Posted on: April 26, 2024

NM64
Verified ownerGames: 83 Reviews: 2
Not really into it...maybe it's just me?
I find this moderately reminiscent of light-hearted/non-dramatic/non-adventure-y music found in Zelda Wind Waker. It's funny, reading about this OST being "JUST THAT GOOD" where people have payed full price and found it to be worth it. I view myself as an audiophile music enthusiast yet, despite buying this at half-price, I still don't feel like it's my cup of tea—maybe it's just me? Key examples of music that's "my cup of tea" (I noticed after they're just a few years apart): -Fate/stay night (VN; usually the non-2012 remixes) -Clannad (primarily the non-remixed found in non-HD VN & anime) -Metroid Prime 1/2 -F-Zero GX -BONUS: music by "I've Sound" from mid-2000s (savvy VN readers may notice my username as the audio person for the F/sn Ultimate Edition fan-patch project; I also used custom F/sn music on what I believe is the normal difficulty speedrun record for Metroid Confrontation v1.1—an AM2R game engine demo) All above examples only had OSTs in Japan, so I had to extract music files directly from the VN/game data files. On that subject, the VN is actually cheaper so I HIGHLY recommend buying that first and demoing the OST that way; it even uses the open-source Ren'Py (version 7) engine so there are freely available tools to unpack its RPA files and access the 256kbps OGG vorbis music files. Don't do what I did and buy the VN and the OST at the same time—GOG's VN sale was ending a day earlier than I thought so I couldn't use the 24-hour refund turnaround to spend on the sale. PROTIP! The date GOG lists as when a sale ends is the first day the sale will NOT be active, not the last day of the sale! At the very least I gave this 3 stars since I do appreciate lossless, yet it uses WAV rather than FLAC which seems odd when even Windows 10 supports FLAC out-of-the-box? (I say this as a Linux user) But even as an audiophile music enthusiast, I wouldn't dare claim to hearing a fidelity difference between lossless and the VN's extracted 256kbps OGG vorbis files.
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