Get Played - Chill Music

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

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This is a HeadGum Podcast. Hello everyone, it's Matt and I just wanted to get in here before the episode starts to let you know that we had planned on banking this episode to release at a later date or in case of emergency, but then an actual emergency happened the day after we recorded the episode, so we are releasing it instead of recording a fresh one like we had intended. The episode is new and was recorded just before the state of emergency occurred in Southern California. So you might hear us being vague about when we were recording. And that's because we didn't want it to seem like we were,

you know, holding on to an episode from January to release in May or whenever we were intending to do it, if we needed to use it that far out. So you might hear some silly stuff like that. You also might hear us making some predictions about stuff that hasn't come true yet And that's because we thought maybe by the time this had come out some of the things we were talking about Maybe would have happened by then, but you'll see it's all fine We're all fine

And hopefully by the time you're hearing this the fires in Los Angeles have been extinguished our hearts go out to those directly affected by The fires thanks for listening and enjoy the show Our hearts go out to those directly affected by the fires. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show Hey, Matt, uh ready to do this episode today Yeah, Nick. I am I'm actually really ready to do it, but I don't know if you could tell us about me right now I'm kind of in a chill zone. You seem very chill. I just want to chill out a little bit. You seem chill AF, I gotta be honest. You know what? I couldn't have said it better myself, I'm chill AF.

I'm just vibing over here, man. Just living. My life's a movie, man. I'm just vibing. Hey guys, what's going on? You guys know how to get shit out of a boot? Resident Evil Merchant, you're- Hey, Resident Evil Mer here as an evil merchant

Kind of you know harsh in our vibe kind of harsh in our vibe. Why are you whispering? I just were kind of like doing a chill episode today with kind of a chill energy up kind of just chilling out All right, I'll let you guys do it, but I gotta know how to get shit out of a boot I mean I would assume that Probably can just hose it out probably hose hose it out, get the hose sort of... I don't even want to talk about it. Maybe turn it upside down and just see if you can shake it out first. But you know what? Can I say? Boots aren't a very chill shoe.

You can just take them off and deal with it another day, man. You don't gotta do it right now. You can just chill out with us. I'm gonna try the hose! I'll be back! Okay, yeah. Oh, I gotta say that sort of changed the energy in here for a sec Yeah, I'm a little um you know I'm nice and mellow I'm having this I get this herbal mint tea. I'm having a little sip of That's good. Oh, yeah, I have a little herbal something over here. Oh That's good. Oh hell. Yeah, that'll chill you out real nice

can I say something that I Love being chill man.ill man. Hey is a there isn't even a merchant washing out that shit-filled boot in the kitchen sink? Really hygienic. Yeah it doesn't you know what. A bunch of fresh fruit there and someone's birthday cake on the counter. And can I say it's more shit than I was initially picturing. Why? It's like filled to the brim. It's like what happened? I thought like maybe there's like one turd in there. Well here's the thing.

Yeah. That's so crazy about it. I just want to say I'm like still so chill. Yeah. I thought he had like stepped and shit, but it looked like it was like filled with it. It's like filled with it, yeah. Like someone was trying to see how much they could possibly fit in there. And like if that was what- If that had been explained to me, I would have given a different answer. I would have said turn it upside down and

dump it out. I would have said throw away the boot. Just get new boots. Yeah get a new boot. It's not a salvageable situation. No yeah the boot. Alright new question! Your sink doesn't have a garbage disposal! Your sink doesn't have a garbage disposal! We are relaxed and just vibed as we play some of our favorite chill video game music this week on Get Played, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host, Heather Anne Campbell,

along with my fellow host, Nick Weiger. That's me, Nick Weiger. I'm here with our third host, Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. Oh, the first fresh hello, everyone, of the new year, baby. Let's fucking go. Wow, Matt, you are letting everyone know

that this episode is banked. Oh, wait. Fuck. I forgot. Never mind. Hold on. Okay. Hello, everyone. Letting everyone know that this episode is banked. Oh wait Nevermind, okay Hello everyone. Hello everyone and welcome back to the premier video game podcast for this week We're taking a little break We're playing it chill. We're taking it smooth and easy Kind of getting into NPR podcast mode with this episode.

We're gonna get things nice and chill. And we should let people know we are banking this episode. We're recording this in advance. This is going into Get Played Backlog. So we will release this down the line, but this is one we just got in the hopper. This is kind of evergreen. That's right, it's a little evergreen,

and you know what it also is? Pretty chill, if you ask me. It's pretty chill. Hey, what's more evergreen than chill video game beats, right? Can I say? Mm-hmm. Yes.

I think everybody has this. Y'all got like a chilling outfit when you're at home and you're just chilling? You're not wearing like your street, your hard clothes. No. Hard? Yeah, like I wouldn't be sitting around on the couch like wearing denim, you know what I mean?

I got my sweats. Oh, you know the time of year I got my favorite pair of sweats right now or you know, I got depending on when you're listening to this I got I could have my shorts on I could have my sweats on. I got a pair of house slippers on Moroccan Hmm. I'm always having I'm always comfy at home. I did not own a pair of sweatpants until 2017 Wow And then I was always formal at home. I liked being formal all the time. Like how formal? Like a suit?

I would say a button-up and slacks. Okay, yeah. But then I started to even it out. I started to chill it out. And now my favorite home outfit is sweatpants and a white t-shirt. Better than that. I walk in the front door. I'm immediately Mr. Rogers-ing it Outfit is sweatpants and a white t-shirt. Better than that.

I walk in the front door, I'm immediately Mr. Rogers-ing it and getting into something more comfortable. Hell yeah, dog. I'm discarding my outdoor clothes and I am putting on usually a light t-shirt, like a very soft tee. Yeah. Maybe I'll do a sweatshirt on top of that

if it's a little bit chilly, but usually I also run pretty warm. I'm a big dude So I'll usually just be fine with the one layer and then yeah I'm usually just wearing a a pair of sweat shorts a pair of athletic shorts, you know Something nice and breezy very flowy very comfortable. Yeah, I like to I like to be cozy and I'm always barefoot at home Once I get home that the shoes are coming off and they're staying off. You got socks No, I don't do socks. home. You don't do socks? No, no, no, just barefoot.

You don't have like a house shoe like type situation, like a slipper or something? I have like some flip flops, but that's really like if I'm gonna go take the trash out, I can slip the flip flops on. If I'm just walking around the house, no, I'm not doing like a house. So your dogs are just out.

They're just out, yeah. You got a Baja man situation at home. I got a Hant man situation at home. I got a Hantan jacket. Do you guys know what a Hantan jacket is? No. A Hantan jacket is kind of like an indoor soft padded coat like this.

Oh. It's very cozy. It's got the consistency of kind of a small pillow. Yeah. Cotton on all sides, like a You know, cotton on all sides, like a thick layer of cotton on all sides. I got it because it was a Gundam collaboration. Hell yeah, you did.

