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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9845927" data-attributes="member: 18">I always love "OH MY GOD THEY'RE GOING TO SING!!!!" moments in games, and that is definitely one of the peak ones, especially as it's full pipe organ and choir backed. And yeah when the boss comes in, that's just Sephiroth boss fight level "Omg what is this YES YES YES" musically.(Possibly relevant - I love opera and possibly my favourite moment in an opera is when Don Giovanni is dragged to hell by the Commendatore - yes I am basic but at least it's Mozart not Wagner!)Some other classic videogame music moments for me:Sephiroth boss fight in FFVII as mentioned - I think that was maybe the first time I really heard videogame in-game music go totally wild and involve a chorus and so on:[MEDIA=youtube]mYdf0yqK_Fc[/MEDIA]Dragon Age Origins, when it suddenly becomes obvious half-way through a dialogue that Leliana is going to sing for real - not as amazing a piece of music as some, but hella vibes:[MEDIA=youtube]SIjCSUQHFcM[/MEDIA]Dragon Age got me again with the out-of-nowhere song, in Dragon Age Inquisition, with I think the superior bit of DA music, certainly more emotionally affecting for me  - Some day the dawn will come:[MEDIA=youtube]AgYxMVRtJr4[/MEDIA]The first time I was really BLOWN AWAY by just the music of a game in general was Streets of Rage 2 - SoR1 had good music, and I'd heard decent music, I think even orchestral music on CD games before that, but SoR2 was absolutely INSANE and is rightly a legend (as is the composer). Here's a video of a music nerd getting very overexcited analyzing some of it:[MEDIA=youtube]2cx73EOaGWU[/MEDIA]Then what about the first game I played that used "real" music incredibly effectively? I'd say that was the original WipEout, one of the few game CDs I've had non-gamers borrow (and work out how to get to play on normal CD plaeyrs, I think you had to do some kind of skip trick back in the day) so they could listen to it:[URL unfurl="true"]https://youtu.be/LRqvXotb9b4?si=4oFr3Ic2ORPbCBgN[/URL]With my personal favourite being Messij, which goes incredibly hard to this very day:[MEDIA=youtube]noKHpvJATWU[/MEDIA]I could go on but I'll leave off for a bit there. I will say I'm currently playing Limbus Company, and I was delighted when I found out each  of the Canto bosses (like acts, I guess, but there are 9 so far because it's an ongoing game) has their own theme, which has vocals and changes over the course of the fight, and is just really cool (and obviously very relevant to what's going on emotionally in the boss fight). And then the Canto ends with technically the same song every time (I think) but in a different style, and sung by the main character the Canto was about (not including any examples because MASSIVE spoilers for an ongoing game).</blockquote>

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