Style: Video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: A more overt and lively take on the Hollow Knight soundtrack
Thoughts: Hollow Knight stands out as one of the better games to come out of the indie scene in the last decade. A large part of that is the excellent soundtrack, and how it captures the wonders of exploring Hollownest and the dangers found within.
The game included several free DLC's, with potentially the most substantial being the Gods and Nightmares. This part of the game revolved around a carnival that came into Dirtmouth, and set up camp. The denziens of this carnival are strange and mysterious, perhaps none more so than the ringmaster Grimm.
While the content in the game is exciting to play through the music is not nearly as much to my liking as the base game. Much of what is on display here is more orchestral in nature. It has a much greater emphasis on being dramatic and even uses electric guitars at some points.
While this is all not entirely a bad thing inherently, it goes against the initial reasons I loved the base game's soundtrack so much. There's not subtlety here, no sense of exploration, it's all in your face, it's all meant to be overt.
In practice it sounds more like a Castlevania soundtrack than it does an expansion to Hollow knight. While Castelvania has amazing music, it is not what I want out of a game such as this... it's a damn shame, because the game itself is quite excellent in all other facets.
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