Video Game Music Spotlight #5: Cityscapes & Small Town Folk

VGChartz's Taneli Palola: "We tend to use a pretty weird system to categorize video game music when you really think about it. We rarely think of any particular video game song in terms of its genre, but rather in terms of where it's placed in the game it appears on.

We don't, for example, tend to talk about rock, pop, jazz, metal, or any other specific genre when discussing video game music. Instead, it's battle music, or dungeon music, or, for the following nine tracks, town music. It's odd on the face of it, and yet it still feels like a very natural way to separate and categorize different pieces of video game music."