by Snorb » Fri Apr 11, '14, 5:38 am
So... yeah. Time to go mention a lot of the video game music I really enjoy, because I can!
Yoko Shimomura- Parasite Eve- U.B.
The final boss song for Parasite Eve. In one corner, a very attractive NYPD detective who somehow managed to fit her service revolver, tonfa, and flak jacket under a very sexy dress at the start of the game. In the other corner, a giant mutated baby... thing that was birthed by an opera singer mutated by mitochondria because of...
.....Look, I don't think I can accurately describe just what the actual hell the Ultimate Being is, but this is the music you get when you fight it on the deck of an aircraft carrier. It is very much equal parts "fighting for humanity," "you are this screwed," and "go make it dead." Shimomura has that nice ability to make RPG combat sound epic (not surprisingly-- she's done the soundtracks for Live a Live, Super Mario RPG, Mario & Luigi, the Kingdom Hearts series, and Street Fighter II.)
Yoko Shimomura - Super Mario RPG - Fight With Monsters
If you don't like Super Mario RPG, you have no soul. At all. It's really one of the best Super NES RPGs ever, even if Luigi only makes an appearance in the very end. The whole soundtrack's charming, with some remixes of Koji Kondo's classic Super Mario Bros. tunes, and combined with the bright-colored world full of hilarious characters, you get one hell of a trip.
Harry Gregson-Williams - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Snake Eater
This song actually crops up twice in the MGS series- the first time, obviously, during the opening credits of Snake Eater, which helps ease you the player into the "James Bond parody gone horribly horribly wrong" atmosphere. Its second appearance is equally fitting, as it's the final boss song from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, playing during the extremely brutal fistfight between Solid Snake and Liquid Ocelot. (I'm not linking the fight, you can see it on YouTube easily enough.) At first fighting as two mortal enemies, when "Snake Eater" starts playing, it calls back to the previous game, symbolizing Snake and Ocelot as the successors of the previous game's protagonist, Big Boss.
....and then you beat on Ocelot enough and the health meters fade away, and you both start moving slower, and a new song plays, showing the fight for what it really is: Two old men beating the hell out of each other over a war that's long ended.
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