So I got a Zaku Hanten, and boy, putting on like a big pillow to like sit around the house? Excellent, good times. I used to be at work in an office, and work with a Sulu show, and it was one of those things where just like to be at work in an office and work with a Sulu show and it was one of those things where just like, you sometimes in an office and it's just like the cooling is just like, it's awful.

Like it is one of those things where like this particular room, it got so fucking cold, but you could not adjust the temperature for just an individual room. Like it would adjust it for three floors. The hell of an office. Exactly, it for three floors. And so everyone— Aaron Ross Powell The hell of an office. Yeah.

Aaron Ross Powell Exactly. So everyone would get like super—everyone else would get super hot except for the occupants of this office where we were fucking in an ice box. We're like in a walk-in freezer. So what I basically—what I ended up doing and then other people ended up doing as well is I got a snuggie that would wear at work. So I'd be at work the whole day and like sitting in a writer's room wearing a—I had a leopard print snuggie that I would wear.

And it was so comfortable. But I was also like, this is so – what a dumb way to live that I have to do this just because we can't regulate the temperature adequately. Yeah. When it's – my favorite comfort level is when it's like 60 degrees outside. I'm at home. I got some nice socks on I got some sweats on and I have like a crew neck sweatshirt. That's the zone for me. Yeah, I love a crew neck That's like I'll never be more comfortable in my life

Sam our our our guest engineer today Sam Rogich. Rochelle is out Sam You get you got any how do you like to lounge when you're when you're at home? Are you chilling dog? Just put on yeah, like running shorts and some socks. Yeah. But sometimes it just doesn't hit until I'm about to go to bed. I'll be just wearing my day clothes until I'm home. Oh, sure.

Sure. Which I wish I cared more about my comfort, but that's just the reality. You gotta take care of yourself. You gotta just be comfy. I think being comfy is the best feeling. It is the lesson we learned during pandemic, for sure. Yeah.

The ongoing pandemic, we've learned to be comfortable. You know what? I think my sweats purchases went up 300% during that time, I'll tell you that. Man, I love it. And I just love chilling, I love being chill. You know when you are chilling, when you got some perhaps chill beats to study to, maybe you were back in your dorm

room. And so we thought because this one's going in the backlog, we would do a what were you playing talking about things that we were playing back in our chill beats to study two days at university. Back when you were at college, what were you playing? What were you playing? Hello, it's me the resident of the university, trying to do NPR voice, quiet, chill, low key.

God, if you ever were actually on NPR, what would you even be doing? Maybe you'd be on Planet Money discussing being a small business owner. Hey, you know what? Beam me up to that planet. The IPO was met with frustration. Like that? I mean, yeah, it's pretty... I mean... The CEO was ousted in a late night bloodbath

What were you playing in college or in school? That's the topic of the day Nick wow Resident Evil Merchant, thank you so much for for teeing me up to go first I thought I thought I was I was I was thinking about this and I was like, I want to talk about something that I haven't really talked about at any length of the podcast previously and what I landed on and I think this is the case. I don't know if I've brought this game up before. Maybe touched on it.

But it's a game I just put a lot of time into when I was in college. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. This is a 4X turn-based strategy game. I thought it was the first game from Firaxis, which is, you know, Sid Meier's developer. He did it with Brian Reynolds and some others. It's still going strong, very, very successful strategy developer, but it's actually the second that Sid Meier's Gettysburg came out a couple years earlier. But basically, it is a game.

So the end of – one of the win conditions of the Civilization games is that you can make a spacecraft that can travel to settle another colony on another world and it goes to Alpha Centauri. So this one kind of starts with the premise of like you're arriving at Alpha Centauri. It's not necessarily connected directly to the Civilization IP. It's kind of implied, but it has a similar sort of way of playing. So it's basically about colonizing a distant world in a post-Earth scenario. Very early on, you're just like, oh, well, you're not connected to Earth at all.

You're now just kind of on your own trying to survive. And it came out in the aftermath, I think, I think maybe a year after maybe a few years after a Sierra game with a similar premise that was hyped and ended up being a disaster is called outpost. It's like one of the worst, a famous like just absolute flop both critically and commercially, just a completely broken bug ridden game. It's one of the most disappointing games ever picked up at launch. I was so hyped for it. And it was just like absolutely did not deliver.

But this one did. Sid Meier's. I was so hyped for it and I was just like, absolutely did not deliver, but this one did. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is awesome and it's so well done and it's one of those things where it's like got so many, it's got great gameplay mechanics, but it's also got these like really like heavy science fiction themes and so much futurism, so much hard science that it makes me,

it made me feel stupid because it starts to feel abstract because you're just like, you can't, these are the concepts. I can't really wrap my head around – like I understand the idea of inventing horseback riding in a civilization game, but the idea of inventing like nanotechnology or whatever that – whatever the equivalent is in Alpha Centauri, it's not like the same sort of thing that you can wrap my head around.

But it is a very cool game and it has this sort of depressing streak to it, which I think is part of its charm, which it's thematically about whatever new planet we'll land on, we'll figure out how to ruin it and destroy each other. It's basically where it ultimately lands. We're going to harvest its resources, we're going to turn it into an ecological disaster, and then we're going to go to war. But I mean, one of the leaders I remember is CEO Nobutake Morgan and his faction, because it's just like civilization. You've got all these different factions that's splendid from this space colony.

I think it's called the Morgan Corporation. He just runs his his or Morgan Company. He just runs his his civilization like it's a corporation, which is like really bleak. But it's like that's also like, it's just where we're headed, I guess, in a few years, probably on Earth. And there's a thing in civilization called Wonders of the World that, you know, in the civilization will be like, hey, we're building the Eiffel Tower. It's a wonder of the world.

We're going to get this big, tangible bonus as a result of doing it. Or like the pyramids of Giza, like every civilization, every era of history, rather than necessarily married to any specific civilization can build these wonders of the world. What they have in Alpha Centauri is secret projects. But again, because it's living this dystopian future, there's a huge total difference between building the Colosseum and inventing essentially like a defeating mortality and people becoming brains in jars. So one of them, I've queued one of these up because it would play this video when you

achieved one of these secret projects. This one just because it kind of gives you an example of the sense of progress but also like just – it's like you've done something momentous but at what cost is the feeling of all of these. This one is when you – we have the project, which is the cloning vats We shall take only the greatest minds the finest soldiers the most faithful servants We shall multiply them a thousand fold and release them to usher in a new era of glory Colonel Corazon Santiago, the Council of War.

