Bonus Episode #74 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan reviews Duskfade, the throwback 3D action-platformer from Spanish studio Weird Beluga and publisher Fireshine Games, out now on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2. In a clockwork world called Tearfeld that's been dropped into endless night by a mysterious Clock Tower, you play as Zirian, a young workshop apprentice who grabs his grandfather's clock-hand blade, teams up with a mechanical bird named Cuckoo, and sets out to rescue his sister and get time moving again.

This Musical Review takes a long look at the momentum-driven platforming and the way jumps, grappling, gliding, and rail grinding chain into something joyful, the combat and imaginative boss battles, the storybook realms that stretch from leafy forests to drowned depths to floating heights, and the earnest coming-of-age story sitting underneath all that color. Bryan spends plenty of time on the game's proud Kingdom Hearts inspiration, the Spanish folklore woven into its world, and above all the sweeping, wistful score from composer Rafa del Olmo, breaking down how its recurring melodies and shifting moods do so much of the heavy lifting in capturing that particular PS2-era magic.

Email the show at bgmaniapodcast@gmail.com with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff, & Mike.

EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS

1. Intro from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
2. Tick Town from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
3. Ezarus Forest I from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
4. Timeflux Channeler from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
5. The Wrath from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
6. The Great Library from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
7. Celestial Kingdom Battle from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
8. Father Gaoth -Boss III- from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
9. Goodbye Grampa from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
10. Stonetusk Canyon from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
11. Desert Of The Last Memory from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
12. Chronos Aeternum -Boss IV- from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
13. Despair I & II from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]
14. Tower Escape from Duskfade [Rafa del Olmo, 2026]

LINKS

• Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania
• Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu
• Facebook: BGManiaPodcast
• X: BGManiaPodcast
• Instagram: BGManiaPodcast
• TikTok: BGManiaPodcast
• YouTube: BGManiaPodcast
• Twitch: BGManiaPodcast

PODCAST NETWORK

• Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast
• Listening Religiously