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i had a lot of fun with Heroes and the music was less to my taste than the others, so maybe not Heroes
i did have fun playing SA2 and Shadow but having music i enjoy tends to enhance a game for me so i'm not sure how much of my enjoyment was attributable to the music, given i know the games themselves got criticized a lot
this song played only on the most evil route possible, while you directly attacked a human military base, having already blown up the White House using the Eclipse Cannon (if reached via The Ark) or having destroyed the President's plane while he was evacuating (if reached via Air Fleet)
i know this kind of dumb 'edgy' content is exactly what people most hated about Shadow, but i feel like this track struck the perfect atmospheric note for that context, the sense of finality and irredeemability
Sonic games always have fantastic music. Some are better than others, naturally, but as a whole, the soundtracks are almost always top notch.
Take the music for the final level in the utterly forgettable Sonic and the Secret Rings
Corny lyrics aside, it's this kinda instrumentation that I love hearing out of the Sonic franchise. I'm also a huge fan of both of the remixes for Crisis City in Sonic Generations
The soundtrack to Generations just about reads like a best of in the sonic franchise's music collection. And the remixes do every track justice, if not improving them.
this song played only on the most evil route possible, while you directly attacked a human military base, having already blown up the White House using the Eclipse Cannon (if reached via The Ark) or having destroyed the President's plane while he was evacuating (if reached via Air Fleet)
i know this kind of dumb 'edgy' content is exactly what people most hated about Shadow, but i feel like this track struck the perfect atmospheric note for that context, the sense of finality and irredeemability
Shadow was, obviously, not a subtle game, and they could so easily have gone with a loud alt metal track for the level, in fact i might have expected them to. But instead they chose this rather slow, subdued piece of music, and i think it was a lot more fitting.
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maybe Heroes and Shadow, too (haven't played Sonic 2006 or Unleashed so not sure if it holds generally)
i did have fun playing SA2 and Shadow but having music i enjoy tends to enhance a game for me so i'm not sure how much of my enjoyment was attributable to the music, given i know the games themselves got criticized a lot
this song played only on the most evil route possible, while you directly attacked a human military base, having already blown up the White House using the Eclipse Cannon (if reached via The Ark) or having destroyed the President's plane while he was evacuating (if reached via Air Fleet)
i know this kind of dumb 'edgy' content is exactly what people most hated about Shadow, but i feel like this track struck the perfect atmospheric note for that context, the sense of finality and irredeemability
So it's like chill jazz!"Megalovania"?
Shadow was, obviously, not a subtle game, and they could so easily have gone with a loud alt metal track for the level, in fact i might have expected them to. But instead they chose this rather slow, subdued piece of music, and i think it was a lot more fitting.