A retro-styled soundtrack for a retro-themed horror game.
One interesting thing I've seen this game do that I haven't seen in a lot of other games is that it speeds the music up or down periodically. When first seeing World of Horror, these speed changes seemed to happen randomly at first, but now it seems to happen at specific points. For example, in the flavor text that appears before every battle, the music slows down by a lot before switching to the Battle theme. In some instances, this slowed down music can feel dreadful, like when it happens before a boss fight with a build up.
I feel like that's one of the reasons why the music in game doesn't feel as repetitive as I thought it'd be. The same music plays over the course of an investigation, but it speeds up and down and switches between combat and mystery music and the occassional other theme playing as part of an event or when entering the shop or inventory. It seems to help make the music feel like fitting background noise that sounds good and doesn't get stale.
Added mid-December, after watching Vinny's 8 videos of him playing the game
- School Mystery & Combat
Investigation Mystery & Combat This and the school's tracks feel like the first tracks that were made for the game. Seaside Mystery I love the quaint beginning with it's echoey melody and the subtle sea waves crashing that you can hear in the background. Bulletin Mystery As with the Seaside Mystery, this begins with an echoey beginning (big fan). I like the transition at 0:24.
Here, the slow melody doesn't feel as ardouos to me as with Forest Combat. It makes it feel like a song to lament the victims of the bulletin board.
I don't really like the ending when the garbled noise fades up to a crescendo only for it to loop. It doesn't sound nice and just feels out of place.
Bulletin Battle I like how the echoey beginning melody transforms into this a scale that goes up and down.
The instruments added here sound like rock instruments, with the deep sounding and a bit grating guitar and deep drums.
- Pharmacy
Forest Mystery I love the beginning of it (0:00 - 0:45) ! The low droning fits the theme of a forest perfectly and I swear I've heard the reverberating higher notes in some other song before, but can't remember it.Forest Battle There are better battle themes. I don't like the first two bars from the melody starting from 0:36, but like it's transition to the next part () as well as the part itself a bit (1:02).
It just in general feels like the track stretches itself out too long, with notes lasting so long that it becomes ardouos to listen and wait until the melody progresses further.
- Mansion Mystery
- Mansion Combat
- Hospital Mystery
- Hospital Combat