Best VGM 2224 - Cosmic Star Heroine - Echoes (The Hive)

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Published on November 9th 2018, 12:52 am

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Best VGM 2140
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Soundtrack: https://hyperduck.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-star-heroine-original-soundtrack

A collection of my favorite videogame music. Note that most of them are from games I played so I might miss some great ones from games I never played.

PC / PS4 / XB1 / Vita / Switch
Cosmic Star Heroine (2017)
Echoes
HyperDuck SoundWorks (https://www.youtube.com/user/HyperDuckMusic)

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Comments

SupraDarky on November 9th 2018, 12:52 am
Hearing feedback on this game's slightly disappointing sales directly from Zeboyd Games, it's really quite unfortunate. I've been supporting them since my very first Breath of Death VII upload and I would hate to see them become discouraged and stop making retro RPGs. CSH was far from perfect, but it brought an amazing setting and a unique battle system that pulled the game away from the mediocre story and unmemorable characters. Of course, the soundtrack was a big positive as well. This track is easily one of my favorites, I especially love the calm intro. The great buildup and afterwards also somehow gives me vibes of Starcraft with its drums and instrumentation.

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Uncle Al on November 9th 2018, 2:40 am
The Switch release, even?

GamingNobility on November 9th 2018, 4:36 am
This is giving me MAD Terran theme vibes from Starcraft 1, which is great! That’s very unfortunate for them though. I’ll still pick it up on Switch, but I am sad that it did not do well. I hope they bounce back. I really did not hear any marketing about this game past the Sony release earlier last year. I actually got a chance to speak with The Messenger Creative Director and Executive Producer and they said how lucky they were to be promoted by Nintendo and how hard it is to crack into the industry. It really is scary, especially for indies where the competition is very high.

Mr. Variant on November 11th 2018, 2:28 am
it was a phantasy star 4 ripoff from character names (Alys/Chaz, Alyssa/Chana) and that lack of a cutscene with the beast being destroyed and being all text was a dealbreaker, when they had a cutscene with some guy showing off his sunglasses. Only worse kickstarter for me was mighty no 9.

01 05 on November 13th 2018, 6:13 pm
Shame it didn't sell great, as you say it was enjoyable, not perfect but it was still a good wee game. I had issues with it but they were issues I felt if they done a sequel or anything, it would be easily rectified.
Trapster2 on November 10th 2018, 4:12 pm
Gonna have to buy this during a discount sale later. I highly enjoyed Cthulhu Saves the World (even though I accidentally saved over a save file with another because it didn't support separate save slots for the different scenarios).
Dekuwarrior on November 9th 2018, 2:05 pm
Bought this game and the soundtrack on release and liked it quite a lot. I hope Zeboyd Games will continue creating gems like this despite the low sales if possible.
Jay DiNItto on November 9th 2018, 1:17 pm
Cosmic Star Heroin
Shad G on November 9th 2018, 11:38 am
Bless HyperDuck 🙏🙏🙏
Ahmed360 on November 9th 2018, 9:18 am
Music build up is spot on!
Crimson Fox on November 9th 2018, 2:06 am
Ohh how have I miss you SupraDarky. Always great music. Also loved this title, plat on ps4 ;)
Obi-Wan Kenobi on November 9th 2018, 1:58 am
I concur with most opinions here; love the battle system and mechanics that allow for unique long-term strategy over the course of entire encounters, and of course the stellar soundtrack and settings too. I felt it honestly had too many playable characters though.
Redmage1000 on November 9th 2018, 1:49 am
I really enjoyed this game for the soundtrack and battle system. The setting was pretty cool, but the characters were meh, and same with the story.

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Freddy Martinez on November 9th 2018, 2:51 am
Which is disappointing since Boyd is good at characters and story.
Daytime Sky on November 9th 2018, 1:49 am
Not an RPG person, but the battle system and lack of grinding sounded interesting. I ultimately didn't buy it, but it seemed interesting.
Caio L. on November 9th 2018, 1:24 am
I'm playing this game right now, thanks to Origin putting it on vault and I'm actually loving it! Love the battle system and overall setting, the soundtrack and everything. The story is OK, but the fast pace is positive for sure. I hope they keep doing those RPGs because, at least for me, CSH is a hit in the right direction.