{"id":129530,"date":"2022-11-06T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140210"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:00:00","slug":"talking-point-whats-the-best-use-of-licensed-music-in-a-switch-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/06\/talking-point-whats-the-best-use-of-licensed-music-in-a-switch-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What’s The Best Use Of Licensed Music In A Switch Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You know that feeling you get when you’re driving down a highway at sunset, and the perfect<\/em> song comes on the radio? All of a sudden, it feels like you’re in a music video, or that bit at the start of a ’90s teen movie, where everything is sparkling and perfect. The music becomes a soundtrack, and your life becomes a story.<\/p>\n

There are a few brilliant moments like this in media, too \u2014 ones that deploy the right song at the right moment for a perfect synergy of feelings. Think of how Edgar Wright uses licensed music in his films<\/a> to underline tense, snappy moments and add comedy, or the use of Don’t You (Forget About Me) at the end of The Breakfast Club<\/strong><\/a>, or the Imogen Heap-scored season 2 finale of The O.C., which became so iconic that it got its own SNL skit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just like movies and TV, video games have been slowly, but surely learning to marry music and mechanics to create something greater than the sum of its parts. It’s not that widespread of a practice, admittedly \u2014 the cost of licensing music in perpetuity<\/a> is prohibitively expensive even for the more moneyed studios \u2014 but when they get it right, they get it right<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, here’s our list of some of the best uses of licensed music in video games. Imagine the satisfying ka-chunk<\/em> of a Walkman play button as we begin, and make sure to fast-forward down to the bottom of page two to have your say in our polls…<\/p>\n

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Publisher: <\/span>2K<\/strong> \/ Developer: <\/span>2K<\/strong><\/p>\n

Release Date: <\/span>29th May 2020 (USA<\/abbr>)<\/strong> \/ 29th May 2020 (UK\/EU<\/abbr>)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

If we can’t have Fallout on this list, at least we can have Bioshock<\/a>, a series that was happy to incorporate both time-period-appropriate and entirely anachronistic music into its scenes. While it could be argued that ‘Beyond the Sea’ is a little lyrically on-the-nose when it comes to Bioshock’s themes and setting, it doesn’t really matter too much in this case, because the combination of the loungey ’50s vibe and the oddly melancholy tone of this song are enough to pull it out of being too much. It’s just perfect.<\/p>\n