Great read Katya! Enjoyed this a lot. Really agree with you on the soundtrack for E33 too, it's been so special to enjoy both in-game and on Spotify while furiously writing about how blood good it is...
I agree with most of your picks, though I must say I haven't played KCD2 yet so I have no idea about it, which is something I should amend soon!
And thanks for the mention Katya! I'm glad that you enjoyed my nerding out over the music of Hades. Honestly, it should have won the best soundtrack award back in 2020, and no I'm not biased at all. (to be fair, FFVII Remake won the award, which, I get it but I won't budge lol.)
But for soundtracks, Hades II vs E33 has been one of the hardest decisions I had to make for this year's voting. E33's OST is just incredible, and it dominated my 'most listened' stats from the moment I played the game. Une vie à t'aimer was my top song this year after all haha. This OST is a REALLY big part of why E33 hit me as hard as it did. Lorien Testard really went all out on this one.
But I want Darren Korb to be recognized for his consistently amazing output throughout all these years, especially with how connected Hades and Hades II's soundtracks are. This is how you write a sequel soundtrack. But unfortunately it's impossible to consider them together for voting, so E33 has to have my vote on this one, as difficult as it is for me.
KCD2 is well worth your time! I need to finish it at some point, it definitely doesn't deserve to go into the DNF pile just because I got distracted by shiny new games. It's a long one though; I'm 65 hours in and about one third through? I'm a slow player, but still, there's tons of content and things to do.
Anyway! The soundtracks! I hear you about the hard choice between Darren and Lorien, it's an almost impossible one. I would absolutely not be mad if Hades II won here, but I just don't think it's likely.
We're going to have a great show on Tuesday, I just know it!
Soo many games, so little time 😭 I'm very excited for TGA and the shows we are gonna get, though I probably won't be able to catch it live due to timezones, ugh. I'll catch up with it the next day haha
Did you get any of these right? I only watched the trailers.
Quite a few, although I wasn't trying to predict the winners, really, just picking my faves. Clair Obscur won everything and then some
Great read Katya! Enjoyed this a lot. Really agree with you on the soundtrack for E33 too, it's been so special to enjoy both in-game and on Spotify while furiously writing about how blood good it is...
Thank you Liam!
I also love that the E33 soundtrack is hella long—literal hours of music when you need it.
I agree with most of your picks, though I must say I haven't played KCD2 yet so I have no idea about it, which is something I should amend soon!
And thanks for the mention Katya! I'm glad that you enjoyed my nerding out over the music of Hades. Honestly, it should have won the best soundtrack award back in 2020, and no I'm not biased at all. (to be fair, FFVII Remake won the award, which, I get it but I won't budge lol.)
But for soundtracks, Hades II vs E33 has been one of the hardest decisions I had to make for this year's voting. E33's OST is just incredible, and it dominated my 'most listened' stats from the moment I played the game. Une vie à t'aimer was my top song this year after all haha. This OST is a REALLY big part of why E33 hit me as hard as it did. Lorien Testard really went all out on this one.
But I want Darren Korb to be recognized for his consistently amazing output throughout all these years, especially with how connected Hades and Hades II's soundtracks are. This is how you write a sequel soundtrack. But unfortunately it's impossible to consider them together for voting, so E33 has to have my vote on this one, as difficult as it is for me.
Decisions are difficult, who knew!
KCD2 is well worth your time! I need to finish it at some point, it definitely doesn't deserve to go into the DNF pile just because I got distracted by shiny new games. It's a long one though; I'm 65 hours in and about one third through? I'm a slow player, but still, there's tons of content and things to do.
Anyway! The soundtracks! I hear you about the hard choice between Darren and Lorien, it's an almost impossible one. I would absolutely not be mad if Hades II won here, but I just don't think it's likely.
We're going to have a great show on Tuesday, I just know it!
Soo many games, so little time 😭 I'm very excited for TGA and the shows we are gonna get, though I probably won't be able to catch it live due to timezones, ugh. I'll catch up with it the next day haha
You'll wake up to the flame wars over the results, no doubt 😂