yeah i like the actual streams but i think the faces and titles (usually added after the stream) feel too much like 'playing the youtube game', it lends an air of insincerity to me. i wouldn't have even bothered to check the channel if that's how the thumbs/titles looked initially.
The Mother 3 soundtrack is 100% worth looking at. It's a lot more musical and less atmospheric. It's pretty amazing what they managed to do with the very limited GBA soundchip.
Absolutely. As much as I love the Earthbound soundtrack for how weird and memorable it is, I find the Mother 3 soundtrack more enjoyable as a whole to listen to outside the game
@@astr0sauce Hey, to each their own. I feel the exact opposite way. lol Earthbound definitely has more of a unique vibe though, I will say that. You hear some of the soundfonts they used and you immediately go "yup, that's earthbound, alright".
1's soundtrack is better than both 2 and 3's, despite being 8-bit. That being said 3 is not far behind, especially compared to 2. My opinion on the games is the same as the music.
Time Stamps (more in replies): 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:49 - The Evil Giygas Attacks! (Part 1) 00:01:27 - The Evil Giygas Attacks! (Part 2) 00:01:44 - Title Screen 00:01:58 - Opening Credits 00:03:31 - Choose a File 00:04:39 - Your Name Please 00:08:21 - Your Name Please (Noiseless) 00:10:15 - Now, Let's Go! 00:10:25 - One Fateful Night 00:11:15 - Unidentified Falling Object 00:11:30 - Rude Awakening 00:12:40 - Alien Invasion 1 00:14:02 - Alien Invasion 2 00:15:38 - Someone's Knocking on the Door 00:16:15 - What an Annoying Knock! 00:16:59 - Woah! 00:17:07 - Pokey 00:17:50 - A Good Buddy 00:18:00 - Buzz Buzz's Prophecy 00:19:38 - Onett Night 1 00:20:59 - Onett Night 2 00:22:33 - Onett Night 3 00:23:17 - Onett Buzz 00:23:29 - Otherworldly Foe 00:25:09 - Pokey's House 00:26:16 - Sunrise & Onett Theme 00:29:41 - Onett Theme 00:29:52 - What a Great Picture! 00:30:28 - Home Sweet Home 00:32:21 - Friendly Neighbors 00:33:41 - Buy Somethin' Will Ya! 00:35:25 - Enjoy Your Stay 00:36:01 - A Good Night's Rest 00:36:07 - Bed and Breakfast 00:36:41 - Hospital 00:39:03 - Oncoming Foe 00:39:09 - Ambush! 00:39:16 - Battle Against a Weak Opponent 00:40:19 - Battle Against a Weird Opponent 00:42:02 - Battle Against a Mobile Opponent 00:43:14 - You Win! 00:43:41 - That Was Easy! 00:43:52 - You Gained a Level! 00:44:39 - Franky 00:47:23 - Battle Against an Unsettling Opponent 00:50:14 - Dangerous Caves 00:51:24 - Sanctuary Guardian's Challenge 00:51:44 - Oncoming Boss 00:51:54 - Sanctuary Guardian 00:54:35 - A Bad Dream 00:55:57 - You Defeated the Boss! 00:56:07 - Welcome to Your Sanctuary 00:58:16 - A Flash of Memory 00:58:59 - Boy Meets Girl 01:01:29 - Apple Kid's Theme 01:02:39 - Ness' Bike 01:04:09 - Paula's Theme
Your Name Please is unironically one of my favorite video game tunes of all time, and it's _so_ underrated because it's literally just the character name screen, but it's just TOO catchy dude...
Fun fact: in the original Japanese version, Peaceful Rest Valley was the Grateful Dead Valley. The localizers were a bit more careful with potential legal issues and decided to change it.
The Mother 3 OST (Earthbound is Mother 2 in Japan) is probably even better, even if it’s held back by some really obvious and loud noise caused by compression so it could fit on the gameboy
Mother 3's soundtrack is awesome. Pretty much all the battle themes are in C minor, but they still manage to sound impressively distinct, and the quality for a GBA is INCREDIBLE.
@@Azure1013 There's a remaster on Youtbe of the soundtrack WITHOUT the GBA compression. It would be nice if people gave him that to use, when the time comes.
I'm glad I could be here for this stream, looking forward to part 2! Also, here's hoping a reaction to MOTHER 1/EarthBound Beginnings OST will happen sometime in the future!
