Episode #397 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth gather around the virtual table for our Thanksgiving-inspired celebration: Nature’s Harvest. We dig into games that capture the spirit of gathering, growing, cultivating, and coming together. From quiet farming moments to festival energy, from playful abundance to mysterious rural charm, we explore how composers across genres approach the idea of harvest, not just as crops in a field, but as a season, a feeling, and a rhythm of life.
Whether the music evokes community, hard work, celebration, or the calm in between, each track brings a different shade of the harvest season to life. Join us as we wander through cozy villages, vibrant fields, bustling festivals, and even a few unexpected corners of gaming that interpret the idea in their own unique way.
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EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS
- Dance of Thanksgiving from Summon Night 2 [Chiaki Fujita, Minako Adachi & Kohei Matsuoka, 2001]
- Crops Left Behind from Wingspan [Paweł Górniak, 2020]
- Tractor Tippin' Blues from Cars [Bruno Coon, 2006]
- Grain Cellar from World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria [Russell Brower, Neal Acree, Sam Cardon, Edo Guidotti, Jeremy Soule & Derek Duke, 2012]
- Harvest Time from Against the Storm [Mikołaj Kurpios, 2023]
- Main Theme -Slow Acoustic- from HARVESTELLA [Go Shiina, 2022]
- Canyon of Harvest from The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails [Ryo Takeshita, 2012]
- Wheat Wave from Rise to Ruins [José Ramón García, 2019]
- The Password is 'Barley Broth' from PRINCESS CONNECT! Re:Dive [no_my, 2018]
- Squash from Aoi Namida [Hideki Takahashi, Yoshio Tsuru & EJ, 2004]
- The Harvest Festival from Farmagia [Tetsuya Kobayashi & Shioto Hamasaki, 2024]
- Cornucopian Village -Town of Good Harvest- from Baten Kaitos Origins [Motoi Sakuraba, 2006]
- Mysteries of the Cornucopia from Cornucopia [Pontus Hultgren, 2023]
- Harvest of Love from Beautiful Katamari [Yuji Masubuchi feat. Hitomi Ishikawa, 2007]
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