I always tend to see these lists here and there. Music has a funny way of invoking emotions in people, be it via past experience with it or melodic tone. Growing up, I didn't listen to the radio a lot, due to the fact the radio in ye old Car didn't get anything besides AM. Fuck FM.
What I did listen to a lot was gaming music. Why? Well I played the living fuck out of our Super Nintendo. When I wasn't outside playing with my school chums, we were at someone's house on the Super. As such, gaming music is a majority of what I listen to even now. It's given me a greater appreciation of music as a whole, and has made me incredibly fond of instrumentals.
So, here's 5 tracks that evoke a deep rooted emotion in me today.
Gradius III Arcade: Fire Scramble
This song always makes me feel more energetic. In Gradius III, this stage is covered in flame, and constantly hurling flaming comets at you. You HAVE to keep moving, dodging rocks as well as shooting them down and not to mention the enemies flying about as well. It makes me think of speed, nimbleness, like flying and jumping. Makes me jittery sometimes, hahaha.
Resident Evil 4: Regenerator.
This piece always sends an icy chill up my spine. Regenerators are some of my most feared enemies in any game I've played. Subconsciously I'm always shuddering a little when I hear their ragged breath. Regenerators are tall, sexless beings incapable of being killed by conventional means. It takes heavy concussive fire or well placed shots via a thermal scope to kill them. Their limbs are able to stretch to ensnare prey, and with giant fangs, the tear into their food. Another version impales it's victims on numerous spines that eject from it's body. Like an Iron Maiden.
REmake: Safe Haven
Another track from Resident Evil, this time from the Gamecube remake. I played this game a LOT. This song is the safe room theme. Many times I've been critically injured and running from Crimson Heads, only to run into one of these rooms. Usually dimly lit with an Item Box and a Typewriter, nothing is able to enter this room, except for you. As such, this always makes me feel very serene and relaxed.
Trauma Center Second Opinion: Code Blue ~DS Ver.~
This song makes me ridiculously tense. Trauma Center is a surgery sim with a lot of over the top stuff after the halfway point. This version of "Code Blue" is only used when your patient is hanging by a thread right off the bat. I spent forever trying to beat a mission with this song: save someone who's been in a nasty car accident. Lacerations on the body, glass stuck in their heart, and dying...I kept screwing up and I'd get really tense trying to beat it. Funny, consider it's just a game. But fuck...I can't hear this without feeling tense anymore. I mean, this song could make scrambling some eggs and ordeal.
Persona 3: Burn My Dread ~Last Battle~
Determination. All I can say. This song basically says don't back down. If you've played Persona 3 you know exactly why too, hahaha. It's a fucking awesome song with a fucking awesome message, and probably the only rap I'll ever listen to. This takes place at the end of the game during a scripted fight with the final boss. I refuse to spoil the story to the game, suffice to say it's the best story I've ever played in a game, ever. If you have a PS2 and like "different" RPG's, grab Persona 3 FES.
And that's that! Hope you like the songs, haha, and let me know what y'all think!
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