Bastion: Original Soundtrack Steam Charts & Stats

I decided to buy the Bastion soundtrack. With some games, when you buy the soundtrack you might not get all the songs you expect. Sometimes, there's one licensed track that you really want, but it's not included. It's more common than you'd think. Sometimes there's games made with Wwise and other tools that prevent a 'soundtrack' being cobbled together terribly easily. So I was well pleased that Bastion's soundtrack is just a list of all the songs in the game, including 'A Proper Story' which I think is only heard on the gramophone if you interact with it enough, I don't know. Everything else pretty much is a stage theme or some such. Oh, and 'The Pantheon' I think might also be unique to this soundtrack. It's a good one too. Everything in the soundtrack is laid out pretty much in chronological order, which makes for a nice experience once you've played the game. You'll probably have nice memories of playing through Bastion, and the selection being laid out the way it is will allow you to revisit it without actually having to commit to another playthrough. In some ways it might even be better, since music can stimulate one's imagination without the crassness of sight - you can intuit, infer and imagine based on what you hear, and you're encouraged a little more to do that when you're not being told what to picture with your eyes. I think every song on this is a hit, though Percy's Escape is a little weak, since it sounds kind of rough on the ear compared to many of the other tracks, but everything else is solid. It even has the nice excuse of, well, it works a lot better in-game during the tense moment(s) that it plays, so I can forgive it. My favorite overall is probably Slinger's Song. That part of the game too when you're just starting to push into 'The Wilds' has some of the most interesting levels, some of the most fun enemies to fight, and honestly some of the most appealing graphics in the game. I think the sense of adventure too, is at its highest at that point, since you're just pushing into and exploring a greater world. Oh, and obviously the vocal tracks are great too, all of them. After hearing them enough though, I find it easier to listen to the instrumental tracks over and over repeatedly (and I do frequently revisit this soundtrack). Anyway, aside from all that, if I had one modest criticism, it's the the soundtrack files themselves are just a bunch of .mp3s. It would have also been nice to get them in .flac format for anyone who really cares about that (I care about .flac). Ideally it'd be two folders: one of .mp3s so you can take those if you need space, and one that's just .flac. That'd be nice. Overall, even though I have modest gripes with the format, it's well worth it. And I like supporting Supergiant well enough, so yeah. It's good and I recommend it.

A special OST to me. This was a meme back in the day don't ya know? Fantastic Instrumentals for fast action and wonderful Vocals for more touching moments.

Good soundtrack, but please add .flac. You can buy this losslessly on Bandcamp, why not here?