BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast

Bonus Episode #77 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan reviews The Blood of Dawnwalker, the debut RPG and the opening chapter of a brand new saga developed by Rebel Wolves and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, out now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. It's a dark fantasy open-world action RPG set in Vale Sangora, a plague-choked valley tucked into the 14th-century Carpathian Mountains, wh...

Episode #441 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth grab a fresh set of dice, argue over who gets to be the party's healer, and descend into the sprawling, dungeon-crawling, dragon-hoarding world that started it all: Dungeons & Dragons! From the earliest computer RPGs that ever dared to put a spellbook on a screen to modern MMORPG expansions, we're adventuring through a theme that basically...

Bonus Episode #76 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan reviews Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the long-awaited franchise revival developed and published by Capcom, out now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. As the first mainline entry since Dawn of Dreams in 2006, it drops you into a dark fantasy version of Edo-era Kyoto twisted by a corrupting force called Malice, where a young, ...

Episode #440 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth hop into the nearest questionable-looking mine cart, release the brake, and immediately regret every decision that led them here. From haunted ruins and glowing mushroom caves to muddy swamps, abandoned factories, ancient shipyards, and whatever OSHA nightmare Donkey Kong has waiting underground, we're taking a ride through one of gaming's mos...

Bonus Episode #75 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan reviews Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, the standalone prequel from Asobo Studio and publisher Focus Entertainment, out now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with a day-one release on Xbox Game Pass. Set fifteen years before A Plague Tale: Requiem, you play as Sophia, a young plunderer who flees a Venice heist gone wrong and sails toward Mi...

Episode #439 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth have a long overdue one. We're finally highlighting the career of Michiru Yamane, a composer whose name has become inseparable from gothic grandeur even as her catalog stretches far beyond the castle walls she's best known for. After studying composition at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, where she built her thesis around ...

Episode #438 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan closes out August 2026 with another eclectic mix in Radio Hour, Volume 90!

This time around, there's a remastered legend of an opener that needs no introduction, a boss theme from a game that wrecked my confidence and lived to tell about it, a Uematsu deep cut hiding inside a game series that refuses to take itself seriously, and a three-track spotlight o...

Bonus Episode #74 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan reviews Duskfade, the throwback 3D action-platformer from Spanish studio Weird Beluga and publisher Fireshine Games, out now on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2. In a clockwork world called Tearfeld that's been dropped into endless night by a mysterious Clock Tower, you play as Zirian, a young workshop apprentice who grabs hi...

Episode #437 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth board a spacecraft and blast off on a grand tour of the solar system. From the scorched rock of Mercury baking next to the Sun, out through the ruins of Venus and the god of chaos himself, past the red dust of Mars and the doomed little moon circling it, all the way to the frozen edge of everything and back again.

Strap in for a journey that r...

Bonus Episode #73 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Kyle venture into Beast of Reincarnation, Game Freak's bold step beyond Pokémon into a somber, post-apocalyptic action RPG that pairs a cursed young outcast named Emma with her Blight-touched dog, Koo, on a journey across a ruined Japan in the year 4026.

Across the conversation, the duo digs into the game's parry-driven combat and its clever fusi...

Episode #436 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth wash up on the shores of the Spirhalite Islands for a Blind Listen through the soundtrack of Splatoon Raiders, the first-ever Splatoon spin-off.

This one trades the series' catchy, funky hooks for something stranger and saltier... an abrasive, atmospheric score credited to a fake label of sea creatures and salt puns, sounding at times like it ...

Episode #435 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth dust off two of gaming's most fascinating oddities: the FM Towns and the FM Towns Marty. If you've ever wanted to hear what happens when a Japanese computer decides it wants to be an arcade machine... well, today's your lucky day.

The guys dive into a library packed with enhanced ports, forgotten exclusives, gorgeous CD audio, and enough FM To...

Episode #434 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan wraps up the month of July 2026 with another eclectic mix in Radio Hour, Volume 89!

Another month, another grab bag of new releases, forgotten oddities, and picks I can't fully explain but absolutely stand by. We've got a couple of fresh soundtracks I've been sitting with, a listener submission so gloriously strange I can't stop thinking about it, a Mega ...

Bonus Episode #72 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan reviews Denshattack!, the off-the-rails arcade platformer from Barcelona studio Undercoders and publisher Fireshine Games, out now on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Set in a near-future Japan flattened by climate disaster, the game follows Emi, a ramen delivery driver who trades her quiet route for the underground wor...

Episode #433 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth put on their explorer hats and take a trip down to the Amazon. Grab your machete and bug spray!

From lost cities and hidden gold to survival horror where the jungle waits you out, the rainforest has never been one single thing. We'll go from a dinosaur-infested Amazon speedway to a Sierra cue that nobody heard for thirty years, through helicop...

Episode #432 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth present the annual Randomizer episode, this year with a very special twist.

Bryan's best friend and beloved companion of the last 12+ years unfortunately suddenly passed away on July 2nd. Randomizer IV is completely dedicated to his life and memory. Run free and rest easy, Avenger.

Email the show at bgmaniapodcast@gmail.com with requests for u...

Episode #431 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth are back with the monthly Blind Listen, this time focusing on the recently released Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, Star Fox.

A remake of the Nintendo 64 version, which itself was a reboot of the Super Nintendo version, this latest entry tells the same tale of Fox all over again, now with updated visuals and an impressively redone soundtrack. As ...

Bonus Episode #71 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Kyle explore The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, Square Enix's ambitious new HD-2D action RPG that blends real-time combat, exploration, and time-travel into an epic adventure spanning a thousand years.

Throughout the episode, the duo shares their thoughts on Elliot's journey across multiple eras, the satisfying blend of action and pu...

Episode #430 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth are taking a hard left turn away from the Mushroom Kingdom and diving headfirst into the wide, wonderful, and occasionally chaotic world of non-Mario Kart kart racers.

From Diddy Kong Racing to Crash Team Racing, from a Bloodborne-inspired gothic nightmare to a Muppet-filled trip to Fraggle Rock, we're celebrating the kart racing genre's rich ...