2017 Started the New year off with a Bang and it only seemed to get better with each upcoming game release! Nintendo started the year with a re-imagined Zelda and ended it with new Super Mario game. Various other games and franchises returned to widespread acclaim. From a new Resident Evil to the return of a classic-style Sonic the Hedgehog game, there was never a better time to be a gamer.
2017 might have the strongest, most consistent year of quality games in quite long time.
So as a First for the retro VGM revival hour, We will be playing some selected tracks from the various games of 2017.
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Full track listing:
===========Game – Composer – Title – Company========
1.) Blaster Master Zero – Ippo Yamada, Hiroaki Sano, Aoi Tanaka & Kotaro Yamada – “Underworld 2 (Area 3, 4, 5 & 6)”- March 3, 2017 – Inti Creates – 3DS & Nintendo Switch
2.) Horizon Zero Dawn – Joris de Man, The Flight & Niels van der Leest – “Years Of Training (Part 1/Motherland)”- February 28, 2017 – Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment – PS4
3.) NieR: Automata – Keiichi Okabe & Keigo Hoashi – “Dependent Weakling” – February 23, 2017 – PlatinumGames/Suqare Enix – Windows Pc & PS4
4.) Prey – Mick Gordon – “Mind Game” – May 5, 2017 – Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks – Windows Pc, PS4 & Xbox One
5.) Persona 5 – Shoji Meguro & Toshiki Konishi – “Life Will Change” – April 4, 2017 – Atlas – PS4 & PS3
6.) LawBreakers – Mick Gordon – “Faust” – August 8, 2017 – Boss Key Productions/Nexon – Windows Pc & PS4
7.) Nex Machina – Ari Pulkkinen – “Cosmic Hero” – June 20, 2017 – Housemarque – Windows Pc & PS4
8.) Metroid: Samus Returns – Kenji Yamamoto & Daisuke Matsuoka – “Surface Of SR388” – September 15, 2017 – MercuryStream/Nintendo – 3DS
9.) Cuphead – Kristofer Maddigan – “Don’t Deal with The Devil, Carnival Kerfuffle, A Quick Break, Aviary Action & Die House (MR. KING DICE Theme) (4:00)“ – September 29, 2017 – StudioMDHR – Windows Pc & Xbox One
10.) Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap – Michael Geyre & Shinichi Sakamoto – “The Last Dungeon“ – April 18, 2017 – Lizardcube/DotEmu – Windows Pc, PS4, Xbox One, Linux. Mac OS & Nintendo Switch
11.) RUINER – Sidewalks and Skeletons – “Sleep Paralysis & Disappear“ – September 26, 2017 – Reikon Games/Devolver Digital – Linux, Windows Pc, Mac Os, Xbox One & PS4
12.) Gravity Rush 2 – Kohei Tanaka – “Night Gale” – January 18, 2017 – Sony Japan Studio (SIE Japan Studio) & Project Siren/Sony Interactive Entertainment – PS4
13.) Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice – Andy LaPlegua & David García Díaz – “Gramr”- August 8, 2017 – Ninja Theory – Windows Pc & PS4
14.) Pyre – Darren Korb (w/ Ashley Barrett and Darren Korb providing Vocals) – “In the Flame“ – July 25, 2017 – Supergiant Games – Windows Pc, Mac OS, Linux & PS4
15.) Night in the Woods – Alec Holowka – “Trailer & Astral Alley” – February 21, 2017 – Infinite Fall/Finji – Windows Pc, Mac Os, Linux & PS4
16.) Sonic Mania – Tee Lopes – “Metallic Madness Zone Act 2 & Hi-Spec Robo Go! (Theme of the Hard-Boiled Heavies)” – August 15, 2017 – Headcannon & PagodaWest Games/SEGA – Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, Ps4 & Xbox One
17.) The Evil Within 2 – Masatoshi Yanagi – “Making Your Way Home” – October 13, 2017 – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks – Windows Pc, PS4 & Xbox One
18.) Hollow Knight – Christopher Larkin – “City Of Tears”- February 24, 2017 – Team Cherry – Windows Pc, Mac Os, Linux & Nintendo Switch
19.) Strafe – ToyTree – “Bang Bang, Resilience & Slain“ – May 9, 2017 – Pixel Titans/Devolver Digital – Windows Pc, Mac Osx & PS4
20.) Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Yasunori Mitsuda, ACE, Kenji Hiramatsu & Manami Kiyota – “Elysium/in the Blue Sky & Mor Ardain/Roaming the Wastes“ – December 1, 2017 – Monolith Soft/Nintendo – Nintendo Switch
21.) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata & Hajime Wakai – “Rito Village (Day) & Molduga Battle (Phase 1 & 2)”- March 3, 2017 – Nintendo – Nintendo Switch
22.) Splatoon 2 – Toru Minegishi, Ryo Nagamatsu & Shiho Fujii – “Tidal Rush (DJ Octavio feat. Callie vs. Marie)” – July 21, 2017 – Nintendo – Nintendo Switch
23.) Yakuza 0 – Hidenori Shoji, Zenta Tsuchihashi (ZENTA), Kensuke Inage, Yoshiji Kobayashi, Karasuya-sabou, Saori Yoshida, POPHOLIC, Hyd Lunch, Sachio Ogawa, Fumiyoshi Shimohara, Yuri Fukuda, Keisuke Hattori (baker), yuyoyuppe & Hirotaka Kumagawa – “One Eyed Slugger, 24-Hour Cinderella, Queen of the passion & Tribunal for the devil“ – January 24, 2017 – SEGA – PS4
24.) Super Mario Odyssey – Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii & Koji Kondo (W/ Kate Davis providing Vocals) – “Steam Gardens, Jump Up Super Star & Honeylune Ridge: escape“ – October 27, 2017 – Nintendo – Nintendo Switch
