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Music Talk: A Good Night’s Rest

January 29th, 2009 | Music Talk

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Today’s song is A Good Night’s Rest. Hmm, not sure what to say about this really.

One thing I was always fond of back when I played games non-stop was seeing what each RPG used as the “sleeping at the inn” song – every game has their own little melody. But EarthBound’s isn’t anything like the other standard sleep songs. But it’s cool anyway. And it’s like the YOU WON song too.

6 Comments to Music Talk: A Good Night’s Rest

Crono Breaker said on Jan. 29, 2009

Well, its almost identical to the “YOU WON!” song, but i like it, because its always a great moment.

For example:

plays after battle: Yay! I WON!

Plays in the inn: Yay! I recovered Full HP and PP!

so, yep, I love it.

Darien said on Jan. 29, 2009

I always thought it was a bit odd; the trumpet fanfare just doesn’t seem to have anything to do with sleep. Now, the music that plays once you wake up — that’s always struck me as highly fitting “just woke up” music.

Funny you should mention the bit about the RPG inn music; back in my non-stop video game youth, I used to look forward to that exact same little detail. Especially if the game were a sequel; I’d always be keen to see if it would be the same sound or a different one.

rayefrenzy said on Jan. 29, 2009

it definately screams “YOU ARE REFRESHED” not “You just slept”. I’m okay with that.

Pimpshi said on Jan. 29, 2009

I do the same thing when playing new RPGs — what’s my Inn ditty gonna be this time? I guess more people pay attention to that than I originally thought.

I never noticed the correlation between this song and the YOU WON! fanfare somehow. It’s definitely more exciting than your average sleep song. I wonder if the Mother 2 dev team went out of their way to be different for this one.