Spakku

Mono's right; it's certainly missing something, it is background music. I hadn't noticed when listening to it put to your video, since that basically made background music the expectation. You could write an original lead melody but, not being a musically inclined person, I can't imagine what that would sound like. Lyrics could help, but it'd be hard to pull off without sounding really cheesy, and even then it'd only sound good in the 2nd and 3rd iterations. You could weave in another source throughout, but I can't think of one that's compatible. But there's no way I can think of to bring this inherently background-y source forward without adding something new beyond the arrangement.

This song should totally end with this. In addition to what's been suggested by everyone else.

I'm just calling it what he did. And it is the least awesome of the Super Metroid Boss music.

Of all the boss themes you had to pick from. Seriously? "Plant Boss"?

I think you stabbed the melody over and over in the face. You gotta work on that.

Disappointingly low-impact after that heaping pile of constantly building intro.

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be off for effect.

I listened to this again on mid-quality speakers as opposed to low-quality headphones and now the percussion is pure sub-woofer and everything but the guitar is like twice as quiet. I must say it loses some appeal.

I think I heard a saxophone in the update...

The choir sounds happy, the lead sounds happy, the drums sound like a march. This is anything but "harmless danger"; these "corpses" are actively seeking you out, optimistic about their chances and far from helpless. Don't get me wrong, I love this thing. But you totally missed the mark you were aiming for. I encourage you to run with it if you're not too in love with your concept. And, to K.B., this song isn't about what you feel. This song is from the perspective of the presence which it represents.

You can't just loop it to match the original, it needs a beginning and ending (none of this repeat and fade bullshit) as well as some variation while it repeats itself. It's nice background music, but that's all it is. I do like the arrangement for the most part. Particularly the lead instrument, whatever that may be.

About the first half is new as far as I can figure. I'm not against adding some original tunes, but it's kind of too much all at once like that. (On the bright side, it sounds like Batman Returns.) It got a bit chaotic during the little fluttery segment, the pipe organ seems a bit unsuitable for a straight copy from the original tune. The ending was all right, but there should be a way cleaner transition from the source tune to the ending than mashing down all the keys at once.

Yeah, better samples would do a world of good. Sounds like an old PS1 game.

I thought the "bang" was pretty awesome, myself. My biggest complaint is that you left the same chiptune BGM that sounds copied directly from the game. It's cool when the intro uses specks of it amongst the other instruments but once you get into the meat of the song you should replace the chip sound entirely. You just need something stronger than cute little beeps. Also, some percussion would be nice.

I can hear the sad, easy. I'm not getting any scariness anywhere, though.

I'm impressed by the way you were able to kick the original tone quite accurately in the testicles and come out with something this good.

I should hope you mean deprivation. Sleep depravity would be a horrible condition. Which is to say I've got nothing constructive to add.

I thought you meant Skull Kid's theme from Majora's Mask, most people would call this Saria's Song or the Lost Woods theme. Pretty much what Prog said for everything. Listen to 'im.

The first minute was good. All dreamy and stuff. Once you change the piano in the last 30 secs into circus music the whole thing goes to hell.

Being somebody who has never even attempted to be more involved in music than playing the tenor saxophone in middle school, a lot of my suggestions are going to be pretty crappy. I pretty much just say what comes to mind while trying to sound remotely confident. Take everything I suggest with a few buckets of salt.

I was referring to a different statue, but listening to the track louder you seem to have had that all along, just way quieter than the fan that was on in the other room. My bad. The bells are cool, though. I'm cool with it being heroic but I don't love the execution. I think you're trying to do triumphant, but it comes off as tragic. Maybe it's the samples. It doesn't sound remotely heroic until the brass comes in. This adds what feels like an unnecessary transition, since your choir doesn't seem to do much of anything besides follow the progression of the source. What I'm proposing is that you emphasize it. By adding more excitement to the choir bit, it could represent a sudden real threat after the nervous solitude of the intro and then the heroic tune would come in as a response. If this is what you meant to do, then you need to go farther with it and beat us over the head with emotion.

I'm guessing the choir popping in was supposed to be jarring, but you transitioned to smoothly through the choir to the music bit to be effective. It kicked up a notch real suddenly, sure, but it's still pretty quiet and calm for a good while after the fact. It escalates again, but by then you're expecting it. Once the melody kicks in, the track loses all of the awesome nervous tension from the intro. It sounds kind of almost heroic for a sec then drops into ambient bass-line. It's almost like you just wrote the intro and outtro and skipped the middle. Your first minute is cool and moody but I couldn't help but wish it had the boss statue room theme quietly in the background. Sorry if that was harsh.

The heart-beep being used as an instrument is fucking gold. I'm pretty sure we died, actually. Birds would be kind of inappropriate.

Seriously, get the filesize and bitrate down. It WILL be rejected unless you conform to the standards.

It's kind of annoying how it builds in tension and then doesn't go anywhere with. It keeps teasing that its going to explode into something mind-blowing 'til 1:17 and then it just slinks away. My advice: let it step up like it seems to want to.