Feb 20 2009
The World Ends with You Soundtracks - Be Prepared for Something Different
These aren’t two different covers for the same soundtrack; they are two completely different soundtrack compilations for The World Ends with You video game. Both provide songs from the video game, but each presents them differently. Either way, you’re in for a musical compilation totally different from any other video game soundtrack out there. Its closest comparison: Katamari Damacy. Or I should say, the only soundtrack with possibly weirder and well, more different music is Katamari Damacy.
The black album was released before the game even was. It contains 35 tracks of tunes directly taken from the video game, presented in the order the game presents them, no less. Want the hip hoppy tune heard while shopping for swag? This one has it.
So why even look at the silver album? Well if you’re a die hard fan. Duh. Or if you’re like me, a completionist with a collector’s mentality. Can’t do things in halves.
The silver album has 19 tracks of complete songs, a couple of them repeated for live versions. The game cuts up most of the songs and remixes them for a slight techno flair, and this collection has all of the songs in their original format.
Do I recommend one over the other? It depends what you’re looking for. If you want tracks directly from the game, buy the black album. If you like some of the songs from the black album enough to want to hear all versions of them, pick up the silver album. It’s hard to recommend buying just the silver album alone, unless you liked only a few of the songs from the game and can live without some of the random tracks, such as the tunes from the start up menu, phone menu, or shops.
But either soundtrack will fulfill your random desire for hip-hop/techno beats mixed in with a little J-pop. The game doesn’t have an orchestral score, so don’t expect to find one here either.