Jesus Christ. So all that narration and that ominous sound design is playing. What you are seeing is a chicken processing plant. And the process they were actually doing there is they are separating male chickens from female chickens because the male chickens, because they cannot lay eggs and because these are being raised for eggs, not meat, are immediately destroyed. So what you're seeing is you're seeing chickens being separated and then the males just like basically right after birth being sent into a

Maserator that just turns them into meal that's fed to other livestock really really grim shit And it's talking about that and applying it to humanity of just like we'll reach this point We're like congratulations you invented cloning labs now you can call the weakest and just focus on cloning the strongest Nick yeah, this is the chill episode Nick? Yeah. This is the chill episode, dog. What the hell? Very cool game. That's awesome. I mean, not awesome, but it's like cool that like something like that is in a game even.

That's very interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm surprised they can't do that before they hatch. Like it's surprising to me that they can't tell that they're male chickens before they hatch and then just destroy the eggs don't give me Any ideas such a fucking bummer to be born and then ground up my guess is that they can but this way is just cheaper Right. That's probably yeah. Yeah, I mean that a hundred percent What's the cheapest way we can make a billion dollars

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Nice. I'm in college and I'm like, this college stuff is pretty crazy. And no, I wasn't just trying to... It kind of sounds like I was saying stuff because I was, I couldn't unlock my iPad, but actually I was able to do it. Got it. What? I wasn't stalling because I couldn't unlock my iPad.

I was like talking normal. Do you not know how to unlock your own iPad? Is that your iPad was I this is mine and was I typing in The year 2010 and not my password absolutely You know 2010 interesting year for games Not really like games that Were like quote-unquote like chill, but these are games that was playing a lot and games that I have talked about at length of course but the god of war 3 for example comes out in 2010 and

I actually just Replayed the opening of god of war 3 pretty recently. I've were remastered god of war 3 remastered and was like this game fucking Rips if you don't remember it the end of God of War 2 Kratos teams up with the Titans and the Titans are fucking climbing up Mount Olympus ready to kill Zeus and fucking everybody It's crazy. So the game opens with that sequence and you're just traversing different parts of a Titans back and there's like platforming sections on the on the Titan and it rules it is so good and it just

Communicates the scope of the game so well and so like it just is awesome. It's insanely violent as well really really great the other game I'm playing a ton of at this time is The first Red Dead Redemption thus which is of course the second in the Red Dead Series of games the first being Red Dead Revolver, which is completely different But Red Red Redemption is Your I want to call him James Marsden, but it's Marston Those are two different guys with a similar sounding name. Yeah, I guess so

I guess it is pretty similar to James Marsden. Can you imagine if he was in the game? The hedgehog franchise and jury duty Anyway, kind of crazy. Hey, you know, he very well might be he's in everything. He's in everything. He's good in all of it He's good. He's good this guy. We love him. We love to watch him and stuff anyway, I'm playing Red Dead Redemption and Obviously like this. like, this game really sets the table for Red Dead Redemption 2 later, which is the best version of this possible. But not knowing that, playing Red Dead Redemption so much and just like, just experiencing the

open world in the wild west, going into Mexico and doing all sorts of crazy stuff. Just really, really loving that. But I also, I wanted to highlight some games from the year 2010. That walk into Mexico in that game is so fucking good. It's awesome, it's so great. And I actually, I bought the port of this for the Switch. I was playing this on my Switch, and let me tell you something,

they shouldn't have done that. Yeah. It makes the, I mean, it plays fine, but it chugs. It is, it's, you know, it ran pretty good on the PS3, I will say, but the Switch is not the PS3, is it? That's kind of incredible. Yeah. It's not. It's not, but it plays.

Nick is looking into the distance. No, I'm, is the Switch, does that, the Switch have less horsepower than a PS3? It might be similar, I guess. Or is that, or it's just kind of a shoddy port, I don't know. It plays decently, but I bounced off of it

because I was like, am I gonna do this again? I played that game, I replayed it a couple of times. It's a great, that's a great one. We're of course talking about the Switch, not the Switch 2. Not the Switch 2. Yeah. Not the Switch 2. The Switch 2. Not the Switch 2. Yeah. Not the Switch 2.

The Switch 2. Great machine. Make a regular Switch 2. Super fucking fun. It's so great, it's really, really good. Day one drop, bought it. I'm having a blast with mine. I love it.

You know what I love about my Switch 2? Knowing what its name is. Yeah, I love that. I still call it the Switch 2 because I'm thinking about it as like, you know, like the pre-release hype for so many years. But we know, of course, know what it's actually called. But you know what's so crazy about that too is like, obviously,

knowing what it's called is so good and I love that. I also love knowing what the games are. Yeah, that's also a good thing to know. I love having the games and knowing them. I called the Switch 2 because for years after the GameCube was released, I just called it the Dolphin. Right. Like its internal code name was for development.

Yeah. The Dolphin. Or the Nintendo 64 being the Ultra 64 for a while. Yeah, but we anyway, I mean, we're not, look, the Switch 2 episode, you heard all about it already. We loved it, of course. But we're not talking about the Switch 2 anymore. So, some games that I came to later that were released this year, which is not the exercise, but I gotta shout out these two games from 2010 that I think are two of the best games I've ever played.

Okay. Alan Wake, which I became a huge remedy head after playing Alan Wake Two years ago yeah, and also halo reach Halo reach is so fucking good, and it was a game was that was the first game. I played through on my Xbox series s and I'm not a halo guy. I like Halo Fine. Halo Reach is incredible. It is so good. And I wish I could play it again for the first time.

It's magnificent. Wow. It's a really, really great game. What a year 2010 was. But that's what I was playing and what I could have been playing had I had an Xbox in 2010. Heather, what were you playing? So when I was thinking about this, I was reminded that at our student center at college, there was a room that they clearly had no purpose for.

And so they put two arcade games in it. And those arcade games were House of the Dead, the original, not even House of the Dead 2. House of the Dead and Marvel versus Capcom 2. Which you couldn't, I mean, like, not even House of the Dead 2. House of the Dead and Marvel versus Capcom 2. Wow. Which you couldn't, I mean, like, if you're just gonna throw quarters into machines as a college kid, those are great machines to throw quarters into.

Sure. And I would often- Probably should throw some in the laundry machine. I should? In the college student. Oh yeah, for sure. About you. Famously not good at budgeting though.

And some of them, hygiene is an issue as well. Yeah, true. So I would play a lot of House of the Dead and Marvel versus Capcom too. I don't know, like, I don't know why they, like maybe they had those machines since they were released, or maybe they were purchases for this weird space.

But I often would go through the student center on the way from one class to another, just so I could play around one of the two of those games. Or if we were doing like rehearsals for a comedy show, like when people take a break, like to go smoke a cigarette or to eat, I would go down in the student center and play Marvel Capcom 2 or House of the Dead.

