Music Modding System – Nier and Drakengard Music Pack
This mod brings the music of the Nier/Drakengard/Drag-on Dragoon series into XCOM 2/WotC using The Music Modding System by E3245 and robojumper. You’ll need The Music Modding System installed to use it – but if you’ve got that installed, Subscribe and you’re good to go!
What’s the general vibe of this mod?
Intense percussion-driven orchestral compositions with vocals in ethereal, alien tongues. Some tracks mix different types of instrumentation from around the world into their composition, and some tracks mix the sounds of an alien presence or the sounds of alien machinery into their composition.
Is this mod compatible with both WotC and Legacy?
Hopefully. It was compiled in the WotC SDK, but all of the functionality it calls on comes directly from the Music Modding System, which in turn was compiled for Legacy and is just compatible with WotC anyway.
The file size is pretty ridiculous.
Yup. Because the Unreal Engine SDK was self-evidently designed by those who delight in the suffering of their fellow man, you’re only allowed to use audio that’s in the horribly outdated, horribly bloated .WAV format – hence the ridiculous filesize for this audio mod.
What’s the track list?
. Drakengard 3 – Turning Back ~ Main Menu Theme
. Nier: Automata – Significance – Main Menu Theme
. Nier: Automata – Fortress of Lies ~ Avenger Theme
. Nier: Automata – Blissful Death ~ Avenger Theme
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – Song of the Ancients (Devola/Popola) ~ Avenger/Geoscape Themes
. Drakengard 3 – Biased Crime ~ Geoscape Theme
. Nier: Automata – War and War ~ Loadout Theme
. Drakengard – Weapon Selection ~ Loadout Theme
. Nier: Automata – Crumbling Lies ~ Doom Clock Theme
. Drakengard – Mission Select ~ Skyranger Loading Screen Loop
. Nier: Automata – Wretched Weaponry ~ Stealth/Exploration Theme
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – Snow in Summer ~ Combat Theme
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – The Incomplete Stone ~ Combat Theme
. Nier: Automata – Alien Manifestation ~ Combat Theme
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – The Wretched Automatons ~ Stealth/Exploration and Combat Themes (in a particular mission 👀)
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – Shadowlord’s Castle (Memory) ~ Stealth/Exploration Theme (in a particular mission 👀)
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – Song of the Ancients (Fate) ~ Combat Theme (Avenger Defence)
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – The Dark Colossus Destroys All ~ Combat Theme (Retaliation Mission)
. Nier: Automata – Grandma (Destruction) ~ Combat Theme (Retaliation Mission)
. Nier: Automata – Bipolar Nightmare ~ Combat Theme (in a particular mission 👀)
. Nier: Gestalt/Replicant – The Ultimate Weapon ~ Loadout Theme (Final Mission)
. Nier: Automata – The Tower ~ it’s a mystery 👀
. Nier: Automata – The End of YoRHa, Drag-on Dragoon Chips Music – Exhausted (Piano), Nier Gestalt/Replicant Jazz Arrange Version – Flower (Yonah – Piano) ~ Credits Theme And I’m tempted to bloat the filesize up with more tracks for the credits still.
What’s next?
Maybe some sorta Kenji Kawai music pack. No promises.
I’ve had a new version of the mod mostly ready to go for a while, except that the majority of the additions in the new version are dependant on functionality that isn’t present in the current Music Modding System (or at least in the WotC-compatible Music Modding System). So that it isn’t all going completely to waste until a new version of the Music Modding System (or of an equivalent) is released, you can find the raw project files for updated version of the mod {LINK REMOVED} if you wish to listen to them or to tinker with them.
(Addendum: The Steam Workshop is the devil. The download link for the project files can be found here: https://pastebin.com/ziezbSB1 )
