[Top 100 Modern VGTunes] #012 - Dark Cloud 2 - Lunatic Wisdom Laboratory
Console: Playstation 2
Developer: Level 5
Original Release: 2002
Song Comments:
Dark Chronicle aka Dark Cloud 2 in the U.S. has a very beatiful soundtrack, and this is the best piece on it. Slow tunes have always been a bit unpopular on my lists, with the exception of Terranigma's Krysta Theme, so I hope this one will be received a little better. It's calming and soothing, even more so than the Gundorada theme. Incredibly beautiful and if it wasn't for the tune being very simplistic, I'd rank it in the Top 10. Most early revisions of this list actually had this theme in the Top 10, as a matter of fact.
Game Comments:
To be quite honest, Dark Chronicle is tied with Persona 3 as my favorite game on the PS2, and among my six favorite games of all time. The atmosphere and the soundtrack were just amazing, and the sheer amount of things you could do blew me away. Catch and raise fish, invent new items and tinker with your mech, play a variant of golf, build villages, explore the dungeons and fight enemies in challenging, but fair battles - this game had tons of stuff you could do, and everything worked great. A true masterpiece.