![]() ![]() This has been a surprisingly strong fall for first-person shooters. The game’s score, by Jonathan Geer, is a lovely thing, punctuated by acoustic strings and whimsical melodies, and is quite at odds with the game’s troubled development. Listen: Bandcamp | Spotify Buy: Steam DLCĪfter fully a decade in development, the pixel-art platformer Owlboy finally released at the beginning of November, to considerable accolades and, one must assume, considerable relief on the part of the five-person development team. This is one album that’s definitely worth listening to. Josh Whelchel’s orchestral score for the game is accompanied by a bevy of vocal tracks featuring some very strong performances. Masquerada is an isometric RPG in the style of Baldur’s Gate that has an intriguing faux-Venetian setting. Though the game released on the last day of September, the soundtrack to Masquerada: Songs and Shadows didn’t appear until the end of October. The score, by composer Stephen Barton ( Modern Warfare), is bombastic in the style of a Hollywood blockbuster. It’s almost certainly the best FPS campaign I’ve played in a long time. James O’Connor made a passionate plea to you last week to buy the game, and I can’t help but echo his sentiment: Titanfall 2’s campaign is clever, polished, and exhilarating. Robot/human buddy cop comedy Titanfall 2 dropped at the end of October, just a hair too late for me to include its soundtrack in last month’s roundup. It’s out now, and you should definitely go give it another look. Last month I embedded Christopher Tin’s stunning opener to Civilization VI and linked to an official YouTube video containing the whole score–but it wasn’t available for purchase yet. Listen: YouTube | Spotify Buy: Amazon | iTunes It’s superb orchestral work that brings appropriate weight to the historically fraught subject matter. Next, I mentioned in last month’s roundup that Battlefield 1’s soundtrack wasn’t officially out yet. Listen: YouTube Buy: iTunes | Square Enix Store (import, CD) If you wanted a Pokémon game that wasn’t actually a Pokémon game, maybe you picked this one up. The game skews a little young, but it has plenty of excellent tracks from series regular Masashi Hamauzu, whose sound you may recognize from the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy or some of the later SaGa games. If you need something to put in your headphones to block out the sound of ornery relatives at Thanksgiving, consider some of the following.Ī few follow-ups to OSTs released at the tail end of last month: First, the soundtrack to World of Final Fantasy saw official release. Greetings, friends! I’m here once again with a cornucopia of auditory pleasures–the best game soundtracks of the month! November wasn’t quite as busy as October was, but there are still a bounty of new albums to consider. ![]()
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