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Einhander

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There isn't really much to say about this except that it's great for techno. It has the hardcore songs that will pump your brain and some soft that can generate doubt and amazement in your mind. It's a great CD overall.

Perhaps one of the greatest sidescrolling shooters of all time, einhander had amazing graphics, gameplay, and of course, music. If your a fan of the game or just enjoy techno music, this cd is a great choice. The cd has 29 tracks, all exactley as they were heard in the game, and each one is a excellent audio experience. The songs on here are definetley some of my all time favorites, and I would definetly reccomend this one to anyone whose a fan of game music.

Einhander was a rare offering from a game developer taking a gamble playing an off-suit; Squaresoft was attempting to branch out from its RPG base (an experiment that proved ultimately unsuccessful). The result was an amazingly satisfying take on the side-scrolling shooter, with unique gameplay, innovative 2 1/2-D graphic effects, and of course, an awesome soundtrack that kept the action thumping along. This was a simpler time in video games, where expectations for game soundtracks were still being set by the MIDI beeps and boops of the 90's, and "real" music in the background was in its infancy. (Wipeout XL, the pioneer in this regard, was 2 years old at the time.)

Kenichiro Fukui's techno beat is laid down in game-sequential order, with the exception of a couple of recurring boss battle themes that are placed toward the end of the compilation. Overall this is pretty straightforward (albeit addictively catchy) electronica fare, though it is more stop-and-go trance than danceable house, particularly in the "down time" tracks. Because of the direct correspondence to the game's flow, the soundtrack is almost exclusively comprised of alternating aggressive and atmospheric offerings; depending on the environment in which you are listening, this can either be a nice change of pace or distracting. There's also no attempt to flow between tracks -- with one exception, the tracks loop and fade away -- but that's a minor niggle.

Highlights are track 8 (Badlands), 10 (Warning) and 12 (Factory) for adrenaline, and 13 (Dawn) for a reprieve, but the album is almost universally strong, and most tracks stand on their own. Occasionally, the video game soundtrack aspect works to the disc's disadvantage (for instance, track 2 is a throwaway level-select beat). Most of the time, though, you won't even notice the album's origins, as it's atmospheric electronica at its best.

this game and the music it has bring and emotional feeling to me its a great game but ts more than a game its a way to show us that our world could be just like that in a few thousand years or so they are already making flying cars by the way what makes you not think that the future world can be just like that