Video game music is often timeless, and there's per༒haps no greater recent example of that than this year's Grammy award winner of Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Ot꧒her Interactive Media, which went to the composer for a remake of a 44-year-old RPG.
Composer Winifred Phillips has contributed the music for plenty of iconic games over the years, having been credited on God of War (2005), LittleBigPlanet 2, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and more. However, the game soundtrack she's just won a Grammy for is none other than Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord &ndash🅺; specifically, the 2024 remake of a highly influential RPG which first released in 1981.
As you might expect, Phillips' updated soundtrack sounds rather different to the original, but it's so damn good that it beat some very popular rivals for the award. Also nominated were Bear McCreary for God of War: Ragnarok's Valhalla DLC, John Paesano for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Wilbert Roget II for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars Outlawsꦛ, and Pinar Toprak for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, making for a truly eclectic mix.&nb🌸sp;
Of all the nominees, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord's roots certainly go back the furthest, and while the award might be for the remake's composer, it's very neat to give the series some credit here, especially when 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:it had such an impact on RPGs in general. The series, which started with Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, is often credited as havin𓂃g helped shape the likes of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.
In , after expressing her gra🌼titude to remake developers Digital Eclipse, as well as the remake's creative lead Jeff Nachbaur and music producer Winnie Waldron, Phillips says: "I'd just love to thank all of you for believing in music for games and for recognizing it, and for breathing life and enthusiasm and energy into what we do. It means so much𝐆, thank you."
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