Song: On the Champs - Désolés
Game: The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine (DLC)
Composers: Marcin Przybylowicz, Mikolai Stroinski, and Piotrek Musial
The final expansion for The Witcher 3 came out a few weeks ago and I've been playing it nonstop ever since. I played the base game for over 100 hours, and absolutely loved my time with it. Rarely do video games depict a world doused in such profound sadness. Choices in this franchise are never binary good and bad choices. Everything sucks, but it's okay so you're playing as an emotionally devoid mutant killer, Well, Geralt isn't totally devoid of emotion, but he definitely isn't as animated as a normal person. He was made into a Witcher to hunt monsters, and that's what he does.
On top of the superb writing and world building The Witcher 3 has some incredible music. What's cool about the newest DLC Blood and Wine is that it has an entirely new score. On the Champs - Désolés is heard pretty early on in the DLC and got me very excited. The Duchess of Touissant and Geralt rush off as they realize that someone else is about to die to the monster plaguing the land. There's no build up to the song. It just starts up and you know things are popping off. There's a freaking accordion solo in the song! It's appropriately ominous and really got my blood pumping.
I thought it would only come up in story sequences, but the song also plays when Geralt is taking on some of the stronger monsters in the DLC. It comes in to signify a life or death scenario and I absolutely love it.
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