To my knowledge, there were almost never anybody on either machine, ever. So I didn't co-op and I didn't versus. Oh, damn. Which also was kind of nice. Yeah, sure. Like to have private access to a Marvel versus damn. Which also was kind of nice. Yeah, sure. Like to have private access to a Marvel versus Capcom 2 machine was kind of cool.

So I think more than any other game, those two games stood out because they were just randomly in the fucking basement of the student center at Northwestern. I was, so I went to UCLA and I'm so fucking old that the student union there had a full arcade. Like it was like, it had like just like, it was like, you know, like 20, 24 cabinets

or something. Holy shit! It was like a, it was like a full-size arcade. It was like what you would have at the mall. And they had a dance dance revolution machine that was like, you know, kind of facing towards the common area. This is all on the ground level, so it's very accessible. But I worked on the campus bookstore for one summer and summer and change, so into the

fall semester a little bit. And the songs from the Dance Dance Revolution machine would drive us fucking crazy because they'd just be looping all day long. We'd just be hearing the same thing. And it was just like, you know, like any sort of retail job There's very often a soundtrack. I know like certainly people who are like hey that they're The restaurant they work at or whatever has like a set playlist and so they're hearing the same songs over and over again But just hearing like the distant sort of loud and constant same few tracks of

I am your little butterfly, you know all like the fucking dances revolution originals It drove it just I mean I made me have a break from reality to a certain point I'm kind of surprised this hasn't really come up that much on this show. Yeah, DDR is so fascinating to me yeah, cuz it had such a It had such a cultural footprint like it was everywhere and so many people Were suddenly experts at it. Like, I feel like as soon as I became aware of what it was, people were immediately very good at it.

But from my point of view, there's only two ways to play. One is to dance sort of like rhythmically, like to move sort of rhythmically on the thing, or stomp on it as hard as you fucking can. It's like, there's no in-between. It's very fascinating to me. Yeah. That whole era of dance dance through the end of rock band

is kind of cool. That gaming went through almost like an adolescence where it was like, oh, I was really into music for a while. Right, right, right. You know? Yeah, now I don't like music. Yeah, now I'm not super into music. Now I'm like free to play,

but I was like into music for a while. I might do music if it's a mode in a game that's free that I already have. Yeah. Well, it kind of rolled into the Wii, which was like the next, and now I like sports. Now I'm like active.

Yeah. And then everyone was just like, no, what I like about video games is like, I get to sit down and like, and like basically use a remote control. I want to do one thing for 150 hours. Yeah. That's this.

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Chill music. I'm going to kick things off. We've all got our own tracks. Oh, shit. Okay. But I'm just going to start. I'm just going to go first because there's one that has to be played. And I think this one kind of sets a baseline of what the exercise is.

This is look, we know what's common. Donkey Kong Country Aquatic Ambience from David Wise. Maybe the Ur chill video game music track. I didn't put it on my list because I figured somebody else would. Yeah. I put it on my list because I just figured it kind of has to be here. When I told Mary what the topic was, she said aquatic ambience. Yeah. Like Mary. Immediately. Mary's so cool. Yeah, Mary's the best.

Just a banger. It is one of the most iconic pieces of video game music, and it has such a longer tail than the game itself. Hmm. Maybe. I don't think people play Donkey Kong Country as much as people listen to aquatic ambience here in 2025. It's David Weiss scores one of the best video game scores ever. I think the I think in defense of your point, I think it kind of established the AU RAL oral grammar for what is a water

Environment in a video game because I feel like there's a lot of water tracks that are derivative of aquatic Ambience and what it's set up and I echo the dolphin obviously the other the other one that kind of did a similar thing Yeah, good stuff Sam you any are there any chill guck songs? That's a great No That's a great question. The answer is no. Hell yeah. This episode is about chill stuff, but also not being chill is tight too. It's the yin yang. Exactly. You gotta have not chill.

Sam's band Guk, check it out. What's the URL? At Guk Band on Instagram. Then we have a live video on YouTube and then there's a song on Spotify right now. Check that out. Nice. Heather, do you wanna go next? Sure, I'll go next.

My idea of chill, little bit different than aquatic ambience, but I still think it's a chill song. I think it's a chill vibe. It feels like a chill morning. And that's Whirling in Rags, 8 a.m. from the soundtrack to Disco Elysium. The composers were British Sea Power. And yeah, let's play this for a little bit.

It's always good to return. ["Sailor Moon"] It is super chill. Man, I gotta play it again. It is super chill. Man. I gotta play it again. I love it. It's great. It's great replay. It's so fucking good.

It kind of perfectly both like sort of feels like morning but also like a little bit like you have a lingering hangover. Yes. It's just a little bit, you know what I mean? You had a night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a question about this version of it. It almost sounds like the drums have been stripped out.

Maybe maybe no drums for the morning. Yeah. Well, I mean, they're different. They're different tracks, different versions that play at different times of day. Yeah. I'm not sure which one this is. No, this is the one I wanted. Okay. But it feels almost like maybe the YouTube link I sent is a little defanged.

Could be. But it's still a smooth, chill vibe. Very good pick. Very, very good. It's the, I've spoken before of my breakfast mix, which people have asked me to share. I'm never gonna share it. It's the, I've spoken before of my breakfast mix, which people have asked me to share. I'm never gonna share it. It's my breakfast mix.

I don't want anybody else out in the world listening to my breakfast mix. But this was the first new entry on my breakfast mix playlist in probably seven years. Wow. Wow. And I was like, oh, that goes on the list. Well, they can't have the full full mix but they know one song on there Yeah, if you talk about another song at some point that's on there. Yeah, they could piece it together

They could assemble it like I've assembled Hemingway's radio from everything that he wrote about That's true, I love it Here's okay, let's do one of mine. Yeah, you know what this one's gonna be a shocking one, okay? I don't know about trying to be chill. I'm gonna shock you guys right now. Okay, great As I mentioned in I mentioned previously in episodes many many moons ago I've been playing stellar blade. Let's fucking go. And the thing about Stellar Blade that nobody's talking about is how fucking good the music is in this game. It's incredible music.

There's little base camps that you can stop at to like heal and buy items and stuff. And this is one of the songs you can hear at the base camp. It's called The Song of the Sirens. That looks a little a little chair at your little campsite. There's like a little vending machine where you can buy potions or grenades. You can upgrade equipment, add to a skill tree there. Move the camera towards the boobies. And then conversely move them away.

Rotate down under the butt. Ha ha ha ha. Then back up to the boobies with the camera. You can do all sorts of crazy stuff with this camera, but you can also just be like so chill hearing this song. And I'm catching some vocals here. This is great. This is my first time hearing this.

I have not played the game, but. I would imagine it's a lot of people's first time hearing it. You know what, Nick? It's going to be your favorite game of all time. It's going to supplant. What's that one? Baldur's Gate 3? Yeah, Baldur's Gate 3 that you love.

