
If you have been following most of my blog posts, you will know that in this game, our protagonist Beta is abandoned and finds himself in a scrapyard. Yes, this is the scene. 

If you could watch this cutscene, you can see that Beta initially thinks that it is his own father who abandoned him but he doesn't know. Well again if you have been following my blog you would know that it wasn't his father but a mad scientist who did this.

Crucial plot points aside, this is the scene that would lead up to the level 1 scrapyard music. Naturally, i took lots of musical cues from there. Things like Key, motifs, instruments etc.

This is a really important scene and as such i really needed the music to drive across the story that is being told onscreen. To convey emotion and impact at all the right moments proved to be quite a challenge.

Also i did mention that i have assigned instruments to each character. As a subtle hint, The father's assigned instrument which is the piano does not appear in this scene, so there..

and sorry about that reverb tail.....................................................

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Cutscene 2


The last cutscene leading up to the last level...

Here, Beta recovers his memories and remembers that it is the mad scientist who abandoned him and has captured his father.

For this track, i played around and went a little overboard with the synths and effects. I did this to express Beta's panic and shock.

The father reappears with a weaker sounding clean piano this time, as a sign that he is weakened and trapped and feeling sad for beta. And as the shot widens and the mad scientist is revealed, a brass horn plays a sinister tune.

I chose a brass horn because i have used synth horns extensively for the scientist appears as the Level 2 boss. 
I thought to myself, if i used synth horns for his armoured mechanic form, i should the use a brass horn as its acoustic counterpart. The brass horn here plays the same sinister motif that appears later in the  boss music as a way of revealing the villain in this scene.

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Ian Ngoh

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