Story time!

I’ve always been a huge fan of credits/outro themes, be it for games or animes. Especially if the lyrics connected to the game. Back in 2017 when I released the first English demo of Numina I knew I wanted something similar for the game so I found a (at least back then) CC Commons song called “Rain Begins to Fall” by “Silence is Sexy” which I really liked. 

The lyrics talk about dealing with a darker time in life, trauma or pain (the rain) and that it’s not always sunshine and that’s okay. There’ll always be a time when the rain comes - or begins to fall. I thought it really encapsulated Shawn’s story arc in that demo about dealing with loss. I even changed the in-game ending a bit to include rainfall just before the final scene to tie in the theme, which is a bit cringey if I think about it now, ahaha 🙈

Fast-forward to 2022. During the lockdown I’ve picked up music making as a hobby and it was a real joy discovering this new creative outlet. Up to that point Thomas J. Peters had done most of Numina’s soundtrack (and what an amazing job he has done!) For the credits of Numina Part I we decided on re-using the Part I trailer theme during the credits. But I knew that I wanted something more impactful for the final credits of Part II and so the song Echoes was born.

It was a huge undertaking and finishing the song took me over a year, from the composing stage to actually writing lyrics and then collaborating with a very talented singer. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I actually did all of it, but I’m very proud of the song and that it’s something special. 

Echoes is a break-up song, but as Numina deals with your relationship as a player with the game itself, I found it fitting to be a song about saying goodbye - to the game. To Shawn as his Guardian Spirit and the world of Alterna. It made a lot of sense as a credits theme but I also wanted it to be epic so that I could use it as a trailer theme. I think it gave the trailers for Part II a real edge 🙂

You can get the song as part of the Numina「ECHOES」OST release. A bundle of 19 tracks that I worked on for both Part I & II => https://store.steampowered.com/app/2264250/NuminaECHOESSoundtrack/

Numina Part II is almost here, and I can’t wait for all of you to play it and read your reactions!

Thank u!