Earthbound's OST is super funky, glad you're reacting to it! :D I remember hearing that both the game's music and setting had a lot of American inspiration, and I think you can definitely tell
I’ve played this game countless times and never thought about the fact that the composer must’ve come to work every day and had the time of his life working on this music 🤣
This was such a fun and chill time! When I clicked on the video I wasn't expecting almost 2 hours of vibes! This game means a lot to me and seeing someone who has such a unique perspective react and dissect the music is just so freaking cool; Even to someone like me who has absolutely no musical literacy it's all so interesting. Will definitely be sticking around for other videos.
I think Kirby soundtracks are really good as well, you'd probably like them! Honestly, Kirby's even more consistent than Sonic in terms of its soundtracks always being good!
I'd agree with that statement. And kirby boss music is usually really good. Crowned, Sullied Grace, Moonstruck blossom, Mind in a Machine, ext all good. xD
I wish he didn't talk over the chord progression for the Winning theme, because it's just so cool and unique and Debussy-esq. I don't think he noticed it.
Omg, at 00:44:39 when he starts to play his own thing alongside the song...And it meshes alongside it really well, you can tell he really IS the Best Guitar Coach.
@@triad5766 I know I know, I just found it fun to see him improvizing over an iconic blues progression like that. It's nothing spectacular, but I found it fun!
Buzz Buzz's Prophecy is for me, one of the most beautiful musical compositions I've ever heard. And I think a lot of its quality is down to the electronic medium in which it was played, the crude flowing vibrato, the "pixelly" quality to it, and the simplicity of the underlying melody, if you can call it that. Its perfect, no doubt in part due to the age I heard it at, but its just one of those pieces of music that have a profound effect you, I don't actively seek out listening to it, don't have it on heavy rotation in playlists (admittedly due to its obscurity and not having any versions on spotify) but when I do come across it, it brings me a smile and everything feels right in the world, if indeed a bit sad, I think a lot of Earthbound's best pieces have this quality, Your sanctuary/A flash of memory and Dr Andonauts Lab in particular, they are easing, comfortable, but melancholy, as if saying "you can rest now, but the world is still in peril and you will have to go out again and do what needs to be done..." the whole game is beautiful.
The SNES's sound hardware was (as far as I know) pure PCM, and could be used either for sample playback or wavetable synthesis. People can and did use recordings of real acoustic instruments in SNES music (see: music in this very game). However, given the limited storage, low fidelity and budget of most games they did use synthesized waveforms most of the time.
Patiently awaiting the day we get a Wind Waker OST reaction, I love those songs so much, especially the main theme that plays during the credits, 10 minutes of bliss imo.
I love Earthbound and its music! Watching you enjoy is a cool, but moreover, your comments on the music and sounds make me realize there was even more awesomeness in the OST! Great music became even better! THANKS!
If you enjoyed the Earthbound OST then I highly recommend checking the Lisa the Painful soundtrack, is an Earthbound-inspired game with a very unique music style.
Always like to see people hear this soundtrack for the first time. This is one of the most unique and eclectic music made for an SNES game and is one of my all time favorites.
@48:02 Clearly everyone forgot the scene in Back to the Future 2 where Marty McFly plays Johnny B Good, and Chuck Berry's cousin hears it and has him listen to it on the phone.
Some of the chat's suggestions for soundtracks to listen to were ones I would be absolutely ecstatic to see his reaction to, like the soundtracks for OFF, Sonic CD (specifically the Japanese/European version), The Binding of Isaac, and more...
One thing I gotta point out, this dude radiates positivity through body language and expressions when new tracks start. Put me in a better mood this morning!
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the _Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective_ soundtrack. It's composed by Masakazu Sugimori, who did the soundtrack of the original _Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney_ (which you already covered!) as well as several other classics.
Some tracks are great, but for the most part are very... how do i say this, 8-bit like? And for no reason too I mean, can't ask all DS music to sound like Advance Wars Days of Ruin, but you can't say that's high quality when you have things like the Mario&Luigi OSTs
@@rompevuevitos222 Yeah, it's pretty low res. It's such a crime, those songs would be something else with just a bit more fidelity. It's still worth a listen and analysis though.
Putting my bid in for Mother 3 as well. Lisa would be cool too eventually but Mother 3 is the more natural follow up here, and it's a great soundtrack too.
it's crazy how good this soundtrack sounds for something as technically limited as the SNES. absolutely love this game and its soundtrack I agree that you should hear the poor sequel to this game that was never localized called mother 3.
