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Playing a lot of Cyberpunk last month already had me thinking about this one a lot but playing Alan Wake II immediately after is only reinforcing how much I love this trope: having music composed for a fictional band within the game world. This music may or may not be done by an actual real-world band. Cyberpunk has Refused standing in for Samurai and Remedy obviously has Poets of the fall for Old Gods of Asgard. And in both cases, I love the fictional band way more than the real one lol. I love that Remedy's connected universe thing is keeping Old Gods going throughout their various games. It's been almost a week since I've played the Herald of Darkness chapter in Alan Wake II and I still can't stop thinking about it lol. And I'm going to be genuinely bummed out if the Cyberpunk sequel doesn't come with new Samurai music. So, I've been wondering if there are other examples of this. I know there's a (pretty good) full album for Star-Lord from the recent Eidos Guardians of the Galaxy game, although I don't think that one has a real-world counterpart. Can't really think of anything else, though.

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