Can I speak to the composer for the zone music in the Labyrinthos and ask what was the thought process they had when making this music? Like no offense but when I first heard it I thought my headphones were broken. The music in this zone sounds like zombie children trying to eat your brains while being dressed in a clown suit. Fixing that music needs to be a priority. To any developer who sees this thread please forward it to your composers.
Very grating music in the Labyrinthos
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05-22-2021, 01:40 AMVenandiVery grating music in the Labyrinthos
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05-22-2021, 01:47 AMGameronkeyboardthere are three things that can happpen with this music, this being a Dungeon music, like we've seen in lakeland, or something that is to sound a bit unsetling like the kholusia one and then change after you do what you must do, or is the song of the zone, but incomplete.Quote:
Originally Posted by Venandi
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05-22-2021, 01:55 AMVahlnir
It's a strange track but I'm pretty sure that's the point of it. Strange music for a strange zone. Personally I didn't mind it. I just thought it was unusual.
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05-22-2021, 02:00 AMSannaR
Did you also have the same reaction to Saint Mocianne's Arboretum Hard's music? As that also has a distorted music playing. Sure one is a dungeon you only hear while doing said dungeon and one is a zone you can teleport to. Many feel that with what little we know about it the music is there to help represent the feeling of where that is somewhat fake. With it being underground with a man made day-night cycle.
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05-22-2021, 02:00 AMGameronkeyboardjust the begining is really unsetling, at the time 0:28 it starts to look similar to the olds JRPG, and this was a really nice touchQuote:
Originally Posted by Vahlnir
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05-22-2021, 02:03 AMAvatreIIRC, didn't they say that zone is underground during the live letter/keynote(can't remember which one it was stated in, but do remember hearing it said). That could partially play into why it is such unusual sounding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vahlnir
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05-22-2021, 02:04 AMBunniEclair
I love the Labyrinthos music and can’t wait to see how the zone is involved with the story.
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05-22-2021, 02:09 AMRosenstrauch
It sounds like a giant toybox to me. Yeah, it's kind of annoying. But I don't think it ought to be changed.
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05-22-2021, 02:33 AMJeeqbit
The area exists underground, so it's a completely artificial sun and sky. The music is trying to make you feel like it's all a wind-up, clockwork, mechanical area and it does that very well.
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05-22-2021, 02:35 AMArillynThat was the feel I got from the music too and if that's what Soken is trying to convey it totally fits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeeqbit
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05-22-2021, 02:41 AMJonnycbad
The grating aspect of the music is very likely intentional. Given the dialog in the intro trailer, it seems like the Sharlyan council has in mind to survive the final days, perhaps using Labrynthos as their doomsday bunker. That itself gives Labyrinthos a nefarious and unsettling vibe.
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05-22-2021, 04:24 AMInfindox
The music is intended to be bizzare and unnatural because everything about Labyrinthos is. It's a mechanical environment underground which may or may not be a shelter from the world ending above. It's kinda like how the Arboretum HM music sounds like it's a dead mall playing music from speakers.
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05-22-2021, 04:29 AMTaleraRistain
I'm pretty sure it's intentionally supposed to be that way. It is something that my ears will need to nope out of before long if that's how it sounds in game, but I can appreciate how spot-on they are with setting the environment.