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Just me and Reese for this one and it's one we've been trying to get to for a while. Sayonara Wild Hearts is an album as an endless runner rail shooter rhythm game and as such it really should be played to get the full experience, but the music is excellent and we had a great chat about the game and how it weaves music and narrative. ⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Links of Note: ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfa...

Returning Champion Conqy joins us to talk about Mirror's Edge. Itself a fairly interesting game with some neat gameplay, however the main event here is the soundtrack by the Psytrance/Psybient artist Solar Fields whose synth heavy score provides the perfect backdrop for futuristic parkour and kicking guys off helicopters. ⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Links of Note: ⁠Follow Conqy on X the everything app⁠ ⁠C...

This week we are joined by Kaye Ross of Duckfeed.tv to talk about one of my all time favourites: Chrono Cross. The sequel to Chrono Trigger is often unjustly maligned however the soundtrack is one of Yasunori Mitsuda's finest works so whatever your feelings on the game may be, I hope you enjoy the music with us! ⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Links of Note: ⁠Duckfeed.tv⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Li...

⁠Join our Discord!⁠ This week we return to Hell with Treyt in tow to talk about DOOM 2016's incredible djent-electronic masterpiece by Mick Gordon. This soundtrack barely needs an introduction but needless to say it's one we've wanted to do for a while. Rip and Tear! Links of Note: ⁠Treyt's ARK Mod⁠ ⁠Treyt's Music on Youtube⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Reese's T...

⁠Join our Discord!⁠ Is Tim Rogers the real Travis Touchdown? Previous guest Skeleton of DEEP HELL DOT COM and Karin of various and sundry join us to investigate while listening to some bangers from two of my favourite composers so hop in your Schpeltiger and buckle up for this one. Links of Note: ⁠Karin's Stuff⁠ ⁠Karin's Game ⁠DEEP HELL WEBSITE⁠ ⁠11th Heaven Critical Suplex⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existentia...

We're gonna finally crack open the can of worms called Touhou. There's an absolutely huge pool of music and games to talk about here but Justus returns from our previous shmup episode to talk about three of the more accessible ones and give us a bit of an education on the series, Zun, and FM Synth. ⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Links of Note: ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠R...

⁠Join our Discord!⁠ It's episode 50 and I'm delighted to finally have my friend Josh come on and talk about the NiGHTS games for Sega Saturn and the Wii. These quirky platformers have some truly beautiful music along with a lot of Sonic and Monkey Ball style bangers. Thanks to everyone for listening these last 50 episodes and hopefully will be around for 50 more! Links of Note: ⁠Josh's Twitch Chan...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ This week we're joined by Thuly to talk about Quintet's Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma, along with Granstream Saga. Often considered part of a loose thematic series called "Heaven and Earth" the games deal a with a lot of similar ideas of creation and destruction, usually with some great tunes to go along with them. Some more pedantic people will say Granstream S...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ It's time to talk some Mega Man and my good friend and Mega Man obsessive Mike was good enough to give his time so we can talk about the first 3 NES games and their respective soundtracks. These are some of the most iconic soundtracks on the NES so we were really hyped to talk about them. Enjoy! Links of Note: ⁠Mike's Twitter⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Just a goofy little bonus episode this week. Thuly joins us for a little chat about FFV, Gilgamesh and the Four Job Fiesta and we listen to a bunch of different versions of the Clash on the Big Bridge track from FFV because Square-Enix composers can't help but come back to the tune, and rightly so! Links of Note: ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠R...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ This week we're talking Guilty Gear Strive and Trevor Strunk of posting on Twitter and No Cartridge podcast fame. We have good chat about metal, fighting games and Bridget as an expression of Trans joy while listening to some shredding guitars and dodgy lyrics. Links of Note: ⁠Evo Moment #37⁠ ⁠No Cartridge Patreon⁠ ⁠Hegelbon on Twitter⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktr...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ This week, b0in returns for a full episode to talk about the Frogger reboot on PSX (and Dreamcast and PC) from the turn of the century. Truly I was not familiar with this soundtrack's game so please be as surprised as I was with these funky little soundtracks. Links of Note: ⁠B0in's Twitter⁠ ⁠Investigating the Frogger Modding Community⁠ ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktr...

