Music Arcade

Hello and welcome to Music Arcade! Here comes an episode over a year in the making, as we considered how much the world was going to open back up. and we hoped and hoped still, but at the end of the day, while things are still progressing apiece, overworld themes are an interesting staple that, at the end of the day, might not need to wait for the perfect occasion to be a great topic! So join Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Edie as we discuss these wide and open themes, and things that are... Close enough.

0:00:00 - Introduction

0:06:01 - Final Fantasy VIII - Blue Fields (by Nobuo Uematsu)

0:13:56 - Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - North Land (by Yasunori Shiono)

0:19:25 - Suikoden Terkreis - To the World (by a broad and talented cast of composers)

0:29:25 - Adventure of Mana - Endless Battlefield (by Kenji Ito)

0:36:51 - Final Fantasy VI -  The Veldt, Wild West Orchestrated (by Nobuo Uematsu, arrangement by ChrystalChameleon)

0:45:43 - Valheim - The Meadows - A Place to Rest (by Patrik Jarlestam)

0:57:03 - Valkyrie Profile - Requiem to a Predicament ~ Sky Gate (arrange album version) (by Motoi Sakuraba)

1:07:24 - Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Peace and I Are Strangers Grown (by Austin Wintory)

1:15:43 - Super Mario Bros. 2 - Overworld (by Koji Kondo)

1:21:00 - NieR Gestalt/Replicant - Hills of Radiant Winds (Concert & Talk Life version) (by Keichii Okabe)

1:31:13 - Now Playing

If you're interested in giving the music we're discussing in this episode, you can check the episode playlist: Music Arcade 23

Note: due to Blue Fields' Playstation version being actively taken off youtube on the regular, the linked version in the playlist is the Midi version from the PC port instead.

Note 2: The Hills of Radiant Winds part of the concert starts at three minutes into the corresponding video covering the entire concert.

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Hello and welcome to an anniversary episode of Music Arcade! It's been one year already, and as such, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Edie gather to recount past episodes, how the podcast affected them, memories from its creation to its more recent episodes, and all sorts of recollections. So sit back, relax, and enjoy that trip down memory lane. Followed more recent impressions still.

If you're interested in giving the music we're discussing in this episode, give the previous episodes a listen and look at their playlist. I believe in you, you sleuthing listener you.

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Hello everyone and welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Edie and Ranakel are covering a set of recent occurrences in the video game music world, some joyful, some concerning, but all deserving attention.

0:00:00 - Intro

0:02:07 - Skyrim 10th anniversary Concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

0:45:56 - Materia Collective's payment pains

1:04:32 - Rez's 20th anniversary, with a focus on Fear (by Adam Freeland)

1:23:44 - What Are We Playing?

1:34:51 - Outro

The concert discussed in the first segment can be viewed here: Skyrim 10th anniversary Concert

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Hello and welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Beholder" Firestone, Count Van Ediela and the shambling Ranabomination rise from two meters under to discuss the gothicest, spookiest songs video game has to offer. Not just because halloween was some ten days ago or anything, turns out, that's a very prolific subject as illustrated by the following discussion points:

0:00:00 - Introduction

0:02:30 - Let us frame the discussion on what we mean when saying "gothic tracks"

0:09:13 - Killer Instinct - Lycanthropy (by Mick Gordon)

0:15:05 - Demon's Crest - Beyond the Colosseum (by Toshihiko Horiyama)

0:23:10 - Grim Dawn - Lonely Moon (by Steve Pardo)

0:26:25 - Diablo - Tristram (by Matt Uelmen)

0:30:00 - Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Cobblestone and Fog (by Bear McCreary)

0:32:53 - Suikoden 2 - Gothic Neclord (by Miki Higashino)

0:38:09 - Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 - Dying for a Drop of Blood (by Óscar Araujo)

0:41:31 - Castlevania Lament of Innocence - Ghostly Theater (by Michiru Yamane)

0:45:50 - Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Waltz of the Pearls (by Michiru Yamane)

0:54:13 - Bloodstained Ritual of the Night - Holy Wisdom (by Michiru Yamane)

1:01:43 - Dark Souls - Ornstein & Smough (by Motoi Sakuraba)

1:10:06 - Bloodborne - The Night Unfurls (by Ryan Amon)

1:14:58 - Final Fantasy VI  - Dancing Mad (by Nobuo Uematsu)

If you're interested in giving the music we're discussing in this episode, you can do so in this playlist: Music Arcade 20

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Hello everyone and welcome to Music Arcade! This episode is a special one, as Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, along with Ryan "RyBred" both attended the Final Fantasy VII Remake Orchestra World Tour concert at the Microsoft Theater. Ranakel didn't, because it's 5,825.2 miles (or 9,374.75km) away, but he's heard of some Final Fantasy stuff at least once before and that's gotta count for something. Edie, meanwhile is down with a bad case of the sore throat that hounds him at the worst of time. What follows next is a discussion of the tracks played, the way they're played the general concert experience, and concerts in general.

No specific chaptered tracklist as things get a bit artistically jumbled for the sake of a fluid conversation.

If you're interested in giving the music we're discussing in this episode, you can't do so for this episode, because it was a live concert.

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone and Ranakel go over a track, a track selection, and an entire soundtrack to think on why things didn't quite hit home that time. What might have been, what in some respects should have been, and what could have happened.

