Crimson Nagus

Interesting, so the Lust and Betrayal score track contains unused alternate music for the reprise.

The way these soundtracks have been released has been so annoying. While I have enjoyed editing my own versions, because I enjoy music editing, it’s still annoying. I am a fan of the Broadway show and have had 20 years+ of enjoying the broadway album. If I want to hear the broadway versions of the songs, I’ll play that album. So, why would I want the movie soundtrack to mimic the Broadway songs? That makes no sense to me, I already have that album. I want an album that represents the movie’s version of these songs. Your edit of Wicked Witch of the East is amazing. It’s what should have been on the OST.

Can the end credits be recreated with what is on the album? I haven’t seen the movie yet, just curious. I’m trying to decide where to slot the main theme track in my list. It is almost too much of the theme over and over at the beginning of the album, but slotting it at the end almost feels too much there as well.

This tracks also reminds me of the beginning of the Ironclad theme from Sahara. I’m not good with musical terms so bear with me, but a number of the Fleming tracks just repeat the same segment of JW’s theme over and over and over, back-to-back-to-back. He never moves on to the next segment to complete that portion of the theme and it is so unsatisfying and frustrating to listen too.

I just don’t think WB has invested all this money in other properties, like Hogwarts Legacy and the theme park lands and attractions, to completely change the design language of the universe. No, I don’t think things will look exactly the same but I think they will feel the same, if that makes sense. Like Hogwarts changes some from the movies to the games to the Universal attractions but, it generally feels like the same castle. WB is not going to want a new generation, growing up on this show, to visit the theme park attractions and say “this isn’t Harry Potter”.

Here are my edited versions. I do not call these film version because we can't make true film versions with the currently released material. I also took some editing liberties to try and make most of the edit points as musically pleasing as possible, well, at least as good as my amateur editing skills allow. Dancing Through Life has a pretty rough crossfade but, it's the best I could do. Downloading is disable for these because I do not intend to distribute these tracks. I just wanted to allow you guys to listen to them. https://on.soundcloud.com/u3ePrPtb4EtV6tPw7 https://on.soundcloud.com/nt1izSBRTMvozLXP9 https://on.soundcloud.com/gNVmroKukhgfyFnE6

I really like this, thank you. I have also been looking for the versions of the title card used in the movie to try and add to some custom artwork but haven't found it yet.

Is the end of the FYC track “The Cape” ( or about 3:32 of All Around Defying Gravity on the score album) not the moment you are talking about? Sounds like there is some low brass in there but it is not just low brass. I haven’t seen the film so, I wouldn’t know.

Great finale and I still love this ending. I’m glad people who do not play video games can experience this story. I like the added scenes of Ellie’s birth. I also like how Anna tells a lie, like Joel, when she tells Marlene that she was bit before Ellie was born. She has to say “before” twice. I think Marlene decides to accept the lie, while not believing it, to maintain their friendship in that moment. This is what I think Ellie does at the very end as well. There was something special about seeing the actor who helped “birth” Ellie in the game birth her in the show. Kind of a passing the torch moment. I think the use of a montage for Joel’s action, and the use of the music from him crying Ellie out in the game, was to symbolize the brutality and sadness of his actions. I’m curious how game players did this section of the game? You could go in guns a blazing like the show. You could be more stealthy and take them out silently or you could go complete stealth and not kill anyone, well, except the doctor. I was stealthy and took each guy out silently, I also let the 2 nurse live. From this point on the show is almost a carbon copy of the game. Just a few dialogue changes were all I noticed. We didn’t get another “baby girl” from Joel as he picked up Ellie off of the operating table, like we did in the game. They also cut one of my favorite lines. When Ellie is telling Joel about Riley, just after she mention they decided to “lose their minds together”, in the show she says “and she did… and I had to- -“. In the game she says this instead, “I’m still waiting for my turn.” I love that line and it is also another indication that Ellie would have been willing to sacrifice herself for the greater good. That’s how I took it from the game. @Jay asked earlier what would we have done, are we for or against Joel’s choices. It’s funny, the official podcast actually spoke to my answer when they mentioned a poll they did with play testers during the original game’s development. As a parent of 3 kids, I’m 100% in the Joel camp and would have done the same thing in the hospital. Not my kid, find someone else, I don’t care. I’m saving my child. As for the lie, I honestly could see myself lying because I might be scared that the truth would make my child hate me. Joel lied thinking he was protecting Ellie from the dark truth of what he did, at this point he doesn’t know what is going to happen next and neither would we. I could see my self doing the same for the exact same reason, even if it is wrong. But I’m saving my child. No doubt about it.

I think the show’s length has been fine. On YT, you can find cutscene edits of the first game and it is not as long as I think many people remember. Edits that even include all crucial dialogue sequences run 3:30 to 6 hours long, just depends on how much gameplay they include. Depending on your play style, this game can be completed in 10 hours if you don’t search for all loot and the collectibles. My first play through took 18-20 hours but, I’m a slow game player and search every area for a long time. I also died a lot and had to repeat plenty of sections. The show, including the last episode will be about 8 hours, 40 minutes long. But you have to take away 1:40 because 45 minutes of episode 3 are not in the game at all and almost all of episode 7 was DLC, released a year later. So that leaves 7 hours which is very comparable to the game’s length minus some of the gameplay action. (I think I did my math right) I just think splitting it over 2 season would have added a lot of needless filler. I have enjoyed the quick, tight pace, especially compared to something like The Walking Dead. I stopped watching that somewhere in season 5 and never went back. It was just moving way to slow and didn’t seem like it was going anywhere. I really enjoyed the episode 8. I don’t really have much to add outside of what others have said. Although, this is one action sequence I wish they didn’t skip. David and Ellie fighting infected together caused Ellie to trust him more, especially when he reveals he still had a hidden gun the whole time. This was while they were waiting for James to return with the medicine. This was a huge swarm in the game so, maybe make it smaller in the show but, I was surprised they didn’t even have to fight a few together.

Oops, that’s right.

I like that as well. Lots of little hints, Easter eggs that they couldn’t do at the time of the first game for obvious reasons. I’m excited to see if they have any big hints in the final episode. I could see them going either way and I will not be disappointed if they don’t, especially with the known run time. It is an opportunity they didn’t have back in 2003 2013.

There were no guitar playing/singing moments in the first game. Those were all in the second game. The only time it is even really mentioned in the first game is when Joel admits to Ellie, at the University, about wanting to be a singer. Ellie ask him to sing, he says no but promises to teach her to play when they get back to Jackson.

Yep, for the most part. I just played the game in October so it is all pretty fresh. There are a few just happen through out the game. Others you have to stand in a location and await awhile for a conversation prompt from Ellie. There are something like 7 or 8 hidden jokes like that, mostly in the Pittsburg and Suburb chapters. Near the end of the game you find a copy of the book, maybe it was vol 1, as a collectible. I can’t remember if it was a different volume or the same on Ellie already had. But, yes, she already has it and suddenly pulls it out of her pack early in the Pittsburgh chapter.

That’s almost exactly where the DLC ends although a little reversed. Ellie gets back to Joel and starts to stitch him up then it cuts back to Ellie and Riley for the last little bit of their conversation and ends on a close up of Ellie wiping her tears away. It was also a gift from Riley in the DLC. While you can find a copy of the book in the game near the end, Ellie actually already has it in her possession. The first time she pulls it out at reads some jokes in not long after the start of the Pittsburg chapter.