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Hey apologies everyone. We'll get back on track this Wednesday.

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

I’ve been playing it for maybe 5 months- it’s pretty great, though I wish they had friends lists. Eventually I guess!

That's...aMazing... I'm so, so sorry.

WOW, I love reading these comments 15 years later!!! Perspective from 2018 to 2003: The acoustic guitar I used in this was a very cheap B.C. Rich acoustic guitar from the mid 90s that couldn't keep tune, had a weak neck and had .10 electric guitars strings on. It wasn't mine and at the time I had never played acoustic guitar! I mostly played Testament / Megadeth / Metallica / Tesla on electrics. That guitar sucked, intonation was super bad, anything above the 5th fret was sharp, so most of you got it right The reverb was dreadful, I think I used whatever Cakewalk had at the time and as Kaijin and Dale said, I sucked (still do?) at reverbs I suck at arranging, or at least, endings, fade outs suck and I agree! Surprisingly, the rhythm guitar part was cut in five parts while I did the entire melody/solo part in two takes. The whole idea while doing this song was playing it like it would've been played in an old 60s last slow in a club. (Glad so many of you caught that feeling!) I had no intentions of making this super tight or perfect. There is not one pitch bend in this whole song! There are portamento(i?), and TONS of them!!! - I slide from one note to the other with so much vibrato that even Alex Skolnick (My hero) would cringe! The midi part was not copy / pasted, those strings are so easy and rewarding to play. This guitar was mic'ed with an SM58 with ball off about 1.5ft away. (Cheapo 57) The SM58 was ran from a preamp that I built myself running off about 8 components on a 9v battery No fx processing, lol. I remade this song in 2012 but never bothered posting it anywhere. Ahhh, I miss those simple times!

It's fitting that MazeDude scored MazeQuest.

When you're a Muslim kid who's used to hearing that stuff at the mosque, it's weird hearing it in a fantasy video game.

Nintendo owns the melodies from Metroid. As such, the Metroid ReMixes Timaeus and I have done are more Nintendo's property than anyone else's. It's a derivative work from material we do not own the rights too, nor did we have permission to make. No matter how many unique ideas we stuff into it, the fact remains that we have little in the way of claim to the whole track. If Nintendo cared enough to strike an unauthorized arrangement down, they have every right to do so. I see it as no different than fanart, cosplay, or fanfiction. The poses and stuff might be different, but at the end of the day, someone else's imagination is responsible for its very existence and they do have legal power over it. Who wants the foundations of their legacy to be the work of someone else? I also see your point about derivative original music as apples to oranges. The original tunes rely on musical devices that have become cliche, while the arrangements directly take from an existing work. It's the difference between painting in the style of Bob Ross, or John Williams ripping romantic-era cliches, versus copying a drawing and making some changes along the way. Influence vs copy. If we want to sound like "cultured" art snobs, I'd side with those who'd say there is more artistic worth in the former, and historically, these are the works that have stood the test of time. So I don't have any problem with people who'd just rather remix if that's what they want to do, but isn't fulfilling for me anymore.

With NSF tracks 36, 22, and 1 woven into an ornate orchestral setting, each source's underlying emotions are amplified and respected. Transitions (both major and micro) are handled like expert surgery, and every instrument is measured via duration, support, and emotive response to not feel out of place. The result is a leisurely and adventurous quasi-narrative: the peace of a flower garden, swift samurai strife, and a homecoming rife with loss. The end feels full of questions the listener must answer on their own, concluding with a tone of "to be continued...?" Classic stuff. Mix delivers.