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Aquaria => General => Topic started by: Joey245 on February 20, 2010, 03:05:09 am
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Title says it all. Aquaria has loads of great music, but some tunes stand out more than others for people. Just out of curiosity, what are your top five favorite songs in Aquaria? If you would like, feel free to explain why its your favorite.
Mine are:
1. Open Waters 1 (or The Traveller on the OST)
Pretty much the anthem for the whole game, IMHO.
2. Mithala
The collective boss tunes for this deformed deity are five different kinds of awesome.
3. Remains
I love this song so much. It's sad in a happy way, mournful in a cheerful way, and depressing in an uplifting way, if that makes any sense.
4. Arboreal (or Heart of the Forest)
Natural sounding, mysterious, and so thrilling, Heart of the Forest really is what made the Kelp Forest my favorite area.
5. Open Waters 2 (or Lost Waters)
It's really Aquaria's version of a "driving song", the kind of song you play during a long journey to get yourself pumped for what's ahead.
That's all I've got. How about you guys?
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Mine are:
1. Open Waters 1 (or The Traveller on the OST)
Pretty much the anthem for the whole game, IMHO.
2. Mithala
The collective boss tunes for this deformed deity are five different kinds of awesome.
3. Remains
I love this song so much. It's sad in a happy way, mournful in a cheerful way, and depressing in an uplifting way, if that makes any sense.
4. Arboreal (or Heart of the Forest)
Natural sounding, mysterious, and so thrilling, Heart of the Forest really is what made the Kelp Forest my favorite area.
5. Open Waters 2 (or Lost Waters)
It's really Aquaria's version of a "driving song", the kind of song you play during a long journey to get yourself pumped for what's ahead.
That's all I've got. How about you guys?
Quoted for truth, but Arboreal is my favorite. Great thread. ;)
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Quoted for truth, but Arboreal is my favorite. Great thread. ;)
Thank you. BTW, awesome avatar you've got there. Who would have thought that Naija would look good in a human hat?
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1. Title
Well, this was the track which forced me to buy this game. You could say, 'love at the first sound' or something. The menu screen, and I just stared and listened this eerie and haunting music. No need to say more :)
2. Remains
Definitely one of the best tracks. It just fits the atmosphere - ruined and empty city where Naija wanders. A bit melancholic, I love how tempo changes, a bit, like lingering for a moment.
3. Sun Temple
Hehheh, simply love this! Excellent puzzles in that temple, and this "machinery"-like music playing on background. Unique. It reminds me of "sounds from the past when those machines were build by that old civilization"...
4. Archaic
Aquaria theme + excellent music for travelling and exploring. Haunting, like "you never know what you might face after next corner" feeling.
5. Icy Waters
This was the last zone I travelled before continuing to the End. Very beautiful place altogether. Calming music, feeling of 'heart of winter and ice' indeed.
It's very hard to describe music, because if you dont know the "technical" aspects, you have to study how do you feel towards it... and it seems I could list all tracks here; I listen here as I write and... "this is good too, and this... oh wait a moment, how about this..." :'( Agh, I surrender.
Altogether, every track is just amazing, and what I especially like, all of them have this "climax", "culmination" or "special part" (I dont know if there's a term to describe this) which makes it unique and exceptional. For example, track "Cathedral" has a very nice beautiful moment at 1:08 - it gave me goose bumbs when I heard it at the first time. "Dark Places", at 0:45. Or "Fallen Breed", such a unique feeling. Or the last battle, heroic theme of the "Worship" (4:37). And the beautiful piano music in the track "Ending"... Plus "Lost to the Waves" with its singing part... damn.
Not to mention this beautiful Aquaria-theme you hear in most of the tracks. I have a saying that "every good game/movie has a own theme music". Aquaria is no exception to this rule.
PS. this is a bit off-topic, but Marian -Travelling -track which came with OST is also extremely interesting. Very nice theme.
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Thank you. BTW, awesome avatar you've got there. Who would have thought that Naija would look good in a human hat?
Thanks - it's actually artwork by Konjak, the maker of Noitu Love and Noitu Love 2: Devolution. Mina of the Pirates (one of his abandoned projects) feels like Eternal Daughter.
Original drawings (NOTE: I had to crop the pictures, so some pics on the website are NSFW) :):
(http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp101/msutters/TanAgain.jpg?t=1266720205)
(http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp101/msutters/Konjak1EDIT.jpg?t=1266720149)
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Naughty naughty, Chibi. =p
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1. Lost to the Sea - A lovely song but feels just a little sad, given the games ending, the bittersweet feel works perfectly
2. Fallen Breed - Has a very final and climactic feel to it... Appropriately shows the tension of the gauntlet
3. March of the Krotites - A short piece which has an awesome buildup throughout the piece
4. Mystery - A very subdued tune, feels almost like a nursery rhyme
5. Remains - An excellent mix of melancholy and discovery, one of the better Atlantis-like tunes I've heard
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5 songs, huh... This will be hard.
