"Loki" from Ragnarock on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest 2 / Meta Quest (2021)
Composer: Saltatio Mortis
Album: Für immer frei
Label: Napalm Records
Publisher: WanadevStudio
Developer: WanadevStudio
Before playing Ragnarock, I was not familiar with the German medieval metal group Saltatio Mortis and after this song alone, I am a fan. In the catalog of songs to choose from, "Loki" comes in at track 5, which seems like a great spot for it. After the more mellow "Welcome to Asgard" and the more upbeat party-type song "Riot" having this song come in with a calm acoustic guitar for the first handful of measures and then those bagpipes blaring in at 0:27 is just.... mmm! Chef's kiss gold!
This is one of those songs where I felt that the beat-map changed significantly enough between the easier Level 2 Challenge and the Level 4 Challenge that the harder level sucked a lot of the fun out of playing the song. There are sections of the song that just play more naturally along with the vocals rather than with the drums, and then switching to the guitars so you can hit the drums more frequently when longer notes are held in the song. I am genuinely curious but also terrified to see what the Level 7 Challenge is like. But anyway.
This is just an amazing song to play in this game and I love that I have now been introduced to a band with 11 years of discography to fall back on.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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