Sometimes I hear a song and it perfectly encapsulates a feeling a game gives me, so here is a thread to catalog this. These don’t necessarily even sound like the game, but they feel like the game to me. Add your own please!
Anodyne = Purple Moss by Malibu Ken i.e. Aesop Rock and Tobacco
Anodyne is a sad game about poking at your own psyche and realizing your brain is in a state of decay, filled with weird garbage. Indulging in your worst urges and just wallowing in your own shit, poking at the edges of a personality that you’ve alienated yourself from. As many criticisms as I leveled at it, it was most successful at depicting a decaying and strange place, and imbuing a real sense of alienation.
I talk like it hurts to talk
Mascot of Murphy’s Law
From the claw game at the Walt Whitman mall
to the worst curb cuts of the urban sprawl
I love the tone set by these opening lyrics. Just a miserable sap who can’t win at claw games and falls over a lot. Great shit.
Like a lot of Aesop Rock this is a very introspective song that is pretty self-indulgent as well. I guess it’s also about moving from the east coast to Portland based on the fact that the Empire Builder is a route from Chicago to Portland, where Aesop lives right now. But I dunno, Genius lyrics is pretty fucking stupid
Anyway, it really has a feeling of being a piece of shit trying to figure out why you suck so bad, and basically deciding to fuck off and sit in a lawn chair and watch everything decay
Never mistook for a bird or a plane
Mistook for a hearse in the rain
What a melodramatic nerd. It’s so good.
More later as they re-occur to me
