Now that I no longer have a broken PS4, I’m trying to play catch-up on several of the heavy hitters the console has produced this year. It was a coin flip on whether NieR: Automata or Horizon: Zero Dawn would … Continue reading Music to My Ears: City Ruins (NieR: Automata)
We’ve given the Legend of Heroes series plenty of love, so why not spend a moment today on another underappreciated JRPG franchise with the phenomenal Falcom Sound Team jdk providing the soundtrack? Ys is Falcom’s most successful property, an action-based … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Main Theme (Ys VIII)
Each year, the summer comes and goes and we hurtle head-first into fall. Usually that means a full slate of upcoming games that I’m extremely interested in picking up. That’s not the case this year, and I think it’s strange. … Continue reading The Fall Video Game Lookahead, 2017 Edition
One of the cooler things about video game music is its ability to take a situation and turn up the intensity to the max. Some of the genre’s most crucial moments would feel empty and hollow without the tracks … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Confrontation with the Enemy
I think I did a pretty good job not posting about Persona 5 for a while. I should get a medal or something. If we’re being honest, I could do a post about a track from this game for a … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Ark (Persona 5)
Piece by piece, we’re getting a little bit more information about Trails of Cold Steel III, which is exciting to me on a number of levels. Since Legend of Heroes has been gaining some traction in the States, we’re almost … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Trails of Cold Steel
I’ve only covered one song from Final Fantasy VI before, and that seems like an oversight. Let’s work on fixing that. I think the temptation when I started this series years ago was to avoid some of the obvious picks … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Dancing Mad
I think this is the last Persona 5 post for a while. I think. No promises. I just beat the game last night, and I loved it. LOVED it. I’ll have to take time to let it all settle in … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Rivers in the Desert
Oh, did you think we were done with Persona 5 music? Hahahahaha, no. No, not quite. Not yet. Life Will Change is awesome. One of the few problems with Persona 4 is that it gets off to a bit of … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Life Will Change
It’s been a pretty awful weekend, so I don’t have much to say about today’s song…it’s the battle theme from Persona 5, which we already talked about as a game you should be playing right now. Persona’s battle themes are … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Last Surprise
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