Halberd - Depths of the Lich Lord
Released: August 11 Returning with his first release under the Halberd moniker, composer Georgie Franco brings us an impressive and expansive new album of chiptune dungeon synth fun and adventure. It’s so well executed that I felt as though I had just played any one of my old school RPG favorites - Lufia, Breath of Fire, maybe even a bit of Zelda - again. The album has an amazing flow to it, really solidifying a sort of storyline from beginning to the epic end in which our heroes finally vanquish the enemy they set out to at the start. While the whole album is wonderful, they were a few moments that really stood out for me. One of the first that really hit was “Slime Battle,” just for being some of the best mini-boss fight tracks here. A driving bass line with tense and cheesy strings and an end where the noisy bits are given just a moment to sizzle a bit of the way out, like an 8-bit fire slowly burning out. “The Cave Darkens” makes for perfect exposition music, as if the h...
