Style: Video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: Trying to survive a crazy bullet hell shooter with some fine tunes playing
Thoughts: Enter the Gungeon is a hard game. Hard games are not a bad thing by default, but they do have to be fair. Being hard for the sake of hard is not fun - at least not for me. If it's hard because you have to develop the skills to overcome the games challenges, I'm usually down for that kind of challenge.
Enter the Gungeon falls into the second category. It's hard, but it is fair. The game is a rougelike meaning that once you die, you die and have to start over. The further you get into the game the harder it gets, and the more complex the movement options are. It's an additive game and has the "one more run" formula down to a science.
Something that can make or break games like this is the soundtrack. You'll be hearing the music over and over again as you repeatedly die and if it sucks then it's a quick trip to the options menu to turn it off. I never had to do that for Gungeon.
The music here is varied and distinct, and by the fact that there are three records in this set - there's a lot of it too. The music fits the constant tension that the game holds to a T. It's tense when it needs to be tense, it relaxes when the player can relax. It's catchy, it's memorable, and it's infectious.
I would often find myself humming the intro music when I was playing this game on my lunch break years ago. The game is perfect for short bursts and the music remains in my head long afterwards. It's a fantastic soundtrack and one that I'm glad to finally have in my collection.
Written September 9th 2024
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