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Toby Fox - Deltarune Chapter 2 (Original Game Soundtrack) ALBUM REVIEW

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Well, well. My first video game OST. Let’s see how this goes… Okay, this is a brand new world for me. I don’t know that much about video game music, but since my friend made a massive playlist of video game music on YouTube and sent it to me, I decided to try and give my shot at a review of a video game OST. Might as well be something big, right? So, Undertale creator and composer Toby Fox has been working on the kinda-sorta sequel to that game, Deltarune . It’s divided up into chapters, and this is the original score to the second chapter of the game. That’s really all I got as the intro. Let’s get into the score for Deltarune Chapter 2 . Compared to the Undertale OST, this is much shorter. Apparently, 46 songs and 50 minutes is short for a soundtrack like this. I mean, I can safely say that I do like this more than the Undertale soundtrack, mainly because I just think that this would just be that soundtrack but cutting out all of the fat. I guess the biggest problem I have with th...

C418 - Minecraft Volume Alpha ALBUM REVIEW

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Minecraft is one of the most popular and iconic video games of all time. This week, Minecraft Dungeons , the first new game in the franchise made by the original developers, Mojang Studios, released. I personally haven’t played it yet, but I’ve heard great things from my friends that have it. So, I decided to take it back a couple years to the first volume of the Minecraft soundtrack, titled Volume Alpha . Like the Beta album and upcoming untitled third (!!!) album, Alpha was created by electronic producer Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418. He has made other music under the C418 moniker, but his work for Minecraft is his highest-profile work by far. So, how does Minecraft ’s music affect the game? Is Alpha any good? Let’s see… Alpha is the first volume in the Minecraft soundtrack, and it could be considered an ambient album. Most of it sets a mood or an atmosphere. None of it is really intense or action-oriented, just background music to your gameplay. Alpha tells the stor...