What's that game? Baldur's Gate 3? Oh. Oh. This is really good. This is a great choice. It's so good. Not on my radar at all.

You got to hear the soundtrack and then play the game. As I said before, extremely satisfying. All right, I got another pick. So I feel like I'm the resident kind of point and click adventure, graphic adventure fan, puzzle game fan. And you know, back in the day, the LucasArts games famously had some great music. I was going through this and I was trying to figure out what is the great chill LucasArts adventure track. And what I settled on is from a game I really, really have a lot of affection for and a composer I really like, Peter McConnell,

this is from the Grim Fandango soundtrack, a Tim Schafer game. This was maybe his last game before going on to make Double Fine, maybe his last game at LucasArts. But the track is Lost Souls Alliance. Alliance. Hell yeah. And even though we're in kind of like a minor key here, it is still like very chill. Yeah, I was about to say, I'm feeling pretty chill right now.

I could study to this. Yeah, I could study to this. Yeah 100% But also I can see myself dancing Yeah, it's like in socks yeah socks Just a shimmy just a little bit Got one hand up in the air one hand sort of like my tummy It might be a little tricky to dance to.

I used to have a better ear for this, but I think this might be in five, four time signature. It's kind of in a little bit of an odd cadence. You don't know this about me, Nick. I can dance to anything. This whole soundtrack is awesome. This is like one of the best video game soundtracks. It's just really impressive in its breadth and also just in terms of evoking all the

various moods of the various areas and the various scenes. It's really well done, but I think this is a great track. I don't know if this franchise has come up enough for me to admit this. Yeah. I've never played a Grim Fandango game, but he's a- I think there's just the one. Is it just the one? I think there's just one, yeah.

I always was like interested in him. Is the main character's name Grim Fandango? No, the main character's name is Manny Calavera. Okay. Calavera, of course, meaning skull. This is like how little I know of it. I thought the guy was Grim Fandango. I'd be interested in your take on it. It's, you know, it very much, they did remaster it

and they remastered the soundtrack as well. And it is very, you know, I don't know exactly what your tolerance is for this kind of gameplay. I know Heather's tolerance for it is zero, but like it is walking around in dialogue trees and, you you know solving puzzles Some of them are a little obtuse but most of them in Grim Fandango are pretty well and well designed and I think it's like kind of like pretty much like the the

When this formula had kind of been perfected got it. So I yeah, and it certainly is an is an awesome story It's like I think it's like a really really well like it's it spans four different years Each of the different acts is a different year, and it's just basically Traveling through the land of the dead so it's it's a really really cool Maybe I should give it a try cuz I don't like I don't like leisure shoot Larry I didn't like day of the tentacle even though that everybody loves that but I did love The case of the Golden Idol. Yeah, I would say this one is, I mean, it's not as silly,

like Day of the Tentacles is like looning tunes. This game is a little bit more serious, a little more grim, if you will, but it also has a good sense of humor to it. I think you might like it. I'm gonna have to check it out. Yeah, mess around with the remaster. All right, Heather, what's your next pick?

Well, I thought a lot about what kind of music we would be showcasing today. And I was like, oh, I could, you know, I could do the camping theme from Final Fantasy 15. I could do these like big, these big songs that maybe people have heard before and they'll be like, oh yeah, I know this song. But instead I challenged myself to think of some chill music that maybe

we haven't showcased on the show before. And so my next pick is from Mario Paint and it is a background song from Mario Paint. It is so chill as to be almost non-existent, but it still has a vibe. It's chill as to be almost non-existent, but it still has a vibe. Whoa. Hell yeah. You just trying to come up with some things to paint? Maybe I'll try Mario's face.

Nintendo has always been so good at this. I mean like the kind of like in negative spaces and like liminal sort of zones. Yeah. Just like having some sort of background music that just makes you feel like you're vibing. I mean, one thing I apologize if I'm stepping on anyone's future picks, but like all the Wii shop music. Yeah. Yeah. Just the Wii shell music in general is just like you usually bring up

like just like the weather app and Wii and why would anyone look at that? But it's just like it sounds so cool. I almost brought in the Wii weather song cuz I heard it on the fucking stupid app The stupid ass Nintendo music Reason I was listening to it I used to I used to watch the news on the Wii and and like loved that little song to Isabel from Animal Crossing is reading the news Isabel from Animal Crossing is reading the news. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Never Drake. Never, not Drake anymore, certainly. So yeah, that's some of the-

That's what we said about the Switch 2. Some of the background music from Mario Paint for the Super NES. Very good choice. Okay, to continue on with stuff we haven't really played on the show before. Nice. I'm gonna bring in a song from a game that I played and absolutely loved

and I think you guys would like it too. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. This game has a lot of amazing things going for it. The music is all incredible stuff. I picked the music that plays specifically when you're wandering in the Gunga region. ["Gunga Region"] So you're like going around this area and you're like, you're cloud, maybe you're running around this cloud and you're like, I gotta find one of those fuckin' towers

or something and turn it on so I can have more of my map unlocked And maybe there's like beasts that you got a sleigh on the way, but you're having a chill time and oh, what's that? A bird that's flying toward this like crystal button mashing minigame that you gotta do now Let's go follow that bird. I gotta get that so I can complete more of the map as well. A lot of the game is doing stuff so you can complete the map. It's extremely good and it's like a little more upbeat, a little more like faster paced than some of the stuff. Sure. But like you can still be chilling and be a sort of like, in like vacation mode kind of. Yeah, those are delightful.

It was a big regret of mine to not go to the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth concert that they had. Big mistake. Is this a, is this kind of a tropical biome? What kind of environment? Yeah, it's sort of like a jungle adjacent. This is great. Very, very good. Maybe I'll get around to playing rebirth someday. We'll see.

Yeah, it was I mean I I loved it. I know you loved it, and I loved to remake, and I just didn't I didn't follow up I'm part of the problem. I part of the reason like sales dipped You know 70% for this the next entry or whatever. I bought it twice and haven't played it once. How did you buy it twice? I bought the collector's edition and it wasn't coming and so I bought it twice and haven't played it once. How did you buy it twice? I bought the collector's edition and it wasn't coming. And so I bought the digital version. I forgot. And then I didn't play it.

Because I just want to sit down with it like a meal. Yeah. And when do I ever have those times? The thing about it that I will say is that I completely understand why somebody would not play it at all. I want to play it. Love those haircuts. Oh, yeah. Nick, it's your turn. This is the whole thing here is that like I'm making this list and I'm like I have...

