Style: VGM
Primary Emotions/Themes: Slaying monsters to phat beats
Thoughts: Rhythm games have always been a curiosity of mine. I loved Dance Dance Revolution when I was younger. I still go to arcades to play rhythm games from time to time as well. They are a fun skill based challenge that creates some great gameplay.
Dungeon crawlers have always been a curiosity of mine. I loved the old Rouge games growing up as well as various copy cat games as the genre evolved. I still play them from time to time as well. They are a fun skill and RNG based challenge that creates some great gameplay.
I never thought I would be mixing the two of those together. Crypt of the Necrodancer takes the rhythm based timing elements of said genre and mixes them with a dungeon crawler rougelike. A dungeon filled with monsters where you have to swing your weapon in time... that's the essence of this game.
With a premise like that, you damn well better have a good soundtrack... and hot damn does Crypt have a good soundtrack. Every track on here is crazy good. They are all groovy to the point where you bob your head. From the first notes of Disco Decent to the final notes of The Wight to Remain this thing has you in its hypnotic trance.
Based on the game play that is exactly what needs to happen to. Every action in the game relates to the beat, and the beat is strong here. While not all the music is dance, all of the music is good and it has a crazy strong identity and beat. It guides the players actions in game, just as it guides my head bobbing back and fourth listening to these records.
Crypt is a super fun game that has one of the better electronic soundtracks in my collection. The tracks range from old school trance to drum n bass and everything in between. This thing absolutely stands on it's own and is a fantastic album outside of the scope of the game. It took me a long time to find this one, but it was worth every moment of waiting and searching.
Written June 30th 2024
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