The following is an episode of With a Terrible Fate’s weekly podcast discussing video-game storytelling from all angles. Find all episodes here.
Iconic musical themes from games such as The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, or Undertale are deeply ingrained into the minds of any avid gamer. This week, With a Terrible Fate video game analyst Laila Carter joins us for an exploration of how these and many other leitmotifs frame, complement, constitute, or even subvert video game stories.
- Main Story
- 00:05:04 Musical Leitmotifs (with Laila Carter)
- 8-bit Music Theory
- The Legend of Zelda Theme, Kōji Kondō
- Zelda’s Lullaby, Kōji Kondō
- Ballad of the Goddess, Hajime Wakai & Takeshi Hama
- Temple of Time Theme, Kōji Kondō
- Hyrule Castle, Manaka Kataoka & Yasuaki Iwata
- Ballad of the Wind Fish, Ryo Nagamatsu
- Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, Motoi Sakuraba
- Hollow Knight Title Theme, Christopher Larkin
- Sealed Vessel, Christopher Larkin
- Karma (Tales of the Abyss Opening), BUMP OF CHICKEN
- Meaning of Birth, Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura, & Motoo Fujiwara
- Unbreakable Chains, Yoko Shimomura
- Octopath Traveler Theme, Yasunori Nishiki
- Super Metroid Soundtrack, Kenji Yamamoto & Minako Hamano
- Magmoor Caverns Theme, Kenji Yamamoto & Kouichi Kyuma
- Angel Island Zone Act 1, Brad Buxer, Michael Jackson, Cirocco Jones, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, & Jun Senoue
- Angel Island Zone Act 2, Brad Buxer, Michael Jackson, Cirocco Jones, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, & Jun Senoue
- Hydrocity Zone Act 1, Brad Buxer, Michael Jackson, Cirocco Jones, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, & Jun Senoue
- Hydrocity Zone Act 2, Brad Buxer, Michael Jackson, Cirocco Jones, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, & Jun Senoue
- UNDERTALE Soundtrack, Toby Fox
- 00:05:04 Musical Leitmotifs (with Laila Carter)
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