![]() If Unleashed’s soundtrack was entirely this, I’d consider it my favourite OST in the series, honestly. ![]() Unleashed leans heavily on exhilarating speed, and in that way it feels like its own spin on Sonic as a concept, one which the music backs up wonderfully. Everything about Sonic was always built around this feeling of energy, platforming, speed, exhilaration. DA DA DA-DA DADADAAAAAAAA DA oh my god I hate this song so much. ![]() How do the bassy undertones of Cool Edge (Night) fit into the energy Unleashed should have? How does the late night jazz club feeling of Skyscraper Scamper (Night) fit?ĭon’t even get me started on the werehog battle theme, a blaring cacophony that plays whenever you fight monsters, which may I remind you is most of the werehog’s gameplay. It works to make a nice song… but it doesn’t fit. This is a jazzy, slow, mellow song, nice and easy to listen to, but how does it fit in? Or Rooftop Run (Night), which is again, pleasant and nice to listen to, but it deliberately drags and feels lethargic. The nighttime stage music is just kind of… seperate from the rest of the game. It’s alright, but, why is it here? It doesn’t fit at all, it doesn’t capture the uplifting energy the game should be about. But musically? It’s pretty alright! That’s just it though. The werehog is not great in gameplay, let’s just get that out of the way, and shows a certain lack of confidence in the game. The snare never stops hitting, the violins soar, the guitar makes it all sound weighty, it is absolutely one of the most upliftingly energetic songs Sonic as a series has ever produced, and is a poster child for the soundtrack’s strengths as a whole.īut, like I mentioned earlier, Sonic Unleashed has two halves, and the other half is… hm. Don’t even get me started on the famous Rooftop Run, which is just, wow. Dragon Road leans heavily on drums on the offbeat for these bursts, with flutes and pianos filling the sound out. Windmill Isle is muted, yet still has this constant movement in the drums and cymbals, with an energetic violin going up and down in the background. Go to a desert and you’ll have desert themed energetic tracks, and so on.Īnd what an amazing sound that ends up producing. It uses it as a way to inform the theme of energy – so, go to the arctic and you’ll have ice themed energetic tracks. That’s the focus of Unleashed, really: while it is a world adventure in story, it doesn’t use that as a driving muse like in Sonic Adventure. It absolutely sets the tone for what Unleashed is best at: high energy songs filled with adrenaline and uplifting power. The lyrics are cheesy as all heck, but hopeful, joyous, and punchy. The drums in the background are high energy and never stopping, while the guitar lifts the song up and up in tone and in feel. Now, like it or not, you can’t deny that it is a song that leaves a super strong impression. ![]()
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