even the innocent… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – Mini Game / Guessing-Game House
Holy organum Just like Saria’s Song had its older Lost Woods counterpart, A Link to the Past also had its own original church with its own short and almost forgotten cue that is only revived… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – Sanctuary / Safety in the Sanctuary
Medieval fiesta Hah! How thoughtful for a game about time travel of having the foresight to throw a fair honoring its original player base. It is a fair that sets the mood for the adventure… Read More »Inside The Score – Chrono Trigger – Guardia Millennial Fair
Soothing 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… Read More »Inside The Score – Chrono Trigger – Brink of Time / End of Time
Stairway 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… Read More »Inside The Score – Final Fantasy VI – Dancing Mad
Uncomfortable 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… Read More »Inside The Score – Final Fantasy VI – Kefka’s Theme
Seamen 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… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Jolly Roger’s Lagoon
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… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Hailfire Peaks (Lava Side)
Cursed clowns We are entering a Banjo-Kazooie spree. It seems that the respective safety authorities have been bribed since now we get to enter the famous park operated by the witch Gruntilda, who truly appears… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Tooie – Witchyworld
Everything is gonna be okie dokie Indeed, the song that lets you know everything is gonna be oki doki. A short piece of music that can instantly transport anyone as far back as 1996 to… Read More »Inside The Score – Super Mario 64 – File Select
Heavy dragon And as a bonus to complete the Bowser’s Trilogy here we got the one and only Bowser’s Theme from which all other of the dragon turtle themes sprouted. A true 70s heavy metal… Read More »Inside The Score – Super Mario 64 – Bowser’s Theme / Koopa’s Theme
Path to damnation Only the nature of Mario and specially with its early 3D rough polygon design could allow for such idiosyncratic levels that seem to come straight from the King Koopa’s nightmare. A true… Read More »Inside The Score – Super Mario 64 – Bowser’s Road / Koopa Road