Weekly Music

Friday, August 29, 2014

Darren Korb - "Setting Sail, Coming Home"

Rating: 9/10
Continuing from yesterday, more of my favorite VGM, there is nobody better in the world at composing VGM than Darren Korb. Darren Korb composed the soundtracks for Bastion and Transistor, in my opinion the two best video game soundtracks of all time. This song is the ending/credits song for the main ending of Bastion, and it is absolutely amazing. Although most of the soundtrack is instrumental, this song is one of the four songs which features vocals, and both the lyrical and musical composition of this song are exceptional, both in and out of the context of the game. The lyrics don't particularly make sense out of context from the game, but even so I think anyone can appreciate how beatiful this song is at the end of a beautiful video game. If anyone reading this has not played Bastion before, even if you don't play very many video games, you should seriously consider playing it. It is my favorite game of all time and is very much worth your time.

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