"Descending Forever" from Cthulhu Saves the World on Xbox Live Arcade, Windows, Linux, & Steam OS (2011)
Composer: Gordon McNeil
Album: Cthulhu Saves the World Original Sound Track
Label: Zeboyd Games
Publisher: Zeboyd Digital Entertainment
Developer: Zeboyd Digital Entertainment
In Cthulhu Saves the World, "Descending Forever" plays during the final two dungeons in the game. The first time is when you enter the lost City of R'lyeh, and the second time, after you defeat Golthulhu and you enter Beyond Angled Space to take on the final-final boss.
The song itself feels overly dramatic as your little 16x16 sprite crawls through this expansive dungeon, through winding paths and across vertigo-inducing bridges. If you played the game in any way similar to me, you might have spent the first half just trying to survive, making it to each next save point all the while lamenting the number of healing potions you last bought and your 1-Ups slowly dwindling as you revive your party yet again. Then, halfway through, you find yourself hanging around your recent save point, triggering fight after fight to work your way up to clearing out the remaining number of battles, and then finishing the dungeon to not be constantly attacked by wandering monsters. But even then, I still heard this song for well over an hour as I figured out the maze-like passages of R'lyeh.
It's a great song to (nearly) end the game on, and thankfully isn't nearly as chaotic as you might expect a dungeon called "Beyond Angled Space" to be, considering you're quickly approaching a battle between two elder gods.
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