Original Soundchat

Joe explores a spooky mansion while humming during the eradication of ghosts in Luigi's Mansion and Peter participates in the Nonary Game by solving escape rooms with Shinji Hosoe's work in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.

Peter takes a listen through the first-person shooter that refined the genre and changed the industry in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Joe communicates with ghosts by using a radio with Andrew Rohrmann's work in Oxenfree.

Joe wanders through the fog in a town that has something wrong with it in Silent Hill 2 and Peter battles an open world while tracking monsters to find his ward with Marcin Przybyłowicz's work in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Peter takes on the Order of No Quarter with a trusty spade in hand in Shovel Knight and Joe fights monster girls in order to claim a secret power with Vincent Diamante's work in Skullgirls.

Peter travels to a city in the clouds to wipe away the debt in BioShock Infinite and Joe writes poetry in a happy visual novel with cute girls with Dan Salvato's work in Doki Doki Literature Club.

Peter channels spirits into a courtroom through a Divination Séance in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice and Joe inverts gravity to avoid jumping into spikes with Magnus Pålsson's work in VVVVVV.

Joe dives into a world of collaboration between Level-5 and Studio Ghibli in Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch and Peter wakes up on Koholint Island to free the Wind Fish with Minako Hamano's work in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

Peter revs up the chainsaw in his Lancer rifle to deal with the Locust horde in Gears of War and Joe harnesses his latent psychic abilities to stop the apocalypse with Keiichi Suzuki's work in Earthbound.

Joe becomes the night by gliding over Gotham and dealing with an open villain prison in Batman: Arkham City and Peter uses double hidden blades to stab through Italian treachery with Jesper Kyd's work in Assassin's Creed II.

We talk to video game composer Darren Korb (Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades) and ask about his origin, creative process, and favorite tracks. Also, what does he think of the Critical Five tracks from our Bastion episode?

Peter embraces the positive jumping energy within the last game of its kind in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Joe weaves a web of consequences in a high-school slasher adventure with Jason Graves' work in Until Dawn.

Joe travels through time to present one of the most revered games and soundtracks ever made in Chrono Trigger and Peter mulls over the consequences of the butterfly effect through a high school lens with Jonathan Morali's work in Life Is Strange.

Peter looks into how a TV bounty hunter's adventures inspired the score for a globe-trotting video game hero in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Joe reflects on the synergy between climbing a mountain and overcoming your inner struggles with Lena Raine's work in Celeste.

Joe investigates how game jams and paying it forward changed the indie scene for the better in World of Goo and Peter hypothesizes about the way monochromatic rotoscoping cuts through colored brushstrokes with Satoshi Okubo's work in Hotel Dusk: Room 215.

Peter dissects the struggles of a difficult fighting game launch under tremendous expectations in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition and Joe praises the ideal realization of his favorite anime of all time with Toshiyuki Kishi's work in Dragon Ball FighterZ.

Joe highlights the wonderful simplicity of a 30-minute mobile game's emotional score in Florence and Peter uncovers the casually romantic efforts to save a strategy RPG series on the brink with Rei Kondoh's work in Fire Emblem Awakening.

Peter unravels the secrets of the Origami Killer with a tragic film-like score in Heavy Rain and Joe dives into Insomniac's efforts to portray the world's most famous superhero in John Paesano's work in Marvel's Spider-Man.

Joe cherishes Christmas memories with his sister as powers are combined in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and Peter explores the leitmotifs involved with sparing monsters in Toby Fox's work in Undertale.

Peter raves about a legendary RPG's opera that is compressed onto a Super Famicom sound chip in Final Fantasy VI and Joe pushes the boundaries of Game Boy launch title music in Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka's work in Super Mario Land.

Joe tells the tale of two upstarts in 1988 Japan who are yearning to become legends in Yakuza 0 and Peter explores big band jazz with cats in Mahito Yokota's work in Super Mario 3D World.

Peter covers the wide variety of musical genres found through environment inversion in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Joe wanders through a cute-as-heck world to collect pieces of time in Pascal Michael Stiefel's work in A Hat in Time.

Joe praises the Smash Bros.-inspired all-star composing team in Kid Icarus Uprising and Peter gets tropical for a hot-pink, blood-splattered battle royale in Masafumi Takada's work in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

Peter riffs on Sinnoh's snow, jazz, and heavy bass themes from Pokémon Diamond/Pearl and Joe visits the Dark Hour to explore the English rap stylings of Lotus Juice's work in Persona 3.

Joe personally connects with the one-man effort of creating the life and farm simulation of Stardew Valley and Peter mourns the loss of his save file and anthropomorphic animal friends in Manaka Kataoka's work in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Peter reminisces about the rocking guitar tunes in his favorite game while growing up in Sonic Adventure 2 and Joe pays tribute to the game that brought an industry into the third dimension alongside Koji Kondo's work in Super Mario 64.