Someone should tell the producers of this game that the name should be changed from Stray Gods: The Role-playing Musical to Stray Gods: The Interactive Visual Novel Where Characters Sing Their Lines Sometimes
Because this game is not a musical.
See, I'd like to think of myself as a musical enthusiast and by enthusiast I mean listening to the OBC recordings and watching slime tutorials on YouTube (iykyk). I know my fair share of musicals, both the standard live ones and the original movie musicals. The worst offense I could thing this alleged musical could do was to put songs at the wrongest times possible which is a common offense in movie musicals and Riverdale musical episodes.
Oh no, it was worst than that.
The moment the first song played, I sat there for a moment and questioned my perception of reality.
No, seriously, just what the hell are these lyrics?
Like a boat, lost at sea
With no sails, not a breeze
That is not a song. You cannot convince me that is a song. It's like if Hamilton opened with
Can someone please take a chance on me?
I'm here to make a legacy
And every single song I've heard is like that. There's no rhyme or reason. Even musicals that have conversation pieces within their songs have purpose and musicality. The aforementioned Lin Manuel Miranda is honestly so good at this (despite being annoyingly cringe).
I have to wonder has David Gaider ever seen a musical? Have any of the writers, producers and designers broke down ANY musical and studied it's composition? It truly does feel like Gaider and team thought that musicals = people singing lines. On that note, did no one on the team thought to hire a musical director or composer to assist with the game? Austin Wintory scored this game and while his work on Journey is beautiful and breathtaking, he has no musical credits and the score proves that he's wrong for this job.
That I think is the main problem with this game. The team behind it is so focused on hiring named talent that they didn't hire proper talent for the job. The studio is based on Australia which I know has a huge musical scene. They could lose a Troy Baker or an Ashley Johnson to hire local musical directors and composers to help with this project. No one held them at gunpoint and said to hire all of these known voice actors.
I'm seriously wondering if the musical component to this is a joke. Like did the dev team sat around a table and thought "Hahaha a game musical would be funny am I right?". It's an insult to RPG games and musicals everywhere.
Musical enthusiast, don't listen to the gamers saying you should play this game. They're lying. They don't know musicals like we do. Skip this game and listen to EPIC: The Musical instead if you haven't. At least the cast in there could actually sing.
Because this game is not a musical.
See, I'd like to think of myself as a musical enthusiast and by enthusiast I mean listening to the OBC recordings and watching slime tutorials on YouTube (iykyk). I know my fair share of musicals, both the standard live ones and the original movie musicals. The worst offense I could thing this alleged musical could do was to put songs at the wrongest times possible which is a common offense in movie musicals and Riverdale musical episodes.
Oh no, it was worst than that.
The moment the first song played, I sat there for a moment and questioned my perception of reality.
No, seriously, just what the hell are these lyrics?
Like a boat, lost at sea
With no sails, not a breeze
That is not a song. You cannot convince me that is a song. It's like if Hamilton opened with
Can someone please take a chance on me?
I'm here to make a legacy
And every single song I've heard is like that. There's no rhyme or reason. Even musicals that have conversation pieces within their songs have purpose and musicality. The aforementioned Lin Manuel Miranda is honestly so good at this (despite being annoyingly cringe).
I have to wonder has David Gaider ever seen a musical? Have any of the writers, producers and designers broke down ANY musical and studied it's composition? It truly does feel like Gaider and team thought that musicals = people singing lines. On that note, did no one on the team thought to hire a musical director or composer to assist with the game? Austin Wintory scored this game and while his work on Journey is beautiful and breathtaking, he has no musical credits and the score proves that he's wrong for this job.
That I think is the main problem with this game. The team behind it is so focused on hiring named talent that they didn't hire proper talent for the job. The studio is based on Australia which I know has a huge musical scene. They could lose a Troy Baker or an Ashley Johnson to hire local musical directors and composers to help with this project. No one held them at gunpoint and said to hire all of these known voice actors.
I'm seriously wondering if the musical component to this is a joke. Like did the dev team sat around a table and thought "Hahaha a game musical would be funny am I right?". It's an insult to RPG games and musicals everywhere.
Musical enthusiast, don't listen to the gamers saying you should play this game. They're lying. They don't know musicals like we do. Skip this game and listen to EPIC: The Musical instead if you haven't. At least the cast in there could actually sing.
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@ghost_quartet at least epic actually functions like a musical lmao. This game is like what people who don't like musicals think what a musical is
ghost_quartet
8 months ago