Open Waters 1
Remains
Veil
Worship 5
Light
In no particular order.
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Goddamnit, why only 5 songs!? There's just too many good songs in Aquaria.....
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Goddamnit, why only 5 songs!? There's just too many good songs in Aquaria.....
I dunno. 5 seems to be the magic number for these types of threads. Gives you plenty of choices for favorites, but still challenging.
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Wow, it is a challenge. I'm just going through my soundtrack and picking out my favourites. I keep thinking about how each one always reminds me of how I felt the first time that I heard the music, usually alongside what was happening in the story.
So let's give this a try. Any other day my list could be different. They're in no particular order.
Archaic (Energy Temple) - I love the underlying arpeggio and percussion that gives it a militaristic rhythm. There's a sense of the chambers echoing for me, and the main theme coming in gives it a continuity with the rest of the world. Also that wailing kind of sound, not sure how to describe it, but it's cool. It fits the worship of destruction perfectly.
Boss Fraught (Mini Boss Fight) - It's just kickass, get-up-and-go music, and I love it.
Cathedral - It's odd to say, but I like how scary it is. Without the music, the cathedral wouldn't have scared me half as much. The underlying drone, bass line, men's choir kind of sound, the bells... just perfect for the place.
Dark Places (Abyss) - It was this one or Lost Waters. They're both so mysterious. I remember finding the Abyss scary too, but listening to the piece on its own (without being scared about what might be lurking just beyond my vision) it's really beautiful, but kind of mournful.
Ending - When the soft piano comes in playing the title theme and the main theme, the waterworks start flowing for me. It's so simple and beautiful, and suits the feeling of catharsis and revelation at the end. You feel like, in his destruction, that the boy is freed in a way.
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Icy Waters
Icy Waters
Above
Icy Waters
Icy Waters
Words do not describe how much I love Icy Waters. I can hear that song, and no matter what my mood is I'll start smiling. The Frozen Veil is easily one of my favorite areas, and it's a fantastic reward for exploring the game.
Above gets bonus points for its introduction. Breaching the surface for the first time (upside down, whoops ;D) was truly breathtaking, partly due to this song.
I suppose I might as well list three more.
Cathedral
Dark Places (both for much the same reason as Arachne)
and Undiscovered Waters, which replaced The Traveller as my idea of the main theme for most of the game
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Yeah, I also love Undiscovered Waters. It always reminds me of the first time I played the demo, and I swam out into the Open Waters and realised, "Wow, this game is huge!" I wanted to explore more, and tried to calculate how much I could see before the trial expired. I think it's the rushing waves and the boldness of the main melody at the beginning that really get me.
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Its too good...it brings near nature to us...soothing to eyes......positive energy!
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Its too good...it brings near nature to us...soothing to eyes......positive energy!
Either you've got synaesthesia and a bad case of ellipsis syndrome, or you cranked out that ten-second post on a legitimate thread. Either way, you're a spammer, and Alec's got an itchy ban finger. Alec? Alec? Damn... :o
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Either you've got synaesthesia and a bad case of ellipsis syndrome
That actually sounds like a lot of fun
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Guys, could you please just ignore all the spambots, it would make the cleaning up a whole lot easier.
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Guys, could you please just ignore all the spambots, it would make the cleaning up a whole lot easier.
Sure - once their posts are deleted, I'll remove mine.
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Suddenly my picture seems a lot more accurate...
No seriously, I feel like a freaking prophet now. This is ridiculous.
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March of the krotites
sunken
thats it i cant diside the other 3
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Suddenly my picture seems a lot more accurate...
No seriously, I feel like a freaking prophet now. This is ridiculous.
What do you mean? :)
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Maybe prophet was too strong of a word but my point still stands.
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Maybe prophet was too strong of a word but my point still stands.
Still don't know what you mean. What did you foresee, oh great one? ;)
[EDIT]: Realized that just before I read your reply. :)
We've actually got some smart bots out there posting in our good topics, the most posts I've seen from a bot is eight. I'm actually not sure if these are bots or people (person, since they all seem to come from the same source(Hormel Foods Factory)) but still no less spammy. I think I can safely say that my picture over in the fanart section is more or less an accurate depiction of what's been going on.
Cheers! ;D
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I mean the picture, where we're fighting all the spam bots. When I got the idea there we're only a few spam bots here, now there are a lot more.
Suddenly my picture seems a lot more accurate...
