Reflect - OST COMPOSING JAM 7

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GAME STORY (+ song placement):

After entering a comatose state, you are plunged into your own mind, and you must defeat all the worst parts of you so that you can peacefully pass away and move on to the afterlife. The first track (Inside My World) plays both in the main menu of the game and also at the very end, as you pass away. The second track (Good Old YOU) plays as you explore the first stage of your mind, which consists mostly of good thoughts. There is an entity you meet who travels with you, claiming to be an angel sent from heaven to help guide you through your mind, and they appear to be a humanoid figure who is made of bubbles. However, there are bad thoughts leaking through. You go to destroy them, which culminates in you fighting the embodiment of all your worst desires (FROM THE DEEPEST DESIRES OFTEN COME). Upon defeating them, the angel sent to guide you absorbs the dark feelings, which they say is to help you. Then you are sent into the second, much darker stage of your mind which consists only of your worst thoughts (Is This Even YOU). Trying to find a way out, you end up needing to fight against the embodiment of your hatred (THE DEADLIEST HATE). The "angel" absorbs your hatred, becoming completely engulfed in darkness. Then they reveal that they aren't actually an angel, they're YOU. Having absorbed the darkness, they have become a reflection of all your worst parts, and they are the final thing you must defeat to move on (The YOU you WISH you WEREN'T (but you are)). Then, after they've been defeated, you can finally pass away.

LEITMOTIF EXPLANATIONS:

The first track introduces two leitmotifs, the main theme and the hate theme. The two themes show up in 3/4 here, but in 4/4 in the rest of the tracks so they are varied slightly. The main theme shows up in Inside My World, Good Old YOU, Is This Even YOU, and The YOU you WISH you WEREN'T (but you are). The hate theme shows up in Inside My World, FROM THE DEEPEST DESIRES OFTEN COME (it is the most altered in this song, so you it may not be as easy to pick up on, but it makes up most of the song), THE DEADLIEST HATE, and The YOU you WISH you WEREN'T (but you are). There is also another leitmotif, the death leitmotif. The first half of it shows up in FROM THE DEEPEST DESIRES OFTEN COME, and the second half shows up in THE DEADLIEST HATE. Then, they both come together to play the full death theme in The YOU you WISH you WEREN'T (but you are) since that is the most important battle to win in order to peacefully die. The death theme was pretty heavily influenced by Laura Palmer's theme from the show Twin Peaks, which is because the show is about uncovering how she was tragically killed, and so I thought that the theme of a dead person would be a fitting influence for the death theme.

GAMEPLAY: 

I imagined this game as an RPG for the PS1, but it would play closer to the first two Fallout games than other RPGs.

Composing info:

All songs were composed in FL Studio, with the PS1 soundfont for everything but the drums, which were FPC.