Guild Wars 2

After you get past the first check point in w1z2 the music changes. After looking at the trees and environment; the little windows in the trees and jumping up in the trees I thought that the world seemed influenced by the game Wizards and Warriors for the NES.

The music for w1z2 doesn’t seem to mimic too much of the music from Wizards and Warriors. But the song for w1z2 sounds so familiar.

This is the closest song I have found on the NES to this song. The melody @ 15 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02X-EOt6Q_k&nohtml5=False

Compare it with the melody from w1z2. listen to the part @ 5:19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjqqgFqltWo

Anywho I just want to say that I get nostalgia vibes with this zone. Is there a song or level in another game that is even closer?

There’s a video on youtube that actually has the various musical pieces from world 1 with a paragraph from the composer describing the basics of each piece as they start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ut8xPZVLMQ

And I seem to recall that two of the GW2 composers did a blog post (here on the main website) about the technical aspects of creating music like this, if you’re interested in tracking that down.

Thanks for that link RoseofGilead,

That is an interesting read.