{"id":426395,"date":"2023-11-09T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/?p=426395"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T23:33:45","slug":"official-god-of-war-ragnarok-lo-fi-video-lets-us-relax-between-slaying-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/official-god-of-war-ragnarok-lo-fi-video-lets-us-relax-between-slaying-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Official God of War Ragnarok Lo-Fi video lets us relax between slaying gods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Kratos&#8217; vicious past, you wouldn&#8217;t expect a <em>God of War Ragnarok<\/em> Lo-Fi video to surface. However, PlayStation and a few musicians, including Alex Moukala, have released such a thing, and it&#8217;s relaxing AF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"God of War Ragnar\u00f6k - LoFi Beats to Journal to | PlayStation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8iiQF3WaPeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-chilling-out-with-atreus\">Chilling out with Atreus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/god-of-war-ragnarok-voice-actors-cast-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atreus<\/a>, in this video published Thursday, takes the place of the kid studying. As the chill music is playing, he&#8217;s writing in his journal. The Lo-Fi beats in the background are from popular musician and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AlexMoukalaMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alex Moukala<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PokariBass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pokari<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Earlier this year, Sony asked me to create some <em>God of War: Ragnarok<\/em> Lo-Fi remixes for them,&#8221; Moukala on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex_moukala\/status\/1722698407884497378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social media<\/a>. &#8220;As a massive Bear McCreary fan I was overjoyed and simply couldn&#8217;t say no!&#8221; The composer later said &#8220;the whole process made [him] appreciate <em>God of War<\/em>&#8216;s soundtrack even more than [he] already did.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three McCreary songs both Moukala and Polari remixed are: &#8220;Huldra Brothers,&#8221; &#8220;Memories of Mother,&#8221; and the <em>God of War Ragnar\u00f6k<\/em> theme. They sound fantastic and are currently powering me through this news story. The animation is also expressive and slightly changes over the span of the 32-minute video. It was drawn and animated by Spud Gun Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moukala has been busy over the past few years. He&#8217;s behind the soundtrack for the fan-based <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/revisited-final-fantasy-ixs-mechanics-of-identity\/\">Final Fantasy IX<\/a>: Memoria Project<\/em> and interviewed the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/reviews\/review-like-a-dragon-gaiden-the-man-who-erased-his-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yakuza<\/a> <\/em>game composers on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RZJVwxkOVHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>. In the past, he&#8217;s also turned the macabre <em>Bloodborne <\/em>music into a dazzling <em>Mario Kart <\/em>track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What if Bloodborne sounded like Mario Kart?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/my5gQPkhkQ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God of War: Ragnarok <\/em>celebrates its one-year anniversary this week. When it was first released, it received critical praise across the board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>God of War Ragnarok<\/em>&nbsp;is a fantastic showcase of what this series has to offer, and a sterling example of how it still has life left in it,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/reviews\/review-god-of-war-ragnarok-ps5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our review<\/a>. &#8220;While not everything lands with the sequel from a story perspective, the core of the original is preserved, with some new twists and turns still to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to relax, BOY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":852,"featured_media":426429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"[]","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[19131,21302,478,217,19114,19116,1106],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[23725],"article_type":[23116],"coauthors":[{"id":852,"display_name":"Chris Penwell","user_nicename":"chris-penwell"}],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/God-of-War-Ragnarok-Lo-fi-is-super-relaxing.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","author_info":{"display_name":"Chris Penwell","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/author\/chris-penwell\/"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/God-of-War-Ragnarok-Lo-fi-is-super-relaxing.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426543,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426395\/revisions\/426543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426395"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=426395"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=426395"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=426395"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=426395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}