With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?

Personally i would go for advance wars 1 and 2 on the gba (there is no remake and never will be)

the artstyle, the music, the game-play is just simple, yet effective, a sublime experience of very fun times.

Whats yours?

  • Wow. I’ve gotten mitsuda’s works through… other means… but i’d buy it in a flash if I came across it. It’s one of my favorite albums. I’m also a fan of caseopea. Are you familiar with them? Their work really puts a lot of videogame music into perspective. It seems like the Japanese have a different, and i’d say more healthy, sense of borrowing/honoring other artist’s works. You can definitely hear how they influenced a lot of, particularly kondo’s works. I could talk about/listen to videogame music for days.

    • Fantastic recommendation on Casiopeia, and yeah - jazz fusion ended up having quite a large influence on VGM. I was amazed when a buddy of mine started pointing out some of the connections. T-SQUARE is also worth a listen, for anyone wanting more music in this style.

      • Oh yes. They did a couple albums together (the band members overlap over time) and the number of musicians makes it complicated in a really great way. I particularly like the percussion with both drummers going at it.