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Recently, Supergiant Games released the title "Bastion". You can get it on the Xbox 360 marketplace or download it from Steam for about £11.50. It has precisely two noteworthy features: The first is that there is an in-game "narrator" (kind-of like "The Stanley Parable" but not nearly as snarky) that breathes quite a lot of life into an otherwise traditional "hack and slash" dungeon-crawler. The second is the quite-sensationally-brilliant soundtrack, which is as wonderful as it is haunting.
One of the characters sings this song (this is not a spoiler):
I like this song so much, I wrote down the lyrics to help me remember them:
Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)I dig my hole, you build a wall
I dig my hole, you build a wall
one day that wall is gonna fallgonna build that city on a hill
gonna build that city on a hill
some day those tears are gonna spillso build that wall
and build it strong cause
we'll be there before too longgonna build that wall up to the sky
gonna build that wall up to the sky
some day your bird is gonna flygonna build that wall until it's done
so build that wall
gonna build that wall until it's done
but now you've got nowhere to run
and build it strong cause
we'll be there before too long
As for the game, it's QGIP (Quite Good In Parts), although it had me screaming obscenities at the top of my lungs at several points as the developers declined to include sensible save checkpoints and preferred to incorporate enemies that can easily kill you in one or two hits right at the very end of a level (back to square one for YOU m'boy!). This can be slightly mitigated by choosing the right "tonics" from the "distillery", but by the time you get to use them properly you're sufficiently powerful for it not to be a massive problem. Grrr. (It's also very pretty to look at thanks to some lovely in-game art that makes you wish they had slightly more cash to add a bit more variety to the animation).
The soundtrack really is quite something though, and it's worth checking out for this alone. Indeed, it's available as a standalone download from here.