"Fortitude" from BIT.TRIP RUNNER on the Wii, PC, Mac, 3DS, & Linux (2010)
Composer: Gaijin Games / Petrified Productions / Matthew Harwood
Label: Self Released
Developer: Gaijin Games
First off, for the composer, Gaijin Games' bandcamp page lists the composer as "Gaijin Games" while the page at Video Game Music Database lists Petrified Productions, who is one Matthew Harwood as the composer.
So I landed on the track "Fortitude," and you can read into that however you want. I needed to listen to something more upbeat after coming up with the next Game Scores article (in a week or two) and this track got to me emotionally at 2:24. When that familiar melody that crops up around the first (MEGA!) or second (SUPER!) power up, and I looked at the title of the song, I was filled up with feelings.
This song goes the way of a number of the songs on the BIT.TRIP RUNNER soundtrack, in that they start off with a beat, move into groovey territory followed by the main theme and ending with a light, almost airiness to them that contains very little of the melody or the previous sections of the song. While a somewhat non-standard musical choice, it does mirror pretty well the music in-game and how the music progresses, or doesn't depending on how you yourself play the game.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
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