Tuesday 23 October 2018

Faults in game soundtrack

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne is the third main game in the JRPG series Shin Megami Tensei. In my opinion, SMT Nocturne has a very good soundtrack. The only flaw is that in-game, the quality of the soundtrack is heavily downgraded. The reasons for this are unknown, and high quality versions of the full battle themes containing all solos are nowhere to be found on the internet. In the game’s OST, only the first verses can be found in high quality.


A way to solve this is for ATLUS (the developers of the game) to release the full battle themes in high quality. They can’t add them into the game due to it being a Playstation 2 exclusive. However they did mention that they’d consider a remake of the game, which could feature high quality versions of the OST in-game.

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (or Sonic Chronicles) was an RPG based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise by Bioware and SEGA for the Nintendo DS. The soundtrack for it were MIDI placeholder songs, since Bioware’s deal with SEGA ended before they could create the full soundtrack. The only complete song in the game is the opening theme.


Similar to SMT Nocturne, this game was released for a console that cannot receive game updates. A way they could’ve fixed this was to have the composer(s) work on the complete soundtrack whilst the rest of the team worked on the other parts of the game.

Skyrim

Skyrim is the 5th game in The Elder Scrolls series by Bethesda, and has been remastered/ported to many consoles. There is a problem with the audio. When walking on snow, the walking sound is out of sync with the animations.




To fix this, workers at Bethesda could’ve walked around on snow (at the time of season), and timed the  sound with the walking.

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