Memorable Music in Gaming #55

This week we’re celebrating some of the finest vocalists ever to lend their voices. We hope these 5 tracks make you appreciate the games and the music that much more.

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 Soundtrack | PS2 | Pursuing My True Self

Confession: I haven’t played a lick of the Persona games. I do, however, know my way through each game’s killer soundtrack. I love it when games take their soundtrack seriously and make it such a major part of their identity.

Shihoko Hirata has an amazing voice, and I’m so in love with the way she sings “obscurity” near the end.

Pursuing My True Self (FULL w/ lyrics)

 

Kentucky Route Zero | PC | Too Late to Love You

Ostensibly, the song is sung by Junebug in Act III. In reality, it is actually composer Ben Babbitt’s voice, digitally altered.

Everything about this performance is a bona-fide work of art. The surreal vibes, atmospheric presentation, Junebug’s hypnotic movements. Pure class.

Kentucky Route Zero - Act III - Too Late to Love You (in-game version)

 

Gray Matter | PC | Never Going Back (Sam’s Theme)

Eugene Jarvis. Warren Spector. Ken Levine. Jane Jensen. There are some video game designers that I’m an eternal fan of. Gray Matter is a point and click game helmed by the latter - one of the best in the business.

Sung by the real-world band, The Scarlet Furies, this theme is a modern great. The point and click genre is notable for producing excellent music, and Sam’s Theme is up there among the greats.

Never Going Back (Sam´s Theme)

 

Resident Evil 7 | PC | Go Tell Aunt Rhody

“Go Tell Aunt Rhody” is an actual folk song from the 18th Century which sings about the death… of a goose. The version that appears in the game is sung by Jordan Reyne, who has such a fantastic punk voice. The lyrics are altered too, including seamlessly replacing “the old, gray goose is dead” with “everybody’s dead”.

You may disagree, but I find folk/traditional songs to be slightly off-kilter. Even nursery rhymes, especially after finding out what “Ring a Ring o' Roses” is all about actually. These songs have the tendency to make any piece of media that much more creepy.

Don’t believe me? Ever heard of “One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you!”

Go Tell Aunt Rhody (RE7 Official Soundtrack Full Version)

 

Persona 5 | PC | Beneath the Mask

If push comes to a shove, I’ll select this song as my top favorite from the Persona games. Sung beautifully by Lyn Inaizumi, there’s a lot of emotions and feelings on display here.

I highly recommend listening to the instrumental and the percussion-less rain version as well. Preferably back to back.

Persona 5 OST- Beneath the Mask

 

Article by: Hamza