i am once again remembering how good the Furi (2016) OST is

i am also once again remembering the incredibly conflicted and ambivalent feelings i have for that game that well up each time i hear how incredible this soundtrack is

seriously? the toxic avenger, carpenter brut, lorn, and danger on the same fucking project????

Furi’s development studio (The Game Bakers) struck gold with that OST and gold leafed a hotdog with it

like dont get me wrong, the game is fine. it’s fun, the aesthetic is cool, but there were just so many times when the music was backseated and fumbled in awkward ways for the sake of highlighting the story or some cutscene and it’s fucking tragic. i feel like if the game had handled the music with more care, that game could have gone from awkward but pretty fun to goty / fav of all time for me. all they had to do was really pay attention how strong the soundtrack was and use that to their advantage as much as they possibly could – even if that meant cutting cutscenes and dialogue

the most egregious example of this fumbling was the ending of the game when Make This Right is featured. i cannot tell you the fucking noises i made when i heard this song start playing in the game. unhinged is putting it lightly

but the problem is that the song cuts in and out three separate times as the game transitions from gameplay to cutscene, awkwardly stopping and starting the song. it completely kills all of the tension and build up that the song has. by the time the fighting actually happens, i was already completely frustrated with how often they’d staggered the pacing and interrupted the music. they could have literally cut 95% of the talking and all of the cutscenes in favor of something less intrusive and it would have been so much more emotional and impactful

angy about furi again