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x.x digging up an old thread but I HAD to reply to this xD
1. Title - The first time I played the demo I just sat there listening to this for ages and watching the fish swim around.. it made me really really want to play the game
2. Remains - Has that feeling of a long forgotten city.. it fitted Mithalas really well
3. Veil - The music fitted the veil really well.. a feeling of peace and content
4. Suntemple - It sounded very much like the shining sun to me for some reason xD and gave off a really happy feel
5. Lost to the waves - reminiscence
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1. Worship (Especially the part starting from 4:20)
2. Mother and Father
3. Heart of the Forest
4. Light
5. Fatal
6. Sun Temple
7. The Body
8. Lost to the Waves
9. Fallen Breed
Sorry top 5 was not enough
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The music really was the best part of Aquaria - it helped set the amazing atmosphere just really well. All of the songs pretty much fit the ambiance of the various areas too. I couldn't possibly gush enough about the music but that's preaching to the choir, so I'll try to list my favorites
1. Remains - Mithalos City - I love the aquaria main theme...and this is such a...well..haunting version of it. Totally fits the melancholy majesty of the city too, and the emotions you can imagine Naija feeling as she first sets eyes on the city. Nice, long intro, but when the music finally swells at 35-36 seconds in it's just too impressive. Gave me goosebumps the first time hearing it.
2. Arboreal - Kelp Forest - This was the first area I went to after open waters, in an attempt to find the surface - what a feeling it would be when I finally did - but arboreal is not for that. It's just a really upbeat tune that's at the same time kind of chill, it's just fun to listen to. Considering I was just starting to get the hang of controlling Naija and actually dodging enemy attacks, I had a lot of fun just controlling her in the environment to this tune.
3. Light - this is just such a peaceful, mellow tune. It's incredibly calming, and totally fits the innocence of the areas it plays in, starting out hearing this tune just set the mood right for the game, made me really just want to enjoy it. Also, it's more of the general Aquaria theme that's so solid. My favorite part is actually the ending when the more standard aquaria tune hits in, but softly. at around 1:15. So serene.
4. Open waters - It deserves to be on this list. It's, again, just a different tone of the standard Aquaria theme, but it works great. I was totally underestimating the game around the home waters, looking at the map and thinking "okay it's solid but not too large" and then I hit the open waters...and this theme greets me as well as a map impossibly large. It is, fittingly, just a more expansive version of the home waters aquaria theme, or it seems to be - a bit more echoing of a tune, hard to put into words, but it fit the feelings I saw when I opened my map and just saw it expanding into infinity and realized the game had so much more to give me than I was expecting.
5. Miniboss - It's just such an energetic, pumped up version of the aquaria theme. Totally gets me ready to go and fight things, but in that swift, agile way Naija controls. Not a frustrating theme either so if I got stuck on a boss the music helped keep me WANTING to fight instead of just getting frustrated and wanting it to be over already - more to the point fitting the music, my feelings of wanting the fight to end would be desperation as I got low on healing items/health! Which this sortof frantic theme fits that emotion, too.
It's really hard to rank songs. I'd like to also mention the song that plays after you've gotten Duo form and are tearing your way through the Body to get to the final boss. Such a well, this is an overused word, but epic song, really. Fit the mood so well of finally having power, and the means to fight back at that that's been tormenting Naija and Aquaria, and just totally decimating enemies that would've given you trouble before.
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Worship 5: Epic feel, it really wrapped things up. Whatever just happened, it's come to a point and must be dealt with.
Seahorse: Horsies! It's just a good song.
Openwaters: This is Aquaria.
Undiscovered Waters: Dang this place is big.
Icy Waters: Wow, I just listened to that one. Really sad, but also christmas-y.
-K
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I finally got to listen to Fear the Dark and it was amazing. I have throw in a late mention of that song.
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Remains
Lost Waters
Icy Water
Undiscovered Waters
Mother and Father
Fear The Dark wasn't really in the game... BUT I LOVE IT
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I'd have to say...
1. Lost to the Waves
2. Fear the Dark (Sad, but still amazing.)
3. Sunken
4. Sun Temple
5. Title
:)
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Not to burst your bubble, but Fear the Dark isn't in Aquaria, only on the OST. =p
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Oh well. It's good enough to deserve mention as one of Aquaria's tracks. (And it actually is on my version.)
So pthht.
-Percival
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It's on the Aquaria OST, I think that makes it fair game.
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1.inevitable
2.fallenbreed
3.probably losttothewaves :)
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1.) Bright Waters. I really like the way this song meshes well with the corridors leading to the Veil. All those long, peaceful tunnels leading ever up towards the light with this playing in the background, building to a slow, gentle crescendo. You know something fantastic and joyous is up ahead.
2.)Li's theme. And here's the culmination of that joyful anticipation. This music makes it feel like everything is going to be all right for Naija from now on (it's not , but that's how you feel when you hear it at least).
3.) Fallen Breed. A real "rock opera" piece. You just KNOW you're on your way to kick some ass!
4.) The part of "Worship" that plays during the Creator's Final Form. Perfect climax music.
5.)Heart of the Forest. One of my favorite parts of the game has always been Naija's playful, exploratory personality. This song sums up that aspect perfectly: bright and sunny and adventurous.