Drachefly

I have Cave Story - Overdrive in my head at the moment.

Does using a cell phone count? http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00872/

In addition to what was said above, which I entirely agree with, this also reminds me of The Eternal Doctrine remix of the Kohr-Ah theme from Star Control 2 (not an OC remix). I just can't see using this as a lullaby.

Oddly enough, the first few moments reminded me of Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, Reonciliation, just after the beginning of the solo. Not only similar chords, but similar mood.

Well, is it really that he's unpredictable or that he's susceptible to mind control?

Solid. This has completely displaced the original track in my head. One little irony here is that your ARE alone at this point. It's like a reminder, "Hey, don't forget to go rescue Curly when you're done here. And yes, you'll have to step up your game a lot." Edited to add: now I can't get this out of my head... and that's fine by me. Edited to add on Feb 6: STILL in my head. Slightly less welcome by now, but holding up pretty well.

yeah, the basic battle music is the weakest part of that game. However, I do think it's fairly emblematic. Cartoony.

Getting through hell and up to form 3 of Ballos. About a third of Ninja Gaiden. Getting a party to the second world of Final Fantasy 5 without going past level 7.

I put on all of the EB remixes and when we got to this one, my wife asked, "Are you SURE this game is a good one for kids?" I pointed out that the lyrics weren't in the game. The imperfections in the piano fit the scene, but we could definitely do without them. They're not integral like in Calming The Angry Seas.

Sweet. I love complex stuff (Pharoah Land is still my most-played), and this fits. It's all over the place. And expressive, too. When I want to play an OCR where my parents can hear, this is the go-to number. And for some reason I can't figure out, it segues very well into Escape Routes (OCR1513), which is very different.

This is one of my favorites. Starts simple and sweet, nostalgic. 1:14 added a nice bit of complexity... then 1:24... ! Through 1:40 you get a takeover and wonder what's going on... 2:02 the original chords pierce through and you notice how much it evolved to get to 1:30 And then... I get the chills.

Final Fantasy 6 got me a few times. The end of Earthbound, even though I knew that the 'you might not survive even if you win' plan would of course not work out that way, I entered that battlefield with blurred vision. Oh, and passing Poo's test for the first time. Chrono Trigger, when I fixed up Robo after he'd worked himself to near-destruction saving the forest. And losing Lucca's mom because I didn't figure the puzzle out. In FF9, Freya's meeting Sir Fratley and his completely forgetting her might have, I don't remember. I remember feeling bad about it, anyway. I trust we're not talking tears of frustration, are we? In that case, most nintendo-hard games I really seriously tried.

Yeah. The game is fun in two cases: 1) exploring / enjoying the jokes or 2) you are trying to do it as well as you possibly can. Otherwise it's meh. I peaked when I got enough evidence to demonstrate that the louvre is rigged, which led to someone else cracking it completely. A spade is me.

Take a listen to , and in particular the bit starting with 13:20-14:20 (unfortunately this performance doesn't bring out the freaky low string sounds early on).It just feels like there's room to do something here. Unfortunately, you might need to be Jean Sibelius to figure it out. Is there some other theme that could complement it? Something that could go in the foreground with this in the background?

Kingdom of Loathing. A girl I knew from college recommended it to me twice before I gave it a shot. Soon I've got 45 permed skills and a complete set of brimstone gear and Hodgman's imaginary hamster, etc. Aside from that, I generally give things - games included - a chance first. No hipster I.

Whoa, now... slow down. This seems to me like it's intended to be some guy sitting on the back of a dolphin strumming idly on a guitar. If it were clean, it wouldn't be the same piece of music. It'd be like hiring a world-class boychoir (e.g. American, Vienna) to sing the end of , or dubbing over the actors in the singing episode of Buffy.As for the ending, well, he just saw a squid that needed whacking, so he put the guitar down.

The vast and cold reaches of space - the cold of Jupiter's million degree magnetic belt. Million degrees doesn't feel so hot when it's so thin you can't easily distinguish it from vacuum. But there's something there. Something drifting, but alive, thinking, communicating. We close in and see its insides, a miniature city bustling with life, a million complex decisions each second, urgent, fateful, each made on the backdrop of the same mechanical heartbeat. We pass it and lose it for a moment as we slew our scope around to watch it as it recedes. As we lose the signal, we shift our attention elsewhere. ~~~~ I used to be an author on the short-lived Infinity On 30 Credits a Day collaborative webcomic project, and once I heard this I immediately linked the two. This is Dazer and Jake weaving the Infinity through the race's hazards and past their opponents. This is a high-energy plasma torch rocket making carefully planned but eventually improvised maneuvers, with a specific goal in mind but basically for the sheer joy of doing it. ~~~~ Some above have complained about the repetitive background. I just factor it out, let it set the mood, and focus on what's changing. The multiple time-scales of the tune, the slower synth background, the ambient space sounds, and the beat mesh perfectly for me. The flipping out section just seals the deal.

The samples don't really make such a difference here, except for the grating… thing… at 0:38. The simple samples just serve to give it a retro feel, which complements its bouncy and cheerful side. When I got to a stage with this theme in Gauntlet, this is what I heard in my head. This really interpreted it - made a new way of hearing the original, which is a good thing.

Exhilarating, jubilant… yet the job is not quite done. More ass needs to be kicked. The variety of ways this is expressed is quite amazing. It maintains that mood throughout, but does so in so many ways it doesn't get at all repetitive. This is my second-most-listened-to track, and I do not restrict that to remixes.

I like how busy this feels. For me, even the pauses work, in a peculiar way. It's a bit like playing a game of red light green light. Gotcha! The unexpectedly long sustain at 2:25 works the same way. I don't get the problems people have with the ending. Explosion, then echoes of the opening. Oh well.