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Video game music has seen a thirty-year transition from silence to orchestrated scores by modern classical composers that was so smooth, it's hard to imagine how it all happened.
Any gamer worth his or her salt remembers what they heard the first time they flipped on the NES and prepared for the quest to slay Ganon, Bowser, Dracula or Mother Brain. My brother and I would run from the other end of the house every time we heard my dad throwing his first punches in Kung Fu. Little eight-minute MIDI symphonies seemed as good as it could get and, many would argue, still are.
The next logical step was the analog keyboard version of Alice in Chains' "Angry Chair" in Doom II, which might as well have been my CD collection in a video game.
Trent Reznor's score for Id’s Quake was, to me, mind-blowing. The eerie industrial-ambient drones – complete with embedded grenade-bouncing sounds in one of the tracks – chilled me to the bone. I had a running conspiracy theory that violence-inducing soundwaves were hidden in that album and experimented on it for months on end. Years later, Akira Yamaoka's Silent Hill scores paralleled Reznor's Quake score for the survival horror series.
Man, I do love me some Kingdom Hearts II. It's like crossover fanfiction you don't feel dirty for liking because it's not actually fanfiction. Seeing Will Turner from Pirates talking to Goofy and Donald is just surreal at times.
I hope they do end up making a 3rd game, but also, waiting a while before they do. The second KH game is as special as the first because they didn't just crank it out right away to capitalize on the popularity.
So here is where I fanboyishly list my hopes for appearances in the next Kingdom Hearts game.
On the Disney Side, they should be able to include Pixar stuff now that Disney bought them. I also am going to include some stuff that isn't just their feature films:
- Emperor's New Groove
- Gargoyles
- The Incredibles
- Toy Story
- Monsters Inc.
- Kim Possible
- Darkwing Duck
On the Final Fantasy side:
- Kain
- Edge
- Shadow
- Chocobos
- Gogo
- Palom and Porom
- Freya
--The Geek
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