You checking it twice? I'm checking it twice. Gonna find out who's not here nice. I have so many possibilities, so many options, and I'm trying to narrow the sum bitch down. And it's just, there's just too many possibilities. But I'm gonna play a couple here. One, because it's short,

and it's basically like an eight bar loop, but I think it's just so chill. And it's one of the first things I think of when we do chill vibes. The other one is a fuller song, and one that probably is much better known but I'll keep the first one team eco before they made shadow of the classes which we discussed on the podcast at an all time master beasts one of the greatest games ever made and the most influential games ever made they made a titular game called eco eco is kind Shadow of the Colossus, but it's a great game in its own

right even though it's a short walk. And the save theme called Heal by Michiro Oshima and Koichi Yamazaki is to me just so, so chill. This track. It's like a bench you can hang out on all day. That is really good. Really nice, right? Really tranquil. And it sort of also kind of just says safety, sanctuary. So that's the first one. The next one I'm going to play, a similar era in gaming, a little bit earlier, from my favorite, controversially my favorite Final Fantasy game on the PlayStation 1, Final Fantasy VIII, Nobuo Uematsu's Fisherman's Horizon. Oh, nice pick. I gotta play this one.

The remaster is really nice. Yeah, I have it on switch. I guess I could play it on my switch too. Yeah. Because it's backwards compatible. It's backwards compatible, which is something we know. It's true. We do know that. We do know that. That's a tranquil little melody here. I think Uematsu must be proud of this particular track because it is almost always featured on piano compilations, symphonies. It occurs so much and given the dwindling popularity of Final Fantasy 8 that's sort of like falling into our rear view, it's incredible how often Fisherman's Horizon comes up.

It endures. Also, kind of an inconsequential part of the game. Sure, yeah. This is what's notable about it. Yeah. Anyway, those are my couple picks here. Interesting selection though, too, because fishing, the act of fishing, unless you're like deep sea,

pretty chilling of itself. Yeah. Kind of just like a river or something. Not for the fish, the fish are having a bad time Look some food what the heck they're going crazy. I'm in space That's so funny. That's so crazy, yeah. This next track is a track very few people have heard, I think, probably in the West. It is for a Game Boy Advance game called Orbital, which was part of the art game phenomenon

for bit generations, Nintendo releases, where they were just trying to make these little provocative trinket games. The soundtrack to each of these games was really, really good and really, really minimalist to try and propel the experience. And also, I think they were put onto these cartridges in real audio or something like that. So they have a really shitty fidelity, but that also adds to how chill they are.

And so this is a rip right from the cartridge, and this is the song Satellite from the game Orbital. You hear how it sounds like it's coming through a bad radio speaker? Yeah, 100%. Like the speaker on an OmniCord or something. Now, you add that to it coming out of the Game Boy Advance speaker, and it had this really pleasurable quality to it. Yeah. Also kind of reminds me of the Final Fantasy intro that's on every game. Yes.

The Prelude. Oh, for sure. I'm going to have to check these games out because I have no frame of reference for them other than you mentioning them before. You can always borrow one. Or you could just put them on a fucking ROM card. Anyway, that's Satellite from Orbital. Just a little piece of maybe lost Nintendo music, largely lost in Nintendo music.

Isn't that something? A Nintendo product. Yeah. Like, myself included, a lot of people are just hearing that for the first time. Yeah. Insane. Well, they're also such a weird company that some of their stuff, they'll just archive and hide

and tuck away, and it's just, well, they won't be available intentionally. It's not even in their shitty app. Okay. I forget that app even exists. I have it on my phone. It's like on my home screen. Very silly.

Very silly thing. So I've played music from this game before, Animal Crossing New Horizons, a game that all the music in it is just phenomenal, in my opinion. It's very, very good. But I'm going to share a track that I haven't shared before that you could miss. You could miss a lot of the music actually, because if you're not playing during a certain time of day, you might not hear the 6 a.m. music or whatever,

or you might not hear, you might just not hear some of it. Yeah. This is the music from the aquarium area of the museum. The aquarium area of the museum. So in the way that aquatic ambience evokes being underwater, this sort of evokes the feeling of looking at water. Ha ha ha ha ha. Like you're sort of, you're watching like an entire life form live its life

in the way that they think that they're used to living it. But you're watching them do it. You're like this omniscient God watching them swim. And they have no idea, no frame of reference for why you're watching them do it. You're like this omniscient god watching them swim. And they have no idea, no frame of reference for why you're there looking. Oh man, that thing in outer space is looking at me. This portal to hell is... I hope I don't eat the wrong sandwich and end up there. I like the reverb on this., it sounds like an empty room like yes

It's weird how much of Animal Crossing is lonely It is interesting because especially with New Horizons and of course probably on the new one That's coming pretty soon to the switch to On in New Horizons, I feel like the big thing was that you got to play that with people. But like so much of the game you do experience by yourself. Nobody's standing around watching you do a bad job decorating your house. Right. It's solitary, but it also feels purposeful.

Yeah. I don't know. It's interesting. Hey, that's a great pick. Hey, we're just going to do a few more here. I've got so many options that I could get to. I would want to have included something for Persona 5 Royal, certainly some incredibly chill music in that. Lots of great vibes.

One of my favorite games, Stardew Valley, there's certainly some things I thought about including there. But right now I'm thinking about the words of Andre 3000, what's cooler than cool? Ice cold. And when I'm thinking about chill vibes, very often I'm thinking about snow. So we got a couple snowy tracks and we'll play back to back. First up, this is one that's well known and I feel like it's pretty essential for a chill music playlist. For Metroid Prime, Fendrana Drifts by Kenji Yamamoto with Koichi Kuma.

Here a little bit of this bad boy. It's kind of like a false sense of security. Yes. Because the song is chill. Yeah. But your time in this game is not at all. It's kind of like an avatar sort of thing. It's like an environment that's like beautiful and could be serene, but it's also so dangerous

that things are trying to kill you at every turn. Really, really enjoyed replaying this on the remaster. Me too. God, yeah, that was my first time with it too. I loved it. Yeah, great game. And the other one I want to play in this quick one too, the game Undertale, of course, has such a great soundtrack.

And Toby Fox, who is, you know, like the composer as well as the designer of this game, multi-hyphenate. This, it sounds like snow. It really does. Sounds like looking at snow. Yeah, you're inside. And you're watching the snow. When the strings come in, it's just such like a cool variation on the already established piano. Pumpkin theme. Really just gorgeous orchestration here.

This is the type of stuff that I'm like, how do you even do that? Really just gorgeous orchestration here. This is the type of stuff that I'm like, how do you even do that? Like you make a game, you create this entire world and you're also like, you know what? The music too. It's going to be fucking incredible. Yeah, I think people should do one thing. Yeah, one and also like don't do it that good. Anyway, those are two picks in mind.

I did two in a row, so I'll let each of you give your final two. Okay, great. Well, for my last, hey, I wanna pull this to the forefront. Maybe a lot of people haven't heard it. From a game that a lot of people have played in the East, but not so many people have played in the West, it's Mother 3, which I've brought up on the show many times.