Bit of a sleepy mini episode this week. So lets have a little chat about Battle of Olympus and you get to hear some nice music, deal? ⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Links of Note: ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Reese's Twitter⁠ ⁠Tom's Mastodon⁠ ⁠Tom's Bluesky⁠ Email: crtpodsystem [@] gmail ⁠CRT Artwork by JuiceZombie⁠ Timestamps: 00:00:00 Kazuo Sawa - Title Screen 00:02:12 Ta...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Finally getting to do Phantasy Star Online, one of my bucket list games for sure. Jimmy joins us to talk about the great music and simple joys of playing this very old game in 2024. Links of Note: ⁠Ephinaea PSOBB⁠ go and sign up and play Phantasy Star Online with me ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Reese's Twitter⁠ ⁠Tom's Mastodon⁠ ⁠Tom's Bluesky⁠...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Dave returns yet again with another C-64 playlist and we have a fun chat about the games but also Irish pubs in the 90s, the connection between folk music and video game music and a lot of other nonsense. Links of Note: ⁠Dave's Blog⁠ ⁠Podouken 110 - Bubble Bobble⁠ ⁠Charles Cornell - This 1990 NES Soundtrack Just BLEW Me Away⁠ ⁠Chris Huelsbeck Bandcamp⁠ ⁠High Voltage SID Collec...

This week we're going to monkey around with Treyt who wanted to talk about the Gamecube Monkey Ball games. Intensely frustrating (to me) games that nonetheless have some great music from some SEGA stalwarts full of lush breakbeats, JSR style funk and disco, and Sonic Adventure guitars. ⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Links of Note: ⁠Treyt's Twitter⁠ ⁠Treyt's Youtube Channel⁠ ⁠ VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Links of Note: ⁠VGATWTOE⁠ ⁠Existential Warfare⁠ ⁠Linktree⁠ ⁠Reese's Bluesky⁠ ⁠Reese's Twitter⁠ ⁠Tom's Bluesky⁠ Email: crtpodsystem [@] gmail ⁠CRT Artwork by JuiceZombie⁠ 00:00:00 Frank Klepacki - Hell March (Command & Conquer Remastered Collection Original Soundtrack) 00:06:24 Talk 01 00:18:57 Frank Klepacki - Mud (Command & Conquer Remastered Collection Original Sound...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Happy... Ys-ter? Sorry. Anyway, we've got some more great Ys music for you. This time from the various iterations of Ys 3. We're joined by Scott to talk about the games and their great soundtracks with a bit of a survey of the various console and PC releases as well as the remake. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Meiko Ishikawa; Hiroyuki Namba - The Boy's Got Wings (Stage Entrance) (WANDE...

⁠Join our Discord! ⁠ Rude Fox Alton returns and we're gonna talk about Sonic R (at least for a little bit) and we get distracted along the way talking about Sweaty feet, Tails creepypastas, Piss Sonic, John McAfee and Stephen King. Plus a little detour into Metropolis Street Racer for some nice Sonic R-esque tunes. 00:00:00 Richard Jacques; TJ Davis - Can You Feel the Sunshine? (Sonic R) 00:05:00...

Back again with a Mini Episode. I'm going to try to do these a little more regularly just for games that have short but great soundtracks so we can talk about those and Journey to Silius is a great sountrack to start with! I may still do a big Sunsoft episode in future but for now this will have to do! Thanks to b0in for joining us for this and I hope to have her on for a future episode! Also, let...

This week we're joined by Benny to talk about the original Spyro Trilogy, and also to melt Reese's brain with cursed knowledge of who composer Stuart Copeland's father is. Join us for some fun tunes and to hear Reese's descent into madness! Benny's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZenigtaMondtta Check out Benny's band's EP: https://starsixninepdx.bandcamp.com/album/starsixnine Music Theory: Spyro the...

Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/xTaqKcpmuh We've got another wonderful recent soundtrack this week in The Outer Wilds. Our friend Zed joins us to talk about the game and its music and give us the guided tour as I'm too shit to play the game well but what I did play I found fascinating. Spoilers abound so if you haven't played the game I would definitely recommend giving it a go before listeni...

Join our discord! discord.gg/QMgzjKjmTT Tryna hit the SEO for Persona 3 Reload with this episode (but also I've wanted an excuse to talk about Persona 3's music forever anyway) and we're joined by Teeps again. We had a great chat about the Persona and SMT series and the assorted spinoffs for this one. It's one of my favourite soundtracks ever and probably my favourite in the series overall (please...

Join our discord! discord.gg/QMgzjKjmTT Dave from the C64 episode returns to chat about Streets of Rage. This is obviously one we've wanted to do since the start of the podcast. Join us for some chat about one of the all time great soundtracks with some diversions about (British) Gladiators, GamesMaster, a dead F2P Sega game and more! 00:00:00 Yuzo Koshiro - The Street Of Rage 00:02:00 Talk 01 00:...

Join our Discord: discord.gg/QMgzjKjmTT This week we are joined by Deep Hell Skeleton to talk about MadWorld and Anarchy Reigns (Max Anarchy in Japan.) Two of Platinum's lesser known games. The first being a very violent Wii exclusive gave it some noteriety but the follow up sort of got lost in the shuffle. Both are enjoyable games and both have fantastic soundtracks mostly based on rap vocals but...