Yeah, I see lots of comments for Lisa the painful, and I agree with that one too. Honestly, a whole library of streams could be dedicated to the indies inspired by Earthbound. There are a lot, and there are definitely some gems.
I would love to see your reaction to the EVERHOOD soundtrack. I'm kinda shocked that it hasn't been requested more. It's a game like Undertale and Earthbould, but entirely revolves around the music. The combat literally involves you dodging the music notes of the battle theme.
I absolutely loved your reaction to Franky! You are correct! That song was definitely inspired from Johnny B Goode! Loved this game's ost for that very fact!
Nice to see you react to this. Earthbound is my favorite game of all time and it's ost is one of my favourites. It's really impressive what they manged to do with such limited hardware.
Gonna make some comments on this video as I get through it with timestamps 5:20 Keiichi Suzuki said in an interview once that Weather Report was a big influence on the soundtrack! 22:02 this whistling sound shows up in the soundtrack quite a bit. I have reason to believe Hip Tanaka might have used the same midi data and repeated it on multiple tracks, sometimes with different instruments
In a way I feel very attached to the music of Earthbound, it's catchy, and good, but I would love to see your reaction to the music of Mother 3, I feel like it's shocking and I love it more
whatever song starts at 44:15, i can hear a similarity in the looping sound in the back to the main theme of the arcade game Xevious. Can't tell if it's a coincidence or not since earthbound loves sampling from odd places.
Undertale was mainly inspired by this and Touhou and it really shines through well. Earthbound has such a good soundtrack, can’t wait for the Touhou 6 reaction
fun fact: a lot of the music in this game (mother 2) are remixes from mother 1 music. The sunrise theme is the opening measure from Polyanna (the main overworld theme from mother 1) the "buy somethin will ya" is a direct remix from the shop theme from mother 1 Snow Wood is a remaster of Snowman from mother 1 the sanctuary guardian battle theme is a heavily remixed version of the battle theme 02 from mother 1, even including the opening durge.
Just so you know, I have a video file showing a visual spectrograph of the entire earthbound OST, with x axis being real time, y axis being pitch, red being right and blue being left, while white is mono. My point is, some parts here look absolutely beautiful.
Bed and Breakfast's opening bar is lifted straight from "Good Morning" by The Beatles, I was surprised hearing it when listening through Sgt. Pepper's for the first time
Love seeing a lot of these that you've put out, especially games I hold very dear. Are you familiar with Chrono Trigger's OST already? The composer for that also helped put out an official Acid Jazz cover album (Named "The Brink of Time") for it and wonder if that would be something you'd look at or if that would be too risky in terms of copyright. And if you're not familiar with Chrono Trigger's OST as it is, that one is also just absolutely fantastic, haha Edit: Having finished off the VOD on this now, you picked basically the PERFECT time to choose to break and finish off later thematically. The next to final song you listened to plays over what is effectively the "Halfway through the game" recap and interlude.
I watched this live as I wrote the paper for my Technical Writing class. I learned a new song from watching this (Let's Go Crazy by Prince) which is great. It's one of those songs I heard when I was very little but never knew the name of until now
1:02:30 - Enjoy the bike while you can, if you manage to use it before the game stops letting you use it anymore. Yeah, the bike becomes permanently unusable about 20 to 30 minutes after you get it.
I get slightly annoyed when people say "it sounds like undertale" where do you think Toby got his inspiration from he literally cites the Mother series but people retroactively say Earthbound sounds like Undertale it is just kind of annoying.
He's comparing it to what he knows, man. Get annoyed all you want, but control yourself please. It's nothing to get angry over, and I say this as a hardcore UT and EB fan.
A note about the SNES sound chip. One thing that set the SNES apart from contemporary consoles is it's musical capabilities. Many other consoles had chips like the SID, with a limited number of channels with dedicated waveforms per channel. The SNES on the other hand is capable of real-time FM synthesis. The spc700 chip is its own small microprocessor which runs independent from the main CPU and allows the music programmers to write their own music format and run an interpreter for that format on the spc700 itself. It's quite an interesting system, and gave the SNES some very powerful music synthesis capabilities. Hell, it could even play back digitized speech at reasonably high quality.
