![]() Being forced to participate in wanton slaughter results in these hapless victims going mad with fear, embracing a violent form of nihilism or just ending their own lives to escape the constant suffering. While it allows the player to recruit many of the game's minor antagonists, giving them some much-needed development, it also sees them enslave many heroic ones. Unlike other games with an evil route, however, this is an entirely separate campaign, and it's a particularly nasty one. In the game's infamous Demon Path, Revya can reject their heroic destiny and embark upon a campaign of conquest and destruction across the entire world. However, the darkest villain in Soul Nomad has the potential to be the player themselves. From the genre's usual corrupt lords and despotic gods to child slavers and abusive predators, this game's antagonists are so utterly heinous that it's all too easy to give into Gig's temptation and decimate them with his demonic power. ![]() Yet, for all his vices, Soul Nomad has so many even viler characters that he looks positively cartoonish by comparison. Being a genocidal maniac who finds slaughter hilarious, curses with every other sentence and constantly encourages the most destructive course of action, it's fair to say he'd be the villain in any other game. A lot of these other songs make that impression, too.Speaking of which, for better or worse, Gig is the star of this show. It was as if someone loaded random noises onto a Casio keyboard and then just banged on it with no regard for composition. Where to begin? The sheer randomness of it? The sounds of what seem to be cats gagging? The random “Yeehaaw!”s? A song for a fun house level doesn’t have to be serious, but it shouldn’t lapse into unfunny self-parody. Spider-Man: The Animated Series – “Fun House Theme” This tune isn’t actually good enough to be innocent, but it’s too funny to be guilty. Noriyuki Iwadare, what happened? You did some great songs in other games. This reminds me of those memetic remixes of Thurston the cat’s meow. Capcom usually isn’t known for churning out bad tunes, so what happened here? GUILTY It seriously sounds like it was composed at random. OK, this is just painful, and sounds like the first song, BUT WORSE. If game music could get drunk, it’d sound like this. This song would be fine for a short loop in a longer song, or if it was used in a short area, but it loops over and over… GUILTY They also butchered the boss theme almost to the point of being unrecognizable, with an agonizing edge. God, Sonic’s 15 th anniversary was so screwed up. How do you make the theme to the first level shy, yet also discordant and painful? This is how. Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis (Game Boy Advance) – “Green Hill Zone”, Boss Theme, and “Continue” Theme Maybe this song is one reason why Alex lost his role as Sega’s mascot to Sonic – his games didn’t have music as good! GUILTY With a few tweaks, it’d make for a good tune in a horror game. This song has a strange, dissonant tone to it. ![]() GUILTYĪlex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle – “Item C” Maybe the singing wouldn’t be so bad if they hadn’t applied a bizarre filter over it. They sound like a bad Ozzy Osbourne impersonator through a tin can, and the lyrics aren’t comprehensible. Unlike all of the other ones so far, this song doesn’t start off that bad, but then these strange vocals hit. GUILTYĪn early game from our old buddy, David Cage, and his studio, Quantic Dream. What makes this take humorous with is how nervous the guy singing it sounds. This song is super GUILTYĭouble Dribble (Arcade) – “National Anthem”Īs an American, I’m no stranger to bad takes on this song. I think I’d be more comfortable if someone caught me watching actual porn instead! GUILTYĪ freeware Genesis game. The idea of someone walking into the room and overhearing this is mortifying. The opening salvo is an inexplicable vocal volley between a man saying, “Oi!” and a woman moaning. What kind of sounds and voice clips, you ask? Strangely orgasmic ones. It’s the first of many upcoming songs that abuse random sounds and voice clips in their “melodies”. It’s tempting to dismiss it as music at all. It sounds as if a Casio keyboard set to “horn” got flatulent. The Mansion Basement Theme in the original version of Resident Evil is respectably spooky. Resident Evil Director’s Cut – Mansion Basement Theme I decided that it would be fun to review some of these songs, and determine if they are GUILTY or INNOCENT! When I was researching how the (sigh) Wayne’s World game butchered “Bohemian Rhapsody”, I was compelled to click on a playlist in the recommendations: “AWFUL Game Music” (which is highly subjective, I mean it has the DOG ending theme from Silent Hill 2 on it).
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