"Castle Theme" from Neverwinter Nights on the PC, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One (2002 2019)
Composer: Jeremy Soule
Album: Neverwinter Nights Original Soundtrack & Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Official Soundtrack
Label: Atari & Beamdog
Publisher: Atari & Beamdog
Developer: Bioware
You first hear this track after the hour-long (didn't it also take you an hour?) character-creation process and you listen to the introduction as to how your character finds themselves in the plagued city of Neverwinter. As you "wake up" in the Academy, a different song plays with a glimmer of the Neverwinter Nights theme, less heroic than the main theme but rightly so because you are only a level 1 scrub who would die with a single well placed critical hit. But then this song, the Castle Theme starts up as you progress through the in-game tutorial to prepare you for the rest of the game. Something about that bassoon (is it a bassoon?) that plays at around the 10-second mark and then the flute takes over around 33-seconds just really hits me in the nostalgia feel.
I restarted Neverwinter Nights on Monday, and I was immediately taken back 20 years to when I first played this on my PC in 2002 during the days before Steam existed. I put a lot of hours/days/weeks/months/years into this game and hearing that theme in the Academy at the beginning of the game when everything was new was very comforting and not too threatening.
And right now, that is the kind of music that I feel like sharing with you all.
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