Beeps Bops & Beats

In today's episode Chris is bringing the music of existentialist android action-RPG, Nier: Automata , for us to feel all the emotions and ponder deeply on the nature of the world with. Developed by and published by Square Enix, this Yoko Taro directed modern classic was composed primarily by Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi, and Kakeru Ishihama - With vocals by Emi Evans and J'Nique Nicole being sung i...

Today Laura has brought in Undertale , an indie RPG published, developed, and composed by Toby Fox. Released in 2015 after a very successful Kickstarter campaign, this quirky tale of battling or befriending monsters set the world on fire with its charm, humor, and cast of interesting weirdos you spend your adventure growing to love. A soundtrack truly filled with beeps, bops, and beats - this tale...

As we close out the year, we also bring this season of the Beeps Bops and Beats podcast to a close in the most fitting way we could think of... with each of us bringing some of our favorite End Credits tracks in gaming. From spooks to pokes, squids to grubs, the blessed and the damned - we have all manner of close outs for you all today. We hope you enjoy this send off to 2025 with us, see you in...

In today's episode Chris brings an offering to the podcast to satiate both his co-host's tastes with Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus. This 2024 Japanese folklore inspired Metroidvania was developed by Squid Shock Studios and published (temporarily) by Humble Games. With music by Moi Camargo, we get to experience a beautiful blend of East meets West as orchestra works alongside traditional Japanese inst...

In today's episode Laura brings the feels with Spiritfarer , a 2020 indie sim and action game developed and published by Thunder Lotus Games. With music by Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis (aka Max LL), we set sail to the seas to help out friends find some peace in the afterlife. Join the BBB Discord @ https://discord.gg/FEAYdbePt8 Follow us on TikTok @ beepsbopsandbeats Or on BlueSky @ BeepsBopsAndBeats Cli...

In today's episode Joshua brings us Persona 5 Royal , a 2020 JRPG developed and published by Atlus as an enhanced version of the 2016 release. The series is known for it's lighthearted slice of life gameplay as a Japanese high schooler, yet this time it's pushed up against a political thriller as our young heroes learn to rise up against corrupt authorities and free their hearts... While still mak...

Spooky season carries on today with today's episode as Laura brings in a series of tracks from the Resident Evil Series . Spanning back from the PlayStation in 1996 up through it's upcoming release of Requiem next year, this series has been developed and published by Capcom on every generation of consoles and handhelds in between. Haunting melodies and tense strings are where the series strength l...

In today's episode Joshua brings us Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night . Released in 2019, this metroidvania is a love letter to the genre from one of it's most prominent directors Koji Igarashi after leading a wildly successful Kickstarter for the project. Bringing in a team of composers, join us as we explore this gothic adventure and it's many locales for spooky season! Join the BBB Discord @ ht...

In today's episode Chris, Laura and Joshua celebrate the anniversary of Sony's PlayStation 2! With the PS2 turning 25 years in October for the US, the BBB team goes back to remember some of our favorite games from the system's strangest and most iconic releases. Misty castles, flying cars, mad genies, smooch simulators, anthropomorphic ducks armies, and murderous machine women. There's something f...

Today's episode is focused on Hironobu Sakaguchi's Lost Odyssey . Originally released on the Xbox 360 in 2008 to help draw in Japanese audiences, this Final Fantasy inspired JRPG was one of the handful of releases from Mistwalker. The soundtrack was composed by long-time collaborator Nobuo Uematsu, but free from brand expectation allowed wild experimentation from their normal output. Join the BBB...

With this release we're celebrating our 1 year anniversary of Beeps Bops & Beats! Joshua leads us as we go back to where it all started a year ago with Big Themes from video games... Ranging from 3D fighters, to brawlers, throwback platformers... Iconic RPGs, quirky cyberpunk indie hits, and deeply militaristic post-apocalyptic wastelands... We run the gamut with some of the biggest music in g...

In today's episode Joshua brings in a slew of tracks from the iconic Monster Hunter Series . Spanning back from the PlayStation 2 in 2004 up through it's most recent release of Monster Hunter Wilds to most modern platforms in 2025, this series has been developed and published by Capcom on every generation of consoles and handhelds in between. The music goes big to match the dragons and various mon...

