Superflat Games’ Flash-based miracle of an adventure game, Soul Brother, is well worth playing. Certainly one of my favorite Flash titles in the last two or three years. (Here’s the link to play, by the way.)
I wrote an email to game creator/compsoer Jasper Byrne, aka “Sonic,” begging that the soundtrack be released somehow. This Daft Punk-esque electronic house masterpiece was stuck in my head, but I had no way to “take it with me.” I wasn’t going to run through the game over and over to hear it, and I sure as heck didn’t want to try and create my own gamerip. I gave some incentive in my email: “sell the thing on bandcamp.”
It took a few months, and while I never got a response to that email, I did get my wish. Released in September 2011, the Soul Brother soundtrack is not the cheapest digital soundtrack: 5 GBP, or about 8 USD. Compare that to, say, the pay-what-you-want soundtrack release for Bloodrayne: Betrayal by Jake Kaufman, and the pricetag to the Soul Brother soundtrack might dissuade you. But I’d urge you to listen through the audio first. If you liked, say, the Shatter soundtrack, I think Soul Brother will win you over too.
More after the jump, my soulful brethren!
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