VGM of the Day

[Sarah Valentine]

Ooo Bloodlines! The bgm from the first level is a total banger, and the beat switching at the start metaphorically broke my ankles the first 100 times I listened to it. Amazing soundtrack.

[Random Encounter]

Today's song of the day is an arrangement by Savaged Regime just released yesterday! Loving their take of Sonic 2's Hill Top Zone, originally composed by Masato Nakamura and Izuho Takeuchi.

[Althena]

This is an amazing arrangement!

[Sarah Valentine]

This one gives me great late 80s early 90s hip hop vibes!

[Random Encounter]

Today's song is from the Khan Super Session arrangement of Soul Blade, the precursor to the long-running Soul Calibur series. We got spoiled in the PS1 release of Soul Blade not only with orchestral versions of the arcade tracks, but cool tracks such as this one for Rock. Lots of hands were involved in the making of this album, so check out the VGMdb entry here!

[Sarah Valentine]

I'm reminded vaguely of Tusk's theme from KI Gold, but this blows it out of the water!

[The Grimace]

I'm in love with that Hill Top Zone arrangement.

I'm also very biased in favor of Genesis Era Sonic content. Even so!

[Althena]

That was one of my favorites yet of Random Encounter's VGM picks.

[Random Encounter]

My musical picks have been pretty biased lately in favor of the Genesis and FM music in general. There's just something so magical about the sound when it gets done right.

I'll probably start trying to branch out more in the coming days to sampled stuff like on the SNES. 😁

[Random Encounter]

Happy Valentine's Day! To celebrate, today's song of the day is Theme of Love by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu, as featured on the Distant Worlds album. I hope you all have a lovely day and share some love with others in these trying times.

[Random Encounter]

Today's song is the 2nd Orc theme from Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, composed by Glenn Stafford. I haven't played WC2 in years, but this is the song that comes to mind immediately when I think of it.

[Sarah Valentine]

I didn't get into the Warcraft franchise until WC3, but clearly they were making baller tracks before that.

[Althena]

God, WC3 was phenomenal.

[Random Encounter]

Today's track comes from 2013's Killer Instinct, scored by many but greatest among them is legend Mick Gordon. This is Sadira's theme, but this whole soundtrack has pretty much been my life this past weekend. Enjoy!

[Sarah Valentine]

Hell yeah, that whole soundtrack is bananas! Tiger Warrior and Shatterhail are permanent fixtures on my playlist.