Listen: YouTube Buy: CDJapan (physical, import) Listen to these songs if you intend on staying fresh. Anybody who speaks ill of Pearl and Marina has lost the capacity to feel joy, in my opinion. Splatoon continues to sound like nothing else in games, and I’m constantly charmed by how successfully Nintendo keeps the game’s soundtrack tied up in its characters and world. I held off mentioning it until this month’s roundup, because as of mid-July, there’s now an official soundtrack release! Sure, you’ll have to import a physical copy, but the important thing is that there’s a legit way to get ahold of these fabulous tracks. Speaking of DLC released in June, Splatoon 2 got a big chunk of new ink-splatting fun in the form of its Octo Expansion. Listen to them, then go read about how that Lovecraft story is a precursor to Annihilation. There are only five songs on this little EP, but every one of them is good stuff. Chatwood’s music is dark, intense, and oppressive. Accordingly, the game has received a few new tracks from composer Stuart Chatwood, whose work on the Prince of Persia games I’ve always liked. Lovecraft story (“The Colour Out of Space” - it’s one of his least problematic!). Listen: Spotify – Bandcamp Buy: Amazon – iTunesĭarkest Dungeon – Color of Madness DLC by Stuart ChatwoodĪt the tail end of June, Darkest Dungeon received some new DLC: The Color of Madness, an homage to what is unquestionably my favorite H.P. Don’t pass this album over like I did when it first dropped on Laulan’s Bandcamp page - listen to it immediately! It’s full of strings, choral samples, and percussion that always seems to push the action forward. It’s gotten praise for its evocative art and its punishing difficulty, but of course I zeroed in on the wonderful soundtrack by Yoann Laulan. Dead Cells is a side-scrolling platformer with a heavy emphasis on Metroid- style exploration and a heaping helping of procedural generation. Whatever the case, folks have been singing the praises of Dead Cells for more than a year, and it’s finally going to see an official release on PC and consoles any day now. I’m never sure whether to include a game as soon as its soundtrack releases, or wait until the game is officially out to highlight its tunes. Phew! At least we’ll never be wanting for excellent video game soundtrack albums.ĭead Cells – Soundtrack Part 1 by Yoann LaulanĮarly Access games bedevil me to no end when writing these roundups. I’m old enough to remember when summer meant a few measly crumbs’ worth of interactive entertainment! Back in my day, we gnawed on the bones of late spring’s JRPGs until our characters were level 99 and we’d beaten all the optional bosses - they were all we had until the late autumn harvest of new titles! These days, all it means for games to have a “summer slump” is that the monthly avalanche of AAA titles is replaced by a bounty of smaller games, DLC, and swimwear-themed events in our preferred Games As Services. Greetings, friends! We’ve made it through July, and with it what little remains of what was once the video game summer release doldrums.
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