I feel embarrassed that chat was all saying "Master Belch easiest fight in the game!". When I first beat this game when I was 11-ish, I didn't make the connection between Belch and the Fly Honey and kept challenging him and losing. I power-leveled with the Fobbies (Foppies? I forget which one they were) with Paula spamming PSI Fire Beta, thinking I wasn't strong enough, until I got PSI Flash B (I forget if Ness or Paula gets it). Oddly enough, the auto-kill effect on Flash works on Belch, even without the Fly Honey. Needless to say, for a WHILE afterward, I powered through the game because I was so grossly over-leveled. Also spent the rest of the game not knowing what I was supposed to do with that Jar of Fly Honey and I think it just sat useless in my inventory for a LONG time.
had a very similar experience too with master belch Although I wasn't very lucky with getting the flash kill, that "aha!" moment came to me muuuuuuch much later when I was messing with escargo express when I remembered i had the jar to begin with the cluelessness I've had with playing this game is something i honestly hold dearly.
These thumbnail faces are *way* too much imo, like it looks forced and uncanny to me
He's being a goofball. Plus, I think his smile looks nice, but that's my opinion.
Agreed
yeah i like the actual streams but i think the faces and titles (usually added after the stream) feel too much like 'playing the youtube game', it lends an air of insincerity to me. i wouldn't have even bothered to check the channel if that's how the thumbs/titles looked initially.
@@YARGGG_GG I don't mind trying to make appealing thumbnails, but these look just plain disturbing to me
think that’s the point
The Mother 3 soundtrack is 100% worth looking at. It's a lot more musical and less atmospheric. It's pretty amazing what they managed to do with the very limited GBA soundchip.
Absolutely. As much as I love the Earthbound soundtrack for how weird and memorable it is, I find the Mother 3 soundtrack more enjoyable as a whole to listen to outside the game
@@astr0sauce Hey, to each their own. I feel the exact opposite way. lol
Earthbound definitely has more of a unique vibe though, I will say that. You hear some of the soundfonts they used and you immediately go "yup, that's earthbound, alright".
I'm already so happy he's listening to earthbound if he ever listens to mother 3 I'd be so incredibly happy oh man
True!
1's soundtrack is better than both 2 and 3's, despite being 8-bit. That being said 3 is not far behind, especially compared to 2. My opinion on the games is the same as the music.
Time Stamps (more in replies):
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:49 - The Evil Giygas Attacks! (Part 1)
00:01:27 - The Evil Giygas Attacks! (Part 2)
00:01:44 - Title Screen
00:01:58 - Opening Credits
00:03:31 - Choose a File
00:04:39 - Your Name Please
00:08:21 - Your Name Please (Noiseless)
00:10:15 - Now, Let's Go!
00:10:25 - One Fateful Night
00:11:15 - Unidentified Falling Object
00:11:30 - Rude Awakening
00:12:40 - Alien Invasion 1
00:14:02 - Alien Invasion 2
00:15:38 - Someone's Knocking on the Door
00:16:15 - What an Annoying Knock!
00:16:59 - Woah!
00:17:07 - Pokey
00:17:50 - A Good Buddy
00:18:00 - Buzz Buzz's Prophecy
00:19:38 - Onett Night 1
00:20:59 - Onett Night 2
00:22:33 - Onett Night 3
00:23:17 - Onett Buzz
00:23:29 - Otherworldly Foe
00:25:09 - Pokey's House
00:26:16 - Sunrise & Onett Theme
00:29:41 - Onett Theme
00:29:52 - What a Great Picture!
00:30:28 - Home Sweet Home
00:32:21 - Friendly Neighbors
00:33:41 - Buy Somethin' Will Ya!
00:35:25 - Enjoy Your Stay
00:36:01 - A Good Night's Rest
00:36:07 - Bed and Breakfast
00:36:41 - Hospital
00:39:03 - Oncoming Foe
00:39:09 - Ambush!
00:39:16 - Battle Against a Weak Opponent
00:40:19 - Battle Against a Weird Opponent
00:42:02 - Battle Against a Mobile Opponent
00:43:14 - You Win!
00:43:41 - That Was Easy!
00:43:52 - You Gained a Level!
00:44:39 - Franky
00:47:23 - Battle Against an Unsettling Opponent
00:50:14 - Dangerous Caves
00:51:24 - Sanctuary Guardian's Challenge
00:51:44 - Oncoming Boss
00:51:54 - Sanctuary Guardian
00:54:35 - A Bad Dream
00:55:57 - You Defeated the Boss!
00:56:07 - Welcome to Your Sanctuary
00:58:16 - A Flash of Memory
00:58:59 - Boy Meets Girl
01:01:29 - Apple Kid's Theme
01:02:39 - Ness' Bike
01:04:09 - Paula's Theme
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Good luck friend 🫡
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Okay, Mother 3's OST _has_ to be a given at this point.
