Aug 14, 2019
This is not a definitive list of the best-ever RPG town themes. This is the first in what will be a regular feature on Singing Mountain in which I look at various town themes and talk about what I think the composers were trying to tell us about the fictional cities these songs are attached to. It’ll be good, I swear. Track listing: 0:09: Village / Shining Wisdom / Motoaki Takenouchi 3:04: Village / Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals / Yasunori Shiono 6:20: Hometown / Terranigma / Miyoko Takaoka and Masanori Hikichi 10:16: Village of Luc / Grandia / Noriyuke Iwadare 15:39: Another Arni / Chrono Chross / Yasunori Mitsuda 19:44: The Village of Inoa / Alundra / Kohei Tanaka 22:36: Thousand Wings / Breath of Fire V / Hitoshi Sakimoto 26:18: Village of Elw / Wild Arms / Michiko Naruke 28:48: Town / Sword of Vermillion / Hiroshi Kawaguchi 30:55: Fisherman’s Horizon / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu 35:07: Saith / Lunar: The Silver Star / Noriyuke Iwadare 38:16: Town / Shining Force II / Motoaki Takenouchi 42:23: Dezoris Town / Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium / Izuho Numata and Masaki Nakagaki 45:01: Shevat ~ The Wind is Calling / Xenogears / Yasunori Mitsuda 49:11: Town / Emerald Dragon / Yasuhiko Fukuda 53:19: The City on the Deep Blue Sea / Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City / Yuzo Koshiro 58:15: Happy Town? / Mother 3 / Shogo Sakai 61:22: Mechanical Kingdom / Radiant Historia / Yoko Shimomura 65:00: Atelier City Zeiss / Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC / Hayato Sonoda, Wataru Ishibashi and Takahide Murayama 68:05: Going Shopping in Ripple Town / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura 72:08: My Home, Sweet Home / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu 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