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Which game soundtrack will make me buy a record player?

It's only a matter of time

One of these days, I'm almost certainly going to buy a record player for the sake of a video game soundtrack. As surely as the sun rises, it's inevitable. I can feel it in my bones. So far, I have resisted temptation and stuck steadfast to my love of CDs when it comes to hunting down game soundtracks, but vinyl records are becoming more and more common by the day, it seems.

Case in point: Supergiant Games have just announced a 10th Anniversary Orchestral Collection featuring arrangements from Bastion, Transistor, Pyre and Hades. It's exactly my kind of thing. I love a good orchestral arrangement. But there's one problem. It's only on vinyl.

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Katharine Castle: Katharine was RPS' editor-in-chief from 2021 to 2024. She first joined the team in 2017 as their hardware editor, and she continues to play pretty much anything she can get her hands on. She's very partial to JRPGs and the fetching of quests, but also loves strategy and turn-based tactics games and will never say no to a good Metroidvania.
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