"The Edge of Light" is taken from the soundtrack of the game "Rime".
I often listen to the entire soundtrack on repeat to relax in this moment. Although I find the music quite sad, certainly in large part to the fact that it reminds me of the game in question, which I played at the time, and which ended in a very emotional way.
This 110% (
) resonates to me but with another game, one of the 2 ones which the most "affected" me, first one was the old Phantasy Star (the 1) on Sega master system around the end of the eighties, and the second one is Anarchy Online (AO), one of the first MMO with an "atmosphere" i never experienced again in any other game. At this period, around 2000, i was what we can name a video game specialist, i opened and run a network game room + cybercafe in my little town, during 6y (1999 to 2005). Anarchy Online is "the" game i remember the most and i preferred.
Funny story is the following : as it's an MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) we were playing in a french guild and I organised an IRL (In Real Life) meeting here south belgium, many of us met during one week-end, it was in february 2003. That was an incredible moment. We were almost 20 to gather and during 2 days all were adressing to each other using the name of each one's (main) character in the game. For me all were naming me "Kate", because my main character was named "Katiala" in the game, I was a soldier (among 12 choices). We had people coming from France & Suisse and of course Belgium, we all arranged in order that everybody had a place to sleep. Right, enough for the context
Here's the theme from the game that i prefer, but many other are "near", very calm music, a bit ... enchantress, faery tales to me, but with a futuristic touch :
I often read the comments on the various youtube video about the musics in AO and it's stunning to see that many feel the same kind of strong feelings I still feel, like if the artist(s) who created these melodies succeeded to compose something that remains in people's mind (or hearts) more than a usual song does, i can't explain it.
Here's
a 1h Anarchy Online music link for those who want to "test" to listen it, it's (very) calm background music.