Yeah, I wish I could play it. I just don't have a copy of it. Yes, you do. You literally have a copy. Can I tell you something about my copy? What? I have it still, and it's in a place that is visible to me, so I can feel bad about not playing it.

And I look at it every single day, and I feel bad that I've disrespected my good friend. Once you start it, though, it'll just be like falling down a hill. It'll just propel itself. No, I'm not offended. Someday you'll play it, and you'll be like, I can't believe I spent more of my life having not played this than after my life. It's like when you get, there's only so much, anyway.

It doesn't matter. My final words as the sun crashes into the earth, Heather was right. I got a couple credits on the game and then, in generate. This is Sorrowful Tasmily from Mother 3. Sorrowful Tasmily from Mother 3. Oh, that's lovely. Yeah, this is so good. Her a peskyo, so chill.

Can I ask you something about Mother 3? About what we're seeing here on the screen real quick. Yeah We're seeing the title screen here mother three There's sort of metallic looking Typeface and it's covered by what looks to be wood from a tree. Yep That part of it Yeah Good question, I'm just interested out like that it's an interesting image great question yeah I don't know if I've ever noticed it

before as many times as I've looked at it I guess I've never seen it so big yes it's it's metal with wood growing over it or wood that is being chipped away to reveal metal I won't tell you which. I got to try this. What I like about Mother 3 is that it comes long after the Super NES. But has like the Gameboy Advance, like which I think is slightly more powerful than the Super NES. So it's like the best looking Super NES game. Okay.

All right, that's it. That's powerful Taz Millie. And then for my final song here, boy, I got two bangers here, but just in case you missed the episode where we talked about it, the composer is Dean Evans. The game is Waterworld.

Hell yeah. For the Super Nintendo, which has a soundtrack that absolutely should not be in the game. It is so fucking good. This is the map theme from Waterworld, the Supreme NES game. This is like the soundtrack to a TV show called Beach Cop. It's so funny to imagine like putting together this just like shitty licensed game. Yeah.

It's like doing the science fair in grade school. And you're like, OK, I'm going to make a volcano. OK, I'm going to somebody else is going to make like I'm going to test like four different kinds of paper airplanes. And then some kid comes in and they're like, hey, so I learned that if you add these two liquids together, you can generate electricity. And and my dad's submitting it as a research paper to the University of Wisconsin. And you're like,

okay, I saw, can you make a necklace from paper clips? Well, the funniest thing about this too is that this is a song in a video game based on a movie where people have to piss into things and then purify it and drink it. Yeah. Kevin Costner has gills in the back of his ears. Anyway, that's-

We've all said before, by the way, it's a good idea and it could, I think they should revisit the idea of Waterworld because it is good. The Waterworld IP has potential. They could- Figure out what to do with the Mariner and the Smokers and the Deacon. Yeah. There's good stuff there. Give me a limited series, a Waterworld limited series. The most expensive television show ever made.

Filment in the middle of the ocean. Yeah, so that's Waterworld for the Super NES. We've talked about before on this podcast that the music has no business being that good. I'm going to play a song of my final two. A song from a game that I don't think is actually very chill at all. The game itself sort of reminds me of like smoking cigarettes actually. The game is Bellatro and this is the theme song to Bellatro. This track is the ultimate chill though. It's so chill but there's no way you could learn

from hearing the song how stressed you'll become and how much you wanna do it again and again and again. That's just extremely good shit. One thing I think is great about this song is just how long it is. Like it goes through so many different variations before looping back upon itself. And I think that's part of why you're able to like, listen to the same, I mean, some people eventually play with the music off and I think it's somewhat designed to you

know be able to be enjoyed that way but like I always play with the music on. Like I just, I think it changes forms just enough throughout the course of an individual run that you don't ever really get sick of it. It's definitely, it's often my second activity. Like I'll either be like watching like Survivor or something and playing Bellator on my Steam Deck or listening to a podcast and playing it or whatever. But I always have the music on just a little bit because it's just so good. So that's my penultimate track, my last track here. It wouldn't be a music episode

if I didn't bring in a song from Kingdom Hearts. Oh yeah. And this is certainly a song that I've played on the show before, but I gotta play it. It's the town theme from Kingdom Hearts 1 from Traverse Town. ["Travels Town"] Oh yeah, this rocks.

It's like a, it's kind of just walking around chilling. You might go into an item shop, you might try to buy some armor or something. I really like my life, but hearing this song makes me sad because of how young I was when it was playing. Sure. Yeah. And how hopeful I was. Yeah. Even though I'm extremely happy and the things I was hoping for have all come, like they basically come true.

Yeah. Like I wanted to be a writer and I'm a writer. Yes. But hearing this song fills me with so much aching and sadness. You wanted to be on a podcast that made you mad all the time and you are. Yeah.

The thing I thought you were gonna say is that you're sad that Traverse Town is not a place you could go. That's where I thought you were going. No. That's what my head was. And this song is like more of my life. It's like my life, my life. Yeah, yeah.

It's also because we waited so long for Kingdom Hearts 3, that it felt like something that was so far in your past. Yeah, well luckily Kingdom Hearts 4 is coming out later this year. Or soon. There's no fucking way that game is going I just love the music in Kingdom Hearts It's so good, it's so fucking good It's just, it's some of the best. Traverse Town is so fucking good

Yeah, imagine you lived somewhere and that was just on Really good. Well you kill yourself eventually. Well yeah. that was the loop in your, the town where you lived, shut this fucking music off. If you were in some sort of- It gets some work done. Cute, silent hill. And- This-

God, that song, can we hear it one more time? Just a little bit of it. I know there's a listener out there that feels the same way when they hear it. I have a, is it weird that I have a specific flavor in mind when I'm hearing the song? This never happened to me before. That is weird. I'm a specific flavor in mind when I'm hearing the song this never happened before that is Weird I'm thinking of like a hazelnut coffee. I mean that makes sense

But it's kind of weird for a track to make you think of a flavor of flavor. Yeah, I I get it I don't really disagrees with me, but it is I agreed it is weird. Oh They're not going for the hazelnut all the time my whole life Oh, they're not going for the hazelnut all the time my whole life Yeah, that's just good stuff. That's really good. Yeah. Thank you for letting me hear it again Before we wrap this up I do have one more I want to play because I want to shout out the composer for our theme song Ben Prunty Who we have a number of great soundtracks including? FTL and it's, FTL Advanced Edition.

