Favorite VG Music

[PrettyNier]

harmony's music is much better off using the instrumentation it used: the melodies generally dont work as well when treated with the mindset that they're supposed to be emulative of existing instruments, rather than simply existing as they are, in their own space to be used as they were supposed to be used. the oft-given reason for using the chip they used was that they didn't have the room because of all the visual stuff they were doing in that game, but just looking at that reason and calling it a "mistake" or a "tragedy" is hardly fair when approaching the quality of the music and how obviously intentional it was.

the sound chip couldn't possibly have hurt the songs sound, because that is the songs sound.


i listen to harmony of dissonances music far more often than i bother with cotm or aria's for the simple fact that the songs feel like they're at their full strength, whereas every single time i hear something from aria i cant help but lament the incredibly weak, emulative instrumentation.