You _gotta_ give it a listen!
Music is even incorporated into GAMEPLAY in that one!
Shogo Sakai is a legend..
51:54 No need to thank me 🎧🔥🔥
Regardless, tysm I was looking for this one moment
Wait
What
I will still thank you.
what
how
His reaction was perfect
Your Name Please is unironically one of my favorite video game tunes of all time, and it's _so_ underrated because it's literally just the character name screen, but it's just TOO catchy dude...
YES!!! Such a good song and weirdly enough, I like the noisefull version more. The strange noises just add to the weirdness and jazzyness of the song.
I AGREE! 10/10 character screen, I like the music, I like the noises, honestly a 10/10.
The little tune that plays at the minute mark is one of the nicest sounding things I’ve ever heard
Those bass fills are just disgustingly funky
Fun fact: in the original Japanese version, Peaceful Rest Valley was the Grateful Dead Valley. The localizers were a bit more careful with potential legal issues and decided to change it.
Woah that's super cool! Thank you for sharing
The Mother 3 OST (Earthbound is Mother 2 in Japan) is probably even better, even if it’s held back by some really obvious and loud noise caused by compression so it could fit on the gameboy
Mother 3's soundtrack is awesome. Pretty much all the battle themes are in C minor, but they still manage to sound impressively distinct, and the quality for a GBA is INCREDIBLE.
This guy'd have a stroke when hearing Strong one (Masked man)
@@heckincat1406 I can’t wait... 😈
@@Azure1013 poor soul he'll be..
@@Azure1013 There's a remaster on Youtbe of the soundtrack WITHOUT the GBA compression. It would be nice if people gave him that to use, when the time comes.
Fun fact: Itoi based Giygas after the time he accidentally walked into a theater and saw Murder Scene in a movie as a kid
The movie is called "The Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty" if anyone wants to see it.
Before this, I had NEVER realized that the name selection music's noise sound was a snippet from Monty Python's intro theme. That blew my mind.
I'm glad I could be here for this stream, looking forward to part 2! Also, here's hoping a reaction to MOTHER 1/EarthBound Beginnings OST will happen sometime in the future!
i highly recommend mother 3 ost now, its the Japanese exclusive sequel to earthbound and has an even better soundtrack
Facts
It’s gonna be a 4 parter reaction 😭😭😭
I hope the N64 versions OST leaks one day
Earthbound soundtrack is better
@@12bangagree
Love how you rocked "Franky"! First time viewer, but it seemed like you were totally in your element haha
Earthbound's OST is super funky, glad you're reacting to it! :D
I remember hearing that both the game's music and setting had a lot of American inspiration, and I think you can definitely tell
I have told TH-cam to not show me this video 5 times, and it keeps coming back, like a sleep paralysis demon haunting me.
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I like how everyone in chat started spamming "What?" and "How?" as soon as this part came on
Man, I love the internet somtimes lol
*image zooms out with black border*
So awesome to hear you react to this, one of my all time favorites!! Thanks Dan!
This one was for you! Enjoy.
@@MusicTheoryforGamers ❤️ Sadly had an exam during the stream but will totally be there for next week!! Can’t wait!
Interesting fact for you. Earthbound used 1/3 of the 24 megabytes of storage on the soundtrack.
I’ve played this game countless times and never thought about the fact that the composer must’ve come to work every day and had the time of his life working on this music 🤣
This was such a fun and chill time! When I clicked on the video I wasn't expecting almost 2 hours of vibes! This game means a lot to me and seeing someone who has such a unique perspective react and dissect the music is just so freaking cool; Even to someone like me who has absolutely no musical literacy it's all so interesting. Will definitely be sticking around for other videos.
He does have a unique perspective. Most people aren't arrogant enough to label themselves and everything they do "the best".
@@Gankstomper Did he say that, sounds based.
That is the scariest thumbnail I have ever seen in my entire life
I had a visceral reaction when you started singing “I Gotta Feeling” at the beginning of Boy Meets Girl.
I think Kirby soundtracks are really good as well, you'd probably like them! Honestly, Kirby's even more consistent than Sonic in terms of its soundtracks always being good!
That would be a great idea.
I'd agree with that statement. And kirby boss music is usually really good. Crowned, Sullied Grace, Moonstruck blossom, Mind in a Machine, ext all good. xD
kirby honestly has some of my favorite game themes out of anything I've played even now. there's just something about it that really clicks with me.
