The Impeccable Sound Design of Outer Wilds

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• SC

  @scotcheggable · 3 years ago

  I will literally watch anything about outer wilds. <br><br>I need more.

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• PH

  @phntmthf5505 · 1 year ago

  Fun fact: the piano used for most of the Nomai music was chosen for a particular reason. It&apos;s a type of standing piano that can be programmed. This feature is why it was chosen, to represent machines running well beyond the deaths of their creators because they never received the order to stop.

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• SO

  @SomeoneTookMyOldName · 3 years ago

  One of my favorite facts about the music is that the song “the sun station” is the reverse of “the search”

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• MR

  @mr1spamification · 3 years ago

  Andrew Prahlow really did <b>absolutely crush it</b> with Outer Wilds. Doesn&apos;t take a triple-A title or millions in budget or popular action movie hollywood composers to get a game to have timeless excellence in its soundtrack, just takes passion for what&apos;s being made, and the state of the games industry has clearly proven passion cannot be bought with fat cat funds or marketable name-drops in promotional material. Passion is a choice from each artist who partakes in a project. I&apos;ll never stop loving Outer Wilds music. It&apos;ll stand on its own forever.

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• HA

  @harryrobinson6195 · 2 years ago

  it isn&apos;t part of the main story so I understand why it was left out, but my favourite piece of sound design (and the most genuine fear and surprise I have ever felt from a game) is when space-time fractures following a paradox created by entering the ash twin&apos;s black hole at the end of a loop

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• EP

  @EPICZEUS. · 3 years ago

  One thing of note: If you are far enough from the solar system, all the outer wilds ventures align, and you can hear the full song. As the super nova consumes each planet, the corresponding sound goes out, until the ventures are all gone. This disappearance mirrors the events within the eye, each instrument being added and layered to once again play.

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• MU

  @muffinheart · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t know if it&apos;s been mentioned by other commenters but the idea of a new race (instrument) playing music 14.3 billion years later also has a message. Each race throughout the story had their own sound but also their own melodies. However, it was a Hearthean that entered The Eye. All the aliens we encounter play OUR melody at the end, and when we enter The Eye, it&apos;s our song, our hopes and dreams that carry on to the new universe.

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• BU

  @bubbasbigblast8563 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Oooh, something about Outer Wilds! Let&apos;s see what it&apos;s about!&quot;<br><i>Music Starts</i><br>&quot;Aaaaaand now I&apos;m sad again. Perfect.&quot;

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• CE

  @centurosproductions8827 · 3 years ago

  When showing &quot;all the ways you can die,&quot; you definitely left out the hideous wet crunch of being crushed by rising sand (or a falling elevator, if you&apos;re &quot;skilled&quot;). &nbsp;This is by far my least favorite way to die, just because the sound sets me immediately on edge.

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• FL

  @Florent-yy3pd · 2 years ago (edited)

  That thing you said about 14.3 billion years ending on a major chord tickled the music theorist in me so I tried finding it on my piano, and turns out it&apos;s a C major, which is pretty much the very first chord any musician will learn in their musical journey.<br><br>The game also ends with a musical beginning.

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• JA

  @jadegecko · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDoUT-sofQ&amp;t=1066">17:46</a> The polite little beep<br>As the sun is de-selected<br>Because it isn&apos;t there anymore

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• AR

  @artemisfowldragon · 3 years ago

  Fun fact, I was literally sobbing during the sequence where “echoes of the eye” was playing, I don’t know how Prahlow did it, but there is a truly unholy amount of emotion in that song

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