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What are the best and worst lyrics you've ever heard in a videogame song?

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(Image credit: Square Enix) I've always loved dissecting song lyrics, but doing that for videogame music always feels like a coin flip. I do find that, more than anywhere else, videogame music is absolutely rife with nonsense lines. Take this one from raid boss Sugar Riot in Final Fantasy 14: "Now we come to orange / Gotta rhyme something with orange / 'Cept that nothing rhymes with orange / Think that I'll just forget 'bout orange." Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday ), where I celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. And finally, my personal candidate for worst videogame lyrics has to be the opening song for Dead Island with Who Do You Voodoo? I almost have to commend just how closely the song toes the line between terrible and hilariously good.…

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