I love Kirby music, but Sonic is far more consistent in terms of music, I mean I don't listen to Kirby's OSTs as often as I do Sonic
The "WOW" we can hear at 10:17 can also be heard in the song BIG SHOT from deltarune !
Many don't know this, but instruments are actually a reference to the hit song "BIG SHOT" from the popular game Deltarune chapter 2
Common misconception.
Many don't know this, @@TainoMoya, but Lightning McQueen is _actually_ a _car._
Yup, Toby has used the Earthbound soundfont in tons of his music
In “The Evil Giygas Attacks! (Part 1)” you can hear the intro to Megalo Strike Back/I love you
Also guys tons of people don’t know this but the Russian people speak Russian.
I wish he didn't talk over the chord progression for the Winning theme, because it's just so cool and unique and Debussy-esq. I don't think he noticed it.
Omg, at 00:44:39 when he starts to play his own thing alongside the song...And it meshes alongside it really well, you can tell he really IS the Best Guitar Coach.
it's cool but he's probably heard the song it's inspired by, Johnny Be Good
It’s just a standard blues progression so it makes sense he’d be able to improvise over it. Any intermediate guitarist would be able to
@@triad5766 I know I know, I just found it fun to see him improvizing over an iconic blues progression like that.
It's nothing spectacular, but I found it fun!
Buzz Buzz's Prophecy is for me, one of the most beautiful musical compositions I've ever heard. And I think a lot of its quality is down to the electronic medium in which it was played, the crude flowing vibrato, the "pixelly" quality to it, and the simplicity of the underlying melody, if you can call it that. Its perfect, no doubt in part due to the age I heard it at, but its just one of those pieces of music that have a profound effect you, I don't actively seek out listening to it, don't have it on heavy rotation in playlists (admittedly due to its obscurity and not having any versions on spotify) but when I do come across it, it brings me a smile and everything feels right in the world, if indeed a bit sad, I think a lot of Earthbound's best pieces have this quality, Your sanctuary/A flash of memory and Dr Andonauts Lab in particular, they are easing, comfortable, but melancholy, as if saying "you can rest now, but the world is still in peril and you will have to go out again and do what needs to be done..." the whole game is beautiful.
We even Get carried away with nostalgia too
As someone who encountered it in my late teens, I remember thinking it was beautiful the moment I heard it
Wow that last description in quotes really does describe a lot of earthbound
This was a joy to hear someone's reaction to one of my favourite game soundtracks of all time. Can't wait for part 2!
You just made my whole week, finding out that guys like you do these!
The SNES's sound hardware was (as far as I know) pure PCM, and could be used either for sample playback or wavetable synthesis. People can and did use recordings of real acoustic instruments in SNES music (see: music in this very game). However, given the limited storage, low fidelity and budget of most games they did use synthesized waveforms most of the time.
Oh, that's interesting! ^^ Thanks for the info!
you’d never guess that the music titled Franky was a battle theme for a gang boss that swings knives at a little kid.
Patiently awaiting the day we get a Wind Waker OST reaction, I love those songs so much, especially the main theme that plays during the credits, 10 minutes of bliss imo.
The main theme for wind waker is a masterpiece.
The question is whether to use the remake's music or the original's
I love Earthbound and its music! Watching you enjoy is a cool, but moreover, your comments on the music and sounds make me realize there was even more awesomeness in the OST! Great music became even better! THANKS!
If you enjoyed the Earthbound OST then I highly recommend checking the Lisa the Painful soundtrack, is an Earthbound-inspired game with a very unique music style.
Unique indeed, it’s got some genuine bangers, songs so weird you can’t help but laugh, and terrifying things too.
@@zackozga2411 Exactly, like Highway King.
Always like to see people hear this soundtrack for the first time. This is one of the most unique and eclectic music made for an SNES game and is one of my all time favorites.
Woohoo im playing this game rn and the OST is amazing, im glad you reacted to it‼️
@48:02
Clearly everyone forgot the scene in Back to the Future 2 where Marty McFly plays Johnny B Good, and Chuck Berry's cousin hears it and has him listen to it on the phone.
Some of the chat's suggestions for soundtracks to listen to were ones I would be absolutely ecstatic to see his reaction to, like the soundtracks for OFF, Sonic CD (specifically the Japanese/European version), The Binding of Isaac, and more...
holy sht, can't wait to see his reaction on OFF ost
One thing I gotta point out, this dude radiates positivity through body language and expressions when new tracks start.
