Atmospheric Score for Naughty Dog-milestone

Gustavo Santaolalla no term was admittedly me before this game (despite its that he has an Oscar for the best film music twice to clear!). The Last of Us would not have been half as exciting and atmospheric without his melancholic / dark music. Whereby in the booklet text by Neil Druckmann, lead designer finds, in which explained that temporarily fell back during the development of the game on music by Santaolalla and so eventually even the idea came the man to bring on board.

The music is often minimalist gehalten- appropriately to the events in the game. Mainly resorting to guitar sounds. Only discreetly come Streicher used. By contrast, there is heard lots of percussion and electronic music. There are four main themes in the game: The Main Theme "The Last of Us", the beautiful "All Gone", "The Path" and "Vanishing Grace". These appear again and again in different variations. For me personally, however, "All Gone" the main theme of the game- it appeared in all important key scenes of the Games on (particularly in terms of Joel and Ellie).

Now we must say that the soundtrack as a standalone rather a treat for fans of the game (and possibly Santaolalla fans what I suspect, however, only so far as I know only this from him). Because the score is really very minimalist and gloomy. Here it is really better to know the game. So fans beat to-interested rather hear elsewhere items, (or play best equal the game). Where there is also one or the other creeps track (and independent of the scene of the game).

Conclusion:

Moody Score which is lacking in some areas of variety (but it was also hard to avoid in my opinion). There are some real highlights like "All Gone (No Escape)" or "The Path (A New Beginning)". According Druckmann some dialogues were reduced or eliminated to the music to let go first in order to express the particular scene. I think that has good hingehauen.

For fans the recommendation! Who takes a liking to this soundtrack might also like the soundtrack albums for "The Walking Dead"!