Saturday, June 3, 2023

POETIC VIDEO GAME REVIEW #-8B: STAFF ROLL


You know, we paid for all this licensed music to have our very own curated, Hollywood-esque soundtrack. May as well jam the leftover cuts into one Staff Roll Sandwich, right? Sure.


Just like the Hollywood director humps do to make their movies seem more hip'n'happening than what's actually on the screen. Yeah, yeah, go ahead and cry, "Cinema Envy! Cinema Envy! All video games are trying to be movies nowadays! Cinema Envy! Cinema Envy!"


Cry all you want. Even if we ship a busted, shitass product it'll still catch us a mountain range of cash from the mindlessly conformist Gotta Buy Everything jerkoffs.


Yep.


But first, we need a curtain call theme . . .


Memorial of the Fallen Ones/Toshihiko Horiyama (Demon's Crest OST)


. . . which we'll have to loop for about forty-five minutes or so. Every last random encounter gets a spot, so settle in . . .


Which brings us, at last, to the Staff Roll Sandwich . . .


Crazy In Love/Beyonce

My Way/Sid Vicious

Layla/Derek and the Dominos

The Great Pretender/The Platters

Against the Ninja/Dragon Sound

Control/Traci Lords

Kids in America/Len

Darkside/Crazy Town

House on Fire/Girls on Film

Coast to Coast Emergency/George Carlin

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?/Rod Stewart

Hypnotize/The Notorious B.I.G.

Free Bird/Lynyrd Skynyrd

Kill the Poor/Dead Kennedys

Neutron Dance/The Pointer Sisters

9 to 5/Dolly Parton

Cop Killer/Body Count

Hello Me and You/Superorganism

Alabama Song/Alan Ishii

A Reluctant Hero-Betsy-End Credits/Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver OST)

Cindy/Gary Wilson

It Ain't Necessarily So/Aretha Franklin

Fairy Dreamin'/Sayuri Shimizu (Genocyber OST 1)


Hey, that was kinda nice, eh? Good variety. Ran a bit long. Had to get all the names of the crunch fodder in there. And then we had, like, a million Executive Goldbrickers-I mean Executive Producers. And then the crowdfunders. A few hundred Backers. Five Big Spenders. Two Whales. One REDACTED.


That's everybody, right?