Put me in a better mood this morning!
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the _Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective_ soundtrack. It's composed by Masakazu Sugimori, who did the soundtrack of the original _Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney_ (which you already covered!) as well as several other classics.
Some tracks are great, but for the most part are very... how do i say this, 8-bit like? And for no reason too
I mean, can't ask all DS music to sound like Advance Wars Days of Ruin, but you can't say that's high quality when you have things like the Mario&Luigi OSTs
@@rompevuevitos222 Yeah, it's pretty low res. It's such a crime, those songs would be something else with just a bit more fidelity. It's still worth a listen and analysis though.
Putting my bid in for Mother 3 as well. Lisa would be cool too eventually but Mother 3 is the more natural follow up here, and it's a great soundtrack too.
44:59 he totally rocked Frank's theme
So much of this soundtrack is absolutely brilliant in how stuff cross-references. The whistling and bongos are used all over the place.
I'm amazed that you can pick out all the notes and play it back after just a couple loops! Sick ear my man, love your reacts!
58:59
I hate but also love how his first reaction to this song was black eyed peas
it's crazy how good this soundtrack sounds for something as technically limited as the SNES.
absolutely love this game and its soundtrack
I agree that you should hear the poor sequel to this game that was never localized called mother 3.
I've been learning recently that limitations are actually extremely inspiring. When you have too many options it's so easy to get lost.
Yeah, I see lots of comments for Lisa the painful, and I agree with that one too. Honestly, a whole library of streams could be dedicated to the indies inspired by Earthbound. There are a lot, and there are definitely some gems.
I would love to see your reaction to the EVERHOOD soundtrack. I'm kinda shocked that it hasn't been requested more. It's a game like Undertale and Earthbould, but entirely revolves around the music. The combat literally involves you dodging the music notes of the battle theme.
Most people voting just want an excuse to talk about their game, they usually don't necessarily care about the OST
Everhood is stellar, I hope that gets noticed along with No Straight Roads, both feature similar " Enemies attack to the music" gameplay
I absolutely loved your reaction to Franky! You are correct! That song was definitely inspired from Johnny B Goode! Loved this game's ost for that very fact!
Nice to see you react to this. Earthbound is my favorite game of all time and it's ost is one of my favourites. It's really impressive what they manged to do with such limited hardware.
23:30 Otherworldy Foe is one of my favorite themes of all time, I love this reaction lol
"Mildly Bizarre is a good descriptor." Buddy, you have NO IDEA.
So glad I discovered this channel. The past couple days have been filled with gamin nostalgia thanks to you. About to fire up the old emulator
One step closer to Mother 3... It's so good!
Gonna make some comments on this video as I get through it with timestamps
5:20 Keiichi Suzuki said in an interview once that Weather Report was a big influence on the soundtrack!
22:02 this whistling sound shows up in the soundtrack quite a bit. I have reason to believe Hip Tanaka might have used the same midi data and repeated it on multiple tracks, sometimes with different instruments
I think the Mother (Japanese name for the series) vocal album is pretty good too and worth a listen for anyone that likes Earthbound's music.
omg i hope he does mother 3 next
i love earthbound music but mother 3 sounds more like . music
Earthbound is so artistic i cant help but adore it
Mother 3 may be objectively better but idk maybe im biased with earthbound
52:14 is when you tell everyone to get up to dance, and your phone starts standing up 😂
In a way I feel very attached to the music of Earthbound, it's catchy, and good, but I would love to see your reaction to the music of Mother 3, I feel like it's shocking and I love it more
He's gonna love the binding of isaac.
1:33:49 I believe the song you’re thinking of is “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who… from the same album!
MOTHER THREE love this soundtrack so much
For some reason there's not a lot of comments like this , but great analysis! Very enjoyable to watch and also very infromative!
whatever song starts at 44:15, i can hear a similarity in the looping sound in the back to the main theme of the arcade game Xevious. Can't tell if it's a coincidence or not since earthbound loves sampling from odd places.
Definitely on purpose, it plays in an arcade
Arcade theme
Bro that smile is infectious thx for the video :)
Undertale was mainly inspired by this and Touhou and it really shines through well. Earthbound has such a good soundtrack, can’t wait for the Touhou 6 reaction
21:45 - Onett Night song reminds me alot of Brian Eno 's "Ambient 4 - On Land"
Some of the best bass face I've ever seen. Great video man 😄
I love how disturbed he looks in most of these while reading chat 😂😂😂😂
fun fact: a lot of the music in this game (mother 2) are remixes from mother 1 music.
