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[commodore swift]

Coming from someone who posted this,

Uh, they sound kinda electric or maybe techno. Or differing, I dunno. I'm not a music expert. I liked them.

your theory about fades providing song structure does not seem credible.

[creativebunch]

This is my experience of the first 5 minutes:

Spoiler

After having that annoying unskippable dream, the character decides to assume it's true. So after talking to a few people I found this hacker guy who kindly hacks me access as a waiter so I can go go tell the captain about my dream. After going into the next room I walk up to who I can only assume is the captain and tell him we are all in danger, he doesn't believe me but decides to give this potentially deranged mechanic posing as a waiter access to the scanning room, so off I go.

I went up the green see through lift and performed the scan. Windows found a potentially explorable planet, and then something crashed into the ship etc. When I went back down a few people had been melted to the floor, but I could see I needed to go right based on the runway lights someone had kindly put up for me in the 22 seconds after the collision.

After the ship crashed into the planet I awoke on the planet with other survivors, I talked to a guy who promptly tried to kill me, and after failing tried to cover it up by pretending he pressed the wrong button.. Yeah right. Getting outside I lagged tremendously, I walked around for a bit, went into buildings I could, got donkey punched by a sea monster and went onto a sky platform held up only by front supports. I don't like the type of games that give me no clue of what to do and just stick me some place assuming I know where to go. So I got bored pretty damn quickly and quit.

I may go back to it but I highly doubt it. I must say the protagonists desire to whisper sensually into peoples ears instead of speaking directly to their faces kind of put me off.

I like adventure games, but something about this one didn't sit right with me.

On the music, after listening to each track individually I did not hear one track that did not have unique parts, each song was definitely put together that way purposefully and are not just extended loop sequences as commodore swift suggests.

[commodore swift]

Play the game for longer and you'll see what I mean. It doesn't matter if having a fade makes the beginning of the track "unique." They all get extremely tiresome after 10 minutes or so, and some minor variation on a loop doesn't really help. You shouldn't really be judging the music separately from the game in the first place.

[mcoot]

Ah well. Some people never seem to learn, do they?

But in all seriousness, I never particularly got into Ark22. There were annoying hit-box glitches and the story didn't make a big impression on me (it wasn't terrible though).

The music was alright. Kind of repetitive, but certainly not 'six second loop' repetitive.

[theALCH3MIST]

Great game [I discovered it just now]. For some reason, it reminds me very much of the Pokemon RPGs, although it's more akin to Aveyond.

[czechmate]

Although it is incredibly flawed I enjoyed Ark 22 a ton back in 2007 and still enjoy it today. I have a feeling it just has a quality that some people recognize and enjoy. If it is ignored the entire game most likely seems awful.