History SoundtrackDissonance / VideoGames

* ''[[CapcomVsWhatever Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]'' features epic battles between uber-powerful warriors and friggin' ''superheroes'', yet it's scored with a bizarre mix of elevator muzak and lounge tunes that would be out of place in pretty much any setting that ''isn't'' an elevator or a lounge. The absurd dissonance here is about on par with using zydeco music in ''Silent Hill'', and even better: you can't turn it off or adjust the volume. Oh, it's gonna take you for a ride, all right...

** Well, I for one liked the soundtrack, it made the battles feel dramatic rather than just energetic. So, [[Your Mileage May Vary]].

** The last bramble level was an exception. It was a race against an evil parrot that used intense music for a good portion of the level. However, the music still played during the rest of the level, and to make up for this brief period of fitting music, this was the last level before the epic battle to save DK. That means that if you go straight into the next area, ignoring the map screen's music, you go straight from the above song to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSmDgjNnfzM&feature=related ''THIS'']].

* ''{{Disgaea 3}}'' is a game with some pretty epic music, so you'd expect the game over music to be pretty depressing. So what exactly ''do'' you hear when you die? ''An unbelievably cheerful tune with sickeningly cute vocals.''

** Backtracking to [[GrandTheftAutoII Grand Theft Auto 2]], you'll find [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQULRb2oH4 this Christian pop song]] in what should be a dark cyberpunk future, coupled with lyrics that preaches the exact opposite of what a player would normally be doing in a GTA game.

* in the ''FateStayNight'' visual novel during Shirou's battle with [[spoiler:Archer]], rather than having the amazing Emiya play in the background, they have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GbctgywNBg This]] play instead. Rather than present the battle as epic and amazing, it is presented as tragic.

** The elevator music-style "Crimson Wings".

* The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLiRgNFvfGw Arnhem Knights]]" level in ''Medal Of Honor: Frontline'' is a heated battle in the streets and ruins of Arnhem set to slow, melancholy Dutch CherubicChoir music. Actually somewhat justified, as the Allies lost the battle in real life.

* The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLiRgNFvfGw Arnhem Knights]]" level in ''Medal Of Honor: Frontline'' is a heated battle in the streets and ruins of Arnhem set to slow, melancholy Dutch CherubicChoir music. Doubly subverting this trope is the fact that the Allies lost the battle in real life.

** The "Rough Landing" level has similar choral music.

* The ending credits theme for most video games is a triumphant or happy piece, or a medley of the various songs throughout the game. However, in ''MarioAndLuigi: Partners in Time'', the ending credits theme is instead played by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujQwJdykk68 a very sinister-sounding oom-pah band]] for some odd reason.

* ''{{Quake}} II'' shipped with a hard-driving industrial metal soundtrack CD put together specifically for the game to put you in an ass-kicking mood. Without it, the game's dark areas, ultra-violence and horror themes really take over.

* Aversion : [[MemeticMutation Guile's theme goes with everything!]]

** Route 209, which is remixed to be even more upbeat and cheerful, can be played on the grueling stage of Spear Pillar, which has the legendaries of Diamond and Pearl attacking you with huge laser rays and exploding platforms.

** With some Windows PC games where the soundtrack resided on the game CD as CD Audio, it can be possible to swap the game CD with an Audio CD of your choice and use that CD's audio (eg if the game doesn't require its game CD to execute itself or continue running after launching).

** Don't forget the fact that the Pokémon Centre theme plays on one of the Pokémon stages. Think about it for a minute. A piece of music that normally plays in a place of healing, in a fighting game.

*** Hey, don't compare "Calling to the Night" to "My Heart Will Go On". Celine Dion doesn't even belong being tangentially relevant to something from Metal Gear Solid. Or...the last decade in general.

** Earlier in the game you are tasked with killing everything that moves in a mansion, with a classical piece playing in the background.
*** The piece was "Ave Maria." It's coming from a television inside the house that is scrolling the production credits for Raven Shield, possibly a reference to the "Hitman" series.

* In ''EndlessOcean Blue World'', the music that plays when you're swimming in the Triton Village Ruins area of Ciceros Strait gives off a tense feeling. It's appropriate... the ''first'' time, when you first encounter [[spoiler:a shark that isn't calmed by Pulsar shots.]] All the other times you go there, however, there is no danger, and still the music plays. (However, you can later buy a jukebox that overrides the music until you leave Nineball Island and return.)

*** Hey, don't compare "Calling to the Night" to "My Heart Will Go On". Celine Dion doesn't even belong being tangentially relevant to something from Metal Gear Solid.