In today's episode Laura serves up some Louisiana charm with South of Midnight , a 2025 action adventure game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. With the collection of southern folk lore at the heart of this game, the soundtrack was composed by Olivier Derivière as he channels the music of the bayou through a range of orchestra and southern instrumentation for a trul...

Come on in and celebrate with today's episode where Chris brings in Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game for it's 15th Anniversary. Originally released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010 alongside the movie, this side scrolling beat 'em up was a beloved throwback to yesteryear that paid more respect to the comic books with heavy fan service for gamers with neat nods to classic franchises an...

In today's episode Joshua brings us Chrono Trigger  in anticipation of it's 30th Anniversary this month. Originally released on the SNES in 1995, this Square Soft developed game solidified its place in the pantheon of greatest games of all time with it's strong characters and time traveling narrative backed by Yasunori Mitsuda's legendary soundtrack. Join the BBB Discord @ https://discord.gg/FEAYd...

In today's episode Chris brings us Persona 4 Golden , a 2012 JRPG developed and published by Atlus for the PlayStation Vita, as a much enhanced version of the 2008 PlayStation 2 release. The series is known for it's lighthearted slice of life gameplay as a Japanese high schooler, smashed against deep existentialism as you use captured monsters to battle your inner demons and face your true self......

In today's episode Laura, Chris, and Joshua celebrate the anniversary of Nintendo's debut system! With the NES turning 42 years old and 40 in the US, we wanted to back and dig up some childhood favorites and jam out to chiptuney goodness. We travel to the moon, become a dinosaur, and dream a little dream while swinging around by our mechanical arm and punching things REALLY hard, to wake up and wo...

In today's episode Laura takes us on a genre hopping journey as she showcases some hidden gems from Xbox Game Pass. With a massive library of games to choose from Laura has picked nine games that have been available on Game Pass this past year that just maybe you've overlooked. So come on in and join us as we go from 80's run-and-guns to relaxing cooking sims and every game and musical genre in be...

In today's episode Chris, Joshua, and Laura were tasked to bring in old songs, but remixed, rearranged, or just snazzed up into a new treat for our ears. Come on in and join us on rediscovering classic gaming songs that we all know and love... Through a new lense of piano, orchestra, fun house mirror worlds, electronica, or even just reinterpreted by the original developers years later.  Join the...

[Potential NSFW warning, this wasn't meant to air so we're a bit more loose than usual with the language.] In this special release straight from our Kingdom Hearts, come behind the scenes of BBB for a discussion on the totally normal relationships of Kingdom Hearts characters. We hope you enjoy as we look over an infograph and go down the Sora / Xehanort Trees to discover if Joshua should go back...

In today's episode Chris brings us Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days , a 2013 action JRPG developed and published by Square Enix on the Nintendo DS. It's a game who's series reputation for being as convoluted as it's naming structure, we focus on the most black sheep of all the games and it's oft-overlooked amazing soundtrack. Music is composed by the legendary Yoko Shimomura. Join the BBB Discord @ https...

In today's episode Laura brings us stirring music from the cult classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask , a 2000 adventure game developed and published by Nintendo. As a follow up to the wildly successful series entry Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask took players deeper into a world on the brink of destruction with arguably the most emotionally mature release in the series even to this day. Origi...

In today's episode Joshua brings us Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist , a 2025 action role-playing platform game developed by Adglobe and Live Wire, published by Binary Haze Interactive, and composed and performed by Mili, the Japanese indie group that also composed for the previous release Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. Join the BBB Discord @ https://discord.gg/FEAYdbePt8 Click here for a...

In today's episode Chris brings us the celebrated remake of an iconic JRPG, Final Fantasy VII Remake. Released in 2020, developed and published by Square Enix, this turn based/action RPG is a reimagining of the 1997 classic that brought JRPGs to the West in a big way on the original PlayStation. While Final Fantasy VII on it's own would make for a great episode, we wanted to focus on it's new musi...

In today's episode Joshua brings us a peculiar game from the Super Famicom with Ihatovo Monogatari (roughly translated "Ihatovo Stories"), a 1993 adventure developed and published by Hect and unreleased outside of Japan. In modern times a fansub has been released making it playable in the West, but those fortunate enough to have encountered it as an import rental in the 90s would have quite a tale...