{"id":12705,"date":"2023-12-20T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/video-games-and-musical-theatre-2023s-most-unlikely-crossover\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:37:49","slug":"video-games-and-musical-theatre-2023s-most-unlikely-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/video-games-and-musical-theatre-2023s-most-unlikely-crossover\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games and musical theatre: 2023\u2019s most unlikely crossover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a remarkable intersection between video games and musical performance this year, from villains lending vocals to their own theme tunes to interactive songs<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, widely considered the most outstanding video game released this year, you can literally go to hell. If you do, you\u2019ll have a showdown with the game\u2019s equivalent of the devil, a charismatic yet demonic trickster who calls himself Raphael.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the toughest, most dramatic encounters in the game, the culmination of 150 hours of play. Naturally, developer Larian Studios wanted it to feel monumental. So they decided that the battle should be accompanied by a song, and that Raphael should be the one singing it. \u201cThe idea for a song to be performed by Raphael himself came from our director Swen Vincke about six months before the release of the game,\u201d says Borislav Slavov, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s music director. \u201cThe team instantly loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/dec\/20\/video-games-and-musical-theatre-2023s-most-unlikely-crossover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c394d19b88ca8773e6f42884a33e00431f8254ec\/0_0_3790_2275\/master\/3790.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9fc1fc807bc8b9f65ef52e0b4f8b266a\" title=\"Video games and musical theatre: 2023\u2019s most unlikely crossover?\" \/>There has been a remarkable intersection between video games and musical performance this year, from villains lending vocals to their own theme tunes to interactive songs<br \/>\nToward the end of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, widely considered the most outstanding video game released this year, you can literally go to hell. If you do, you\u2019ll have a showdown with the game\u2019s equivalent of the devil, a charismatic yet demonic trickster who calls himself Raphael.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s one of the toughest, most dramatic encounters in the game, the culmination of 150 hours of play. Naturally, developer Larian Studios wanted it to feel monumental. So they decided that the battle should be accompanied by a song, and that Raphael should be the one singing it. \u201cThe idea for a song to be performed by Raphael himself came from our director Swen Vincke about six months before the release of the game,\u201d says Borislav Slavov, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s music director. \u201cThe team instantly loved it.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a remarkable intersection between video games and musical performance this year, from villains lending vocals to their own theme tunes to interactive songs Toward the end of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, widely considered the most outstanding video game released this year, you can literally go to hell. If you do, you\u2019ll have a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/video-games-and-musical-theatre-2023s-most-unlikely-crossover\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video games and musical theatre: 2023\u2019s most unlikely crossover?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}