And there are so many great chill tracks to pick here that I was going through all of them and I was ultimately like, you know what? I think the title track, which is called Space Cruise, is kind of like the chillest of all. This is your onboarding for the game, plays every time you boot it up, and it's just chill as shit. A game I've messed around with a little bit but haven't sunk my teeth fully into, but I can tell that it's very, very good. I got hundreds of hours in FTL. I actually came to FTL later after playing Into the Breach, another game by the same

developer that also has a Ben Pronti score. And FTLA, I put so many hours into it. It's just a really, really compelling design. A great score. And that's a big part of why it's so replayable. But how cool is it that the composer of this also made the theme song for our shitty shitty podcast. You can contain multitudes, you know, you can make a good song for something actually good or you can make a good song for something that sucks. You can direct Apocalypse Now and Megalopolis. How dare you. What? Nick hates Apocalypse Now.

Alright, let's do a segment. Alright, here we go. Thank you Ben. Thank you Ben. I have something I'd like to read. Can Heather and Nick identify the song that has been reversed? Welcome to hell bitch, it's time for Matt's little game. God damn it. Ah, fuck. So what I'm hearing here is, Oh my God.

The feedback I've gotten from you guys in the past is that this game sucks and you don't like it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I modified it slightly. It is a music-based game. It's a music-based game. I kind of thought it would be appropriate. In the past, what I had done is I pitched the game down, or I pitched the song down, I slowed it down, and then I reversed it. And what that sounded like was complete and utter hell. Yeah. And it was also too hard. So I've removed several layers of this game.

Okay. The songs are now just reversed. Got it. Oh, this might not be the balance. This could be it could be maybe too easy, actually. But I think I've picked some things here that aren't going to necessarily

stick out right away. So, Sam, why don't we play song one? I can't really wrap my head around this. I thought it was one thing, but... And whoever guesses it gets a point, I should say. The thing about it that's interesting from my point of, is that it still sucks to hear Uh a Song from the game was played

Fuck I don't know. Um, I was gonna I don't think it's this it's not this just say but just I but I'm just gonna guess because I kind of just like was hearing kind of like the the vacillations that I was gonna guess it's The title theme rockering of time is incorrect. Yeah, Heather, would you like to venture a guess? I don't I have no idea what this is. Okay, do you give us any hints? I'll be a fucking fool if I say. What's the, what's the, what's the, If I tell you the game, it's gonna give it away. What's the platform?

For the Nintendo Switch. It's a Switch game, okay. Oh, is it Animal Crossing? It is the theme song, the theme track, the title track, Animal Crossing New Horizons. That is correct. Hearing it backwards though, I can't even hear

what it sounds like forwards properly. Do we have it the way it normally goes? ["Animal Crossing New Horizons"] So nobody has, I guess you know what? Nick has a point because he did guess Animal Crossing. I don't want a point. You don't want the point? No, because I got it wrong first and then Heather didn't guess and then I needed to hit.

Okay. It's still at zero zero. Let's go ahead and play song two and don't be cute and play theur one, Sam. As a reminder, all these songs have been reversed. And what that means is I opened up Pro Tools, I clicked on Audio Suite, I went to Other, and I clicked Reverse. And then I hit Render. Wow. Talks a talk

Sam and I were bro and down earlier about Pro Tools. Don't worry about it. I mean it sounds like It sounds like I know this isn't what it is It sounds like like the ghost house track from Super Mario Brothers, but it's the Super Mario world But it's not that because it's missing Brothers, but it's the Super Mario World. But it's not that because it's missing the bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup. You're right, that is incorrect. Well, I didn't guess it.

I'm telling you what it sounds like. Yeah, it definitely has like an ominous character to it, but I can't place it from this. It's a bit of a mystery, isn't it? You don't really exactly know what it is when you start it. And then you start to sort of maybe learn a few more things about it as you listen and as you experience it more. Is this a clue? Well, maybe. Maybe it's like a sort of type of clue that you might find in a, I don't know, a 2 sort of game where you don't really know what's going on actually.

And then you start to figure it out and you're like, wait, actually I do know what's going on kind of, I think. And then you find out you actually don't. There's more to it than what you thought. Oh my God. I don't know. Maybe I'm just saying stuff. I honestly don't know what this is. I have no idea what this is.

This is the main theme from Animal Well. Oh Jesus. And what I said was a clue actually, wasn't it? Yeah. I haven't heard that theme enough to guess it. Oh, she said was a clue actually wasn't it yeah, I I Haven't heard that theme enough to guess it like if you played that theme forward I would be like I don't know which one this is I guess what I'm remembering now as the person who played animal Animal well the most it was me who played the most not you guys. Okay, great I would have I but I did play animal

I might have gotten it I like if you just played it for like like normally I might have guessed it, but hearing it backwards. I was like I'm fucking adrift. I have no idea okay Sam go ahead and play song 3 ok this one will go great. Yeah, I think you guys can get this one ok This is the overworld theme from Final Fantasy 7 Heather has one point there we go See this is what I was worried about, the balance being. No, I think it needs to be like this level, though, of obvious to even have a chance of identifying it going backwards. OK.

It's a good note. It's a work in progress. We've done this segment a bunch of times. We also don't have to do it a bunch of times. No, no, no. We'll finally get it right at some point. OK, yeah, no, we'll finally, we'll get it right at some point. Okay, yeah, we'll iterate. Wait, getting one right though doesn't mean the balance is off.

It just means that I'm extremely familiar with this particular song. The game's meant to be a challenge, isn't it? It is a challenge. I didn't even guess the other two. Too easy. We can go ahead and go into song for Sam Guessing the biggest challenges for the listener of this podcast people people love it They like it because it's hard. Okay I mean that just fucking rules no matter what.

That's the kind of interesting thing you hear but the song how it goes backwards and you're like forwards the song is pretty good. And then you hear backwards like it still kind of works. Is this, is this, this isn't Helldivers 2, is it? Nick? Yeah. It is Helldivers 2. Wow.

A Cup of Liberty. Yeah. Wow. A Great Gas. Kind of this, this had this soaring aspect to it. Wow, or tied at one. Tied at one, and there's only one song left. Oh, no.

Well, I mean, good. All right, let's play song five. Look at the waveform here. The waveform has a very long tail. It's 35 seconds of near silence. Yeah. You can go ahead and skip. I imagine just a slow fade at the end.

Here we go. ["Cyberpunk 27777"] Oh, this is Cyberpunk 27777. Ah, it's the main theme from Cyberpunk. Yeah, because it sounds very distorted and... I got Heather saying it first. Yeah, that's fine. Heather wins.

Nick doesn't want to win the game. Nick hates the game so much that he doesn't even want to win. Heather's our winner. Wow. Of Matt's little game. Hey, that was Matt's little game. I would like to forfeit. Ha ha That's this week's Get Played. Hey, thanks to our

engineer Sam Rogich filling in for Shal Chen Ranch yard underscore underscore SART, our regular producer. Sam, you got anything you want to shout out? Gux playing Zebulon in March, gonna be a good show. Oh hell yeah. Check that out. If it hasn't already happened. Our music goes to Ben Prenty BenPrentyMusic.com, our artists by Deck Brigade

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