



If your mind works best to the soft sounds of a thoughtful symphony, there may be no better option. The music in this game does an incredible job of playing organic sounds off of each other, while interweaving them with beautiful, cautious bits of orchestration. (Honorable mentions go to the soundtracks for Super Hexagon and Undertale, which are also iconic, genre-defining chiptune masterworks.) Hollow Knightįew games in recent memory have done ambience and subtlety better than the Hollow Knight soundtrack. Suggested entry points include Pushing Onwards and Pressure Cooker. Composed by Magnus Pålsson, the square-wave jams of PPPPPP - the soundtrack’s official title - are energetic and engaging, but respectful enough of your head-space that studying can still be performed at peak efficiency. If chiptunes are the order of the day, there’s no better to be found than those on the VVVVVV soundtrack.

For a taste of what’s in here, I personally recommend the songs Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) and Burly Heart. This thing contains over 40 of the most shred-tastic instrumental metal jams ever pressed, from symphonic power epics all the way down to the grimiest sludge available. Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival #Reloadįor those who are about to study and rock, there is no better solution than the Guilty Gear XX etc soundtrack. What you do on your own time is between you and God. You’ll have to find these on your own though, I’m not about to link to potentially-illicit YouTube collections. Whether you study best to ambience or EDM, I’ve got you covered. And by the time you’re done, hopefully all of the banks carrying your student loan debt will have crumbled, like the once-mighty Ozymandias.īut first: Finals! Lo-fi hip-hop radio can only take you so far, so I’ve hand-selected five OSTs to help you through the next couple of weeks. We trust that you will take this flaming wreckage of a planet and turn it into a place capable of supporting human life, long after our tired souls have left this mortal coil. The album contains a mod file to replace the in-game music with the metal tracks.Students of the world, we support and believe in your endeavors. On JPålsson released a power metal version of the soundtrack titled MMMMMM which was arranged and performed by guitarist Jules Conroy. The complete soundtrack, titled PPPPPP, was released alongside VVVVVV and is sold as a music download or CD on Pålsson's personal website. Pålsson wrote on the Distractionware blog that, upon playing Cavanagh's previous games, he was " amazed at the depth that came with the games, even though they were small and short." In writing the music for VVVVVV, Pålsson aimed to make "uptempo happy songs that would ingrain themselves into your minds whether you want to or not, hopefully so much so that you’d go humming on them when not playing, and making you want to come back to the game even more. Cavanagh approached Pålsson to compose VVVVVV after playing Space Phallus, an indie game by Charlie's Games, which featured a song by him. The soundtrack of VVVVVV was composed by chiptune musician Magnus Pålsson (also known as SoulEye).
