Aug 8, 2019
Do video game composers speak a language that video game players understand? I’d like to think so, and maybe there’s some small proof in the way they score forest scenes. In this episodes, I talk about four different styles of forest VGM that might be particular to this genre of music but also happen to be pretty sweet to listen to. Track listing: 0:13: Lost Forest / Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box / Tomohito Nishiura 2:59: Boggly Woods / Thousand Year Door / Yoshito Hirano and Yuka Tsujiyoko 5:01: Great Forest of Moore / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 6:51: Wood Man / Mega Man II / Takashi Tateishi 8:24: Kolima Forest / Golden Sun / Motoi Sakuraba 9:34: Agata Forest / Okami / Masami Ueda 13:01: Forest of Confusion / Monstania / Noriyuke Iwadare 16:34: Cerulean Woodlands / Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan / Yuzo Koshiro 23:03: To Sunshine Forest / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 26:13: Silent Forest of Doubt / Arcana / Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando 28:03: The Forested Temple / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VII 32:55: Forest of the Treant / Tales of Phantasia / Motoi Sakuraba 35:51: Lost in the Forest / Romancing Saga 3 / Kenji Ito 37:22: Surrounded by Forest / Treasure Hunter G / John Pee 40:50: Passing Through the Forest / Threads of Fate / Junya Nakano 46:36: Dark Forest / Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse / Mari Yamaguchi 48:28: Enchanted Forest / Pocky & Rocky / Hiroyuki Iwatsuki 50:04: Scarlet Forest / Deltarune / Toby Fox 52:07: Forest of Monsters / Super Castlevania IV / Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo 56:55: Silence of the Forest / Bravely Default / REVO 61:01: Fangle Forest / Trine / Ari Pulkkinen 65:15: Cedar Forest (Falling Green) / Breath of Fire III / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida 68:57: Forbidden Forest / Etrian Odysse II: Heroes of Lagard / Yuzo Koshiro 74:24: Whisker Woods / Boot Hill Heroes / Jake Kaufman 78:19: Woodlands / Octopath Traveler / Yasunori Nashiki 86:11: Windy Cliffs / Do-Re-Mi Fantasy / Jun Chikuma Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe