..., at least) that the “good ’ol days” of 16-bit pixel art and character designs that are now synonymous with the popular JRPG series are over thirty years behind us. 1 transmediality PlayStation reception audience Nobuo Uematsu remakes history © 2023 by the Society for the Study of Sound...

...-level narrative dictate the speed at which the game is played, embodying the fragmentary temporal experience often attributed to the effects of trauma. Such a perspective traces the ways in which trauma theory has the potential to inform audience reception to video game music. In this article, I argue...