

There’s around one hundred pieces of music in Undertale, none of them feel the same, and it’s surprising how many of them become deep-seated in your memory.

It’s a soundtrack that is incredibly hard to tire of, especially as you go from the games subtle and twinkly early tracks Once Upon A Time and Memory, to the alternatively upbeat tunes of ASGORE and MEGALOVANIA. The characters, the charming dialogue, and every single piece of music was crafted by the solo developer.Īll the while, the soundtrack for Undertale feels incredibly varied, and it becomes all the more surprising that each individual track came from one creator rather than a team of composers. It’s still rather wild to think that Undertale was created by just one person: Toby Fox.
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Platforms: PC, Mac OS, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch.

Almost every single one of those games has something that surprisingly goes hard. I spent most of my childhood playing The Sims games on PS2, and later, Nintendo DS. I simply can’t imagine a Super Mario 64 level without the soundtrack echoing in my head, too the music truly made this game feel all the more immersive and magical as a child. It’s near impossible to neglect how the likes of level music like Cool, Cool Mountain makes you feel like you’re on top of the clouds as you actually traverse them, while Dire Dire Docks slowed things down a lot, probably so you didn’t panic at the site of the huge eels.Įvery track - even that of ability-based music such as Metallic Mario - perfectly intertwines with whatever is happening on your screen or whichever area you’re running through. Super Mario 64 hit it on the head when trying to make fun tracks for every environment. Platforms: Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS (remake), Nintendo Switch (via Super Mario 3D All-Stars).Even if Tom Nook is regularly reminding you of the impending doom of capitalism, New Horizons’ soundtrack reminds you that it’s going to all be okay. That’s what Animal Crossing is about the games are escapism at its finest. Maybe it’s the fact that I spent nearly 200 hours terraforming my island during the pandemic, or maybe it’s that so many content creators have since used the music of New Horizons to create their own cosy content.Įither way, the soundtrack for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has two main associations for me: calm, and cosy. Yet, the soundtrack that changed hourly in Animal Crossing: New Horizons holds such a special place in my heart. I’ll be the first to admit that there’s better video game soundtracks out there than that of any Animal Crossing game. Composers: Kazumi Totaka, Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and Masato Ohashi.

