Years 2023 Alan Wake II is an impressive horror game that mixes mediums and tells a metatextual story about creating art. This is a wonderful achievement in game design. It also features one of the catchiest songs ever put into a video game, memorably accompanied by a spectacular interactive performance. So I shouldn’t have been surprised to discover that Night sourcesthe game’s DLC, also contains a song that I can’t stop listening to. But the DLC has a special feature: it’s a real theme song, and now I think every video game needs one too.
Nocturnal springs is a bold DLC for an already meta-heavy game. It takes place in the form of episodes of a game fuzzy area parody written by Alan Wake himself and hosted by the mysterious Mr. Door. It gives each of the three episodes a canonical explanation without requiring them to actually make sense. Without any responsibility to remain consistent with the existing story, Remedy really does go off in ways you wouldn’t expect, even after playing. Alan Wake 2And since the entire DLC is a TV show, it makes sense that it has a theme song.
Simply titled “Night Springs,” the theme is a synth-pop track that quickly gets into your head. The lyrics discuss many strange events that can happen in the series’ eponymous town, with examples like getting caught in a time loop or finding a solar system in a bowl of soup, among others. Each of them feels like it could be an episode in its own right, and they all fit perfectly into the stories we’re experiencing.
After completing the first episode, “Number One Fan”, the theme song plays for the first time and it’s so nice to hear the pop anthem playing after taking down enemies in a rose-tinted world as psychotic (but incredibly adorable) waitress. Now I listen to the theme song and think how fun the DLC is. It’s just a feedback loop of good times between the song and the game.
Not that I needed more proof that things are better with a theme song, but this year’s mock satire of independent journalism Time and Galaxy has one too. Spoiler alert, it rules. Before you even create your unique robot reporter in the game, an animated intro plays to a catchy tune. What works about this theme song is how it introduces you to the basic premise and cast of the game. You’ll be reporting a bunch of stories on a number of fields (arts, politics, etc.) and doing so alongside the staff of the titular newspaper. Listen to it and try not to get excited about the game. I, for one, have sung the lines “Space is a lonely void. We’ve covered it all. From August trash heaps to places unknown” more times than I can count (or care to admit).
All I’m saying is that no game would be worse for adding a theme song. Halo? Drop some lyrics on this choir soundtrack! Red Dead Redemption? Give me some cowboy music! Ring of Elden? You’d have a better time if you could sing a catchy tune while you died over and over again to the same boss. So please, let’s find more theme songs in video games.
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News Source : kotaku.com
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