Editor’s Note: Stephen Meyerink is an editor at RPGFan, and he is head of the Soundtrack Reviews dept there as well. He was gracious enough to submit this review of the ilomilo original soundtrack for OSV. Thank you, Stephen!
There’s a lot of game music out there that lacks character. The kind of music that, for whatever reason, just can’t seem to stay stuck in your head. Sometimes it sounds phoned-in. At other times, it just seems uninspired or overly manufactured. At other times, you have a selection of music that just doesn’t seem to be consistent with the rest of the game it accompanies.
ilomilo‘s music is definitely none of those things.
However, I suspect you’d rather have me define the music by what it is, rather than what it’s not. If you want more, follow along after the jump. (more…)