03:22 - Correction on a part episode: the meta "what could have been"

07:12 - Genshin Impact's Raiden Shogun fight phases 1 and 2

19:40 - Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers x NieR&NieR Automata: the song selection for the Tower at Paradigm's Breach

44:48 - Satisfactory's sounds of an unfortunately clean future

55:56 - Outro

If you're interested in giving the music we're discussing in this episode, you can do so in this playlist: Music Arcade 18

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Hello everyone and welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Edie and Ranakel take off... TO SPAAAAACE! In there, nobody can hear you scream, sing, or beatbox, but this didn't stop many video game composers from giving the vast reaches of outer space a distinct sound over the years. Let's jump in and see what it sounds like:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:01:55 - Correction regarding mistakes in a former episode

0:04:37 - Why this episode?

0:05:36 - Halo 2 - Halo Theme Mjolnir mix / Reclaimer (Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori)

0:22:48 - Destiny 2 - Journey (Skye Lewin, Michael Salvatori)

0:28:15 - Kid Icarus Uprising - In the Space-Pirate Ship (Noriyuki Iwadare)

0:35:57 - Rogue Galaxy - The Relic's Song (Tomohito Nishiura)

0:43:13 - Star Fox (Super Smash Bros. Arranges) - Star Wolf's Theme/Corneria (Hajime Wakai, Koji Kondo. Arrangements by Mahito Yokota/Kentaro Ishizaka)

0:53:36 - Jet Force Gemini - Asteroid (Robin Beanland)

0:58:56 - FTL Faster Than Light - Last Stand (Ben Prunty)

1:08:31 - X3/X4 - Yet to be Discovered/Lances of Light (Alexei Zakharov)

1:18:26 - Star Wars: The Old Republic/Knights of the Old Republic - The End in the Stars/Old Republic Theme (Jesse Harlin/Jeremy Soule)

1:31:24 - Risk of Rain (Chris Christodoulou)

1:33:42 - Galactic Civilizations 2 - Main Theme (Paul Kerchen, Mason Fischer, Eric Heberling)

1:39:39 - Outro

If you're interested in giving the music we're discussing in this episode, you can do so in this playlist: Music Arcade 17

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone and Ranakel tag team against thousands. Or more accurately, the music accompanying these kind of situations. It's a Warriors/Musou games episode! Does it takes more than very loud, very fast guitar to get in the mindset? Why are some themes so notable? We'll answer these question and more in this episode, talking about the following themes:

0:00:00 - Opening

0:02:20 - Introductions about the start of Warrior games in themselves, and for us.

0:14:24 - Samurai Warriors 2 - Tedorigawa

0:21:00 - Tadakatsu Honda's theme (SW3 mix) vs. Lu Bu's theme (DW7 mix)

0:29:59 - Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends Complete - Strength, Weakness

0:36:16 - Warriors Orochi - Incarnation of Evil

0:40:41 - Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage - The Seven Scars

0:44:47 - Hyrule Warriors - Skyloft and Eclipse of the Sun

0:50:43 - Ninety Nine Nights - Defender of Truth and Spiral Maze

1:00:27 - Undead Knights

1:05:21 - Drakengard 2 - Breakthrough

1:20:18 - Drakengard 2 - Fate

1:27:33 - Fate/Extella Link - Holy City and Carolus Patricius Auctoritas

1:33:13 - Drakengard 3 - Final Song

1:39:49 - Recap and Outro

Due to the difficulty to identify composers for individual tracks in this genre, the information has been left out of the description to avoid any misattribution.

If you're interested in giving the music in this episode a listen, they've been collected in the following Youtube playlist: Music Arcade 16

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Hello and welcome to Music Arcade! In today's episode, enthusiastic shouting led to a disparate set of talking points, tracks and games. And so, instead of forcing a unifying theme, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Ranakel and Edie decided to just chat about some of their recent findings.

04:11 - NEO The World Ends With You - Rockin' Rockin' plus various track remixes (Takaharu Ishimoto)

18:47 - Tainted Grail: Conquest - Reida (Danheim)

26:02 - Marvel's Avengers - They Played Us (Bobby Tahouri)

32:40 - Lobotomy Corporation - Second Warning / MalkuthDie (Unconfirmed composer / Tilarids)

52:06 - Kingdom Two Crowns - Kodama Sunset (Amos Roddy)

1:01:05 - Samurai Warriors 5 - Mikatagahara -various versions- (Unconfirmed composer)

If you're interested in giving the music in this episode a listen, they've been collected in the following Youtube playlist: Music Arcade 15

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]

Welcome to Music Arcade! In this episode, Galen "The Sound Guy" Firestone, Edie and Ranakel take on the role of the solemn, unblinking judges, grading the flips, twists and various acrobatics involved with video game soundtrack releases, both physical and digital. And then also weigh in on the Olympic Games' opening ceremony's video game music choices.

02:56 - Pricing

08:24 - Capcom and Steam

11:46 - Digital Formats (MP3 vs FLAC)

13:30 - Bandcamp

18:26 - More Pricing and Spotify

27:15 - Square and BluRay

38:25 - Konami and Licensing for streaming platforms

41:34 - Soundtrack Variance, Context, and Experience

50:34 - The Tokyo Olympics 2020's opening ceremony

1:09:07 - Outro

Thank you very much for listening. If you have any questions of remarks, you can address them at [email protected]