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UNDERTALE Soundtrack (2015)
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Start with the little storybook tune of “Once Upon a Time,” then listen to it come back inside the acoustic-guitar texture of “Home.” The title track “Undertale” takes the same material much further. The melody sounds familiar before the album asks it to carry any real weight.
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Journey (Original Video Game Soundtrack) (2012)
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The exposed cello in “Nascence” gives you the tune in its simplest shape. By “Apotheosis,” that tune has a whole orchestra to move through. The album works as a continuous listen because the cello line gives you a way to recognize the traveler across all that changing scenery.
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Celeste (Original Soundtrack) (2018)
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Hear the bright, springy tune in “First Steps,” then see how long it takes you to spot it in “Reach for the Summit.” The long summit track threads earlier music into a new climb. That sense of crossing familiar ground still works if the only journey you’ve taken is through the record.
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Cuphead (Original Soundtrack) (2017)
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Try “Inkwell Isle One” and “Inkwell Isle Two” back to back. Maddigan takes the same small ragtime idea from a jaunty stroll to a lilting march, then gives it a darker turn in “Inkwell Hell.” It’s an album for hearing how much a band can get out of a handful of notes.
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Outer Wilds (Original Soundtrack) (2019)
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A banjo makes the title theme feel close enough to reach across a campfire. On “Travelers,” other instruments gather around a folk tune drawn from that theme. Compare the two to hear how a melody that first felt solitary can make room for a whole group.
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Bastion (Original Soundtrack) (2011)
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Hear “Build That Wall” and “Mother, I’m Here” on their own first. In “Setting Sail, Coming Home” the two songs share the same space, and you can follow either voice through the overlap. The duet rewards a second listen because there are two melodies to pay attention to.
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FTL (Original Soundtrack) (2012)
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The delayed notes on “MilkyWay (Explore)” make a small pattern feel much wider. About half a minute into “Federation,” the pattern returns over different chords. Hear it again around the four-minute mark in “Last Stand,” where the same idea feels more urgent.
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Final Fantasy IX (Original Soundtrack) (2004)
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The world-map cue “Over the Hill” lets you learn the melody of “Melodies of Life” as an instrumental. When Emiko Shiratori sings it, a tune that once felt like open country becomes something personal. Try the two close together, then hear how the quieter version feels on the way back.
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NieR:Automata Original Soundtrack (2017)
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Each disc brings back “Weight of the World.” Try the English vocal by J’Nique Nicole, then Marina Kawano’s Japanese recording and Emi Evans’s “Nouveau” version. The melody always gives you your bearings, but the phrasing changes enough to make each return feel like a different person telling the same story.
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Ori and the Blind Forest (Original Soundtrack) (2015)
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“The Spirit Tree” sets out a theme with Aeralie Brighton’s voice. Follow that shape into “Climbing the Ginso Tree,” where a rising pattern under the melody gives the music the feeling of gaining ground. Coker keeps the tune easy to spot even as the orchestra gives it a different job.
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Octopath Traveler (Original Soundtrack) (2018)
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Begin with “Ophilia, the Cleric,” then jump to “Ophilia Motif.” The shorter cue shows how much character the longer melody can keep when it’s reduced to a brief phrase. The other travelers have their own pairs, so you can make a listening route through the record one character at a time.
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Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version (1995)
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The title track makes a short brass-like tune sound built to set a journey in motion. Listen near the end of “To Far Away Times” for that theme in a new key. Hear the two at opposite ends of the album and the change in scale suggests what happened between them, even without knowing the plot.
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Original Soundtrack) (2021)
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Raine puts pieces of the Brush’s melody into the music for four trials. Start with “Song of the Wielders,” which gives you the full tune. On your next listen, see how many of its phrases you can pick out as the earlier tracks change pace and instrumentation.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (Original Game Soundtrack) (2025)
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After Christopher Tin’s “Sogno di Volare (The Dream of Flight),” play Geoff Knorr’s four England tracks in order. Listen for “Scarborough Fair” from the spare Ancient Era setting to the bigger sound of the later eras. Then pick another civilization and see how its tune changes across the same four eras.
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The Messenger (Original Soundtrack)
Compare the snap of “Bamboo Boogaloo” with the rounder sound of “Bamboo Boogaloo II.” The first disc uses an 8-bit palette and the second a 16-bit one. The same little tune gives you something to hold on to while the bass and percussion get a wider vocabulary.
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Sonic Mania (Original Soundtrack) [Selected Edition] (2018)
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Start with the opening figure in “Flying Battery Zone Act 1,” then find it set against the busier groove in “Act 2.” Keeping both in sequence makes it easy to hear what changes around the familiar tune. Try the same approach with the other pairs before playing the album straight through.
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Gris (Original Game Soundtrack) (2018)
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Listen to “Gris, Pt. 1” and “Gris, Pt. 2” without anything in between. The first leaves the singing suspended in a small space, while the second gives the theme a wider frame. The pieces work apart, but hearing them as bookends gives the quieter tracks between them a direction.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Soundtrack (1998)
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A brief ocarina statement of “Zelda’s Lullaby” sits immediately before “Zelda’s Theme” on the Japanese CD. The two make a good pair for hearing how few notes you need to recognize a character. The larger cue leaves room to linger on the idea the little call establishes.
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