The sunrise theme is the opening measure from Polyanna (the main overworld theme from mother 1)
the "buy somethin will ya" is a direct remix from the shop theme from mother 1
Snow Wood is a remaster of Snowman from mother 1
the sanctuary guardian battle theme is a heavily remixed version of the battle theme 02 from mother 1, even including the opening durge.
"Buy Something, Will Ya" is basically an arrangement of Dallas Rag.
Just so you know, I have a video file showing a visual spectrograph of the entire earthbound OST, with x axis being real time, y axis being pitch, red being right and blue being left, while white is mono. My point is, some parts here look absolutely beautiful.
The look on his face when Sanctuary Guardian kicks in. Absolutely priceless.
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He brought up the Undertale reference as though it weren't trying to quote Earthbound to begin with. Smh....
thumbnail is the next fnaf character
One of the best soundtracks in gaming history.
Bed and Breakfast's opening bar is lifted straight from "Good Morning" by The Beatles, I was surprised hearing it when listening through Sgt. Pepper's for the first time
This is definitely one of the videos on TH-cam.
I like how his reaction to many of these is the same reaction we had when we heard some of these for the first time.
If you saw the runaway five in the game you'd notice they're literally just the blues brothers. and their music is all just that.
that thumbnail has to be the scariest thing ive seen all day
Love seeing a lot of these that you've put out, especially games I hold very dear.
Are you familiar with Chrono Trigger's OST already? The composer for that also helped put out an official Acid Jazz cover album (Named "The Brink of Time") for it and wonder if that would be something you'd look at or if that would be too risky in terms of copyright.
And if you're not familiar with Chrono Trigger's OST as it is, that one is also just absolutely fantastic, haha
Edit: Having finished off the VOD on this now, you picked basically the PERFECT time to choose to break and finish off later thematically. The next to final song you listened to plays over what is effectively the "Halfway through the game" recap and interlude.
I watched this live as I wrote the paper for my Technical Writing class. I learned a new song from watching this (Let's Go Crazy by Prince) which is great. It's one of those songs I heard when I was very little but never knew the name of until now
I love your expressions so much, dude
1:02:30 - Enjoy the bike while you can, if you manage to use it before the game stops letting you use it anymore. Yeah, the bike becomes permanently unusable about 20 to 30 minutes after you get it.
Everybody else leaves at the end of the game so you can use it then
@@aaaaaaaaaa828 Yeah, but you have to give up listening to the great music that only plays during the ending.
Ngl, when I’m scrolling and your face suddenly appears- I get mildly terrified for a half-second.
this man have a nicest smile ever
I love this game soundtrack, it sounds so unique and quirky they’re not many like it.
I love the amount of stank face. Thats how you know when something is real jazzy
I get slightly annoyed when people say "it sounds like undertale" where do you think Toby got his inspiration from he literally cites the Mother series but people retroactively say Earthbound sounds like Undertale it is just kind of annoying.
he listened to the undertale soundtrack first so he's just comparing it to what he knows
He's comparing it to what he knows, man. Get annoyed all you want, but control yourself please. It's nothing to get angry over, and I say this as a hardcore UT and EB fan.
Listening to Mother 3's OST will make you a smarter, nicer, and more attracting person.
A note about the SNES sound chip. One thing that set the SNES apart from contemporary consoles is it's musical capabilities. Many other consoles had chips like the SID, with a limited number of channels with dedicated waveforms per channel. The SNES on the other hand is capable of real-time FM synthesis. The spc700 chip is its own small microprocessor which runs independent from the main CPU and allows the music programmers to write their own music format and run an interpreter for that format on the spc700 itself. It's quite an interesting system, and gave the SNES some very powerful music synthesis capabilities. Hell, it could even play back digitized speech at reasonably high quality.
so what ive got from this video is that elden ring is a quirky earthbound inspired indie game
Love it! Hope we also get Mother 3 :D
The earthbound/mother 2 soundtrack touches me in ways I can't explain
Outer wilds, zelda and earthbound is all i need
Toby Fox must have been also inspired by the Mother 3 soundtrack, considering how influential Mother 3 was to Undertale theme-wise.
Ready for him to hear “Pokey Means Business”
Putting the chat replay would be amazing for the TH-cam videos
I feel embarrassed that chat was all saying "Master Belch easiest fight in the game!". When I first beat this game when I was 11-ish, I didn't make the connection between Belch and the Fly