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From Cyberpunk 2077 to The Witcher 3: Why videogame music matters, told by some of the best composers in the indsutry

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(Image credit: CD Projekt Red / ZA/UM / Bethesda) Like a perfectly balanced recipe or a well-oiled machine, a videogame needs a handful of vital components to really come to life. You've got graphics, mechanics, narrative, all that good stuff. But perhaps one of the most underappreciated aspects that really helps tie a game together is its music. Good videogame music pulls you straight into the world and creates some real powerful memories that attach themselves to the scores you hear as you play. Everyone has that one track that brings back floods of nostalgia or giddy stomach butterflies whenever they hear it—maybe it's the delicate piano of Aerith's Theme from Final Fantasy 7 , the roaring of the choir during Skyrim's title song, or the heart-pounding melodies of Mass Effect 2's Suicide Mission. Even moreso than movies or television, videogame soundtracks are so vital to hammering home emotions or bringing the places and things we interact with to life.…

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