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=== [[Adventure Game]] ===
* A large number of classic [[
** The [[Video Game Remake|Special Edition]] tried to recreate the effect with live instruments. They did a pretty good job, but the effects were much simplified in many cases.
** ''[[Star Wars: X-Wing]]'' and ''[[TIE Fighter]]'' used this too. Needless to say, when used in conjunction with elements of the Star Wars score, plus new music that blended with it, the effect was extremely enjoyable and atmospheric.
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* [[Sly Cooper]]
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'': The music continues playing when the game is paused but cuts out the main instruments, leaving a sort of "drum and bass" mix.
* ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'': When the player mounts a Yoshi, a track of bongo drums is added to the music, no matter which of the several background music tracks is playing at the time. The same thing happens in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.
* ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' has its water theme. Example : when you are on the beach in Jolly Roger Bay, the music is simple. If you go in the water, it gains violins; and the hidden cave add drums to it.
** Something similar happens to the themes of Hazy Maze Cave and Wet Dry World. Normally, it plays a remix of the SMB Cave Theme. However, once you're at a certain area, the theme starts adding a few creepy instruments.
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=== [[Role
* ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' uses two different applications of this trope. The overworld travel music acquires distinctive background instrumentation when the characters' ship flies over or near one of the several continents—tribal drums in the vicinity of the South America-derived continent, chimes in the area of the ice continent, etc. Additionally, certain boss battles can be accompanied by normal, triumphant, or desperate sounding themes depending on how the main characters are faring in the fight.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] IV: [[Oblivion]]'' has a soft fade-out transition to various musical themes whenever appropriate.
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** A particularly [[Nightmare Fuel]]ish example occurs when you make the final [[Leap of Faith]] from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgRPiUi4Rys prison morgue] to the Labyrinth in ''[[Silent Hill 2]]''. First there's the regular droning ambience, then it adds a groaning noise similar to a steam valve, then a horrible high-pitched siren-like sound (so bad you have to cover your ears, worse than the "radio squeal" in the first game).
** The [[Crowning Music of Awesome|series' best use of this trope]] has to be the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brbKPSCBuuc alleyway sequence] in the first game. First quiet ambience, then the air-raid sirens start up when it gets dark, then a loud scraping mechanical noise when you pass the gurney, then it adds an [[Ominous Pipe Organ]] when you see the blood and disemboweled corpses, and finally the percussion kicks in when you hit the end of the alley and get ambushed by the Gray Children.
* Nemesis's [[Leitmotif]] in ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' had a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TddpWDSK1g suspense version] when he's in the vicinity, and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6cLuqZTbfI&feature=related battle version] when he enters the room. There's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09hQUVgdLsQ a different battle theme variation] for him after he turns [[One-Winged Angel]], although it's still preceded by "Feel The Tense".
** ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' [[What Could Have Been|was originally going to have]] more dynamic music, according to videos of ''RE 1.5'', where the music seamlessly changed depending on the action and the player character's health.
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