"Let It Be Haven" from Dead Island: Riptide on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 (2015)
Composer: Paweł Błaszczak
Label: Sumthing Else Music Works
Publisher: Deep Silver
Developer: Techland
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If you recognize the name Paweł Błaszczak, it could be because we just used a song from The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings last week, not that that was Mr. Błaszczak, but he did write the majority of the music to the first game in The Witcher franchise as well as some of the music in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. AND he wrote the music to Dead Island: Riptide as well as the first Dead Island game. Which surprised me a little bit, not that it is from Mr. Błaszczak, but that something so beautiful was in this game, considering the type of game Dead Island: Riptide is coupled with the fallout from promotional marketing before the games release. People who have been with us for at least five years might remember my first experience with Dead Island: Riptide which was anything but musical, which was either a hardware or software issue and had nothing to do with the actual music in the game.
All of this is why I decided to go back and use a song that I had previously described as being so much better than it had a right to be, which is not to say that I was surprised by the quality of Mr. Błaszczak's music, but that I was not expecting how good this music was in the context of a Dead Island game. This seems to be a theme though with this series after the first game seemed to have fallen short of people's expectations based on the 2011 reveal trailer, and based on "Let It Be Haven," you would expect an emotional story about survival, which is not so much what Dead Island: Riptide actually turned out to be.
Now, I cannot specifically recall when in the game "Let It Be Haven" is used and it very well could have been used after the point in the game when I stopped, I think I was 20+ hours in, but the title alone implies that it could have been used as early as the first survivor encampment just off of the beach. Two other things struck me about this piece of music. The first being that, if it is used in one or any of the survivor camps, that it is similar in tone to the music used in the save rooms in the original Resident Evil, and the second is that it could also be described as reminiscent of the music composed by Giles Lamb for the Dead Island trailer.
So that is where I am going to leave it. With this beautiful piece of music surrounded by the dismembered corpses of holiday beach goers as people try to survive another night.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
Expectations of You
Now, I cannot specifically recall when in the game "Let It Be Haven" is used and it very well could have been used after the point in the game when I stopped, I think I was 20+ hours in, but the title alone implies that it could have been used as early as the first survivor encampment just off of the beach. Two other things struck me about this piece of music. The first being that, if it is used in one or any of the survivor camps, that it is similar in tone to the music used in the save rooms in the original Resident Evil, and the second is that it could also be described as reminiscent of the music composed by Giles Lamb for the Dead Island trailer.
So that is where I am going to leave it. With this beautiful piece of music surrounded by the dismembered corpses of holiday beach goers as people try to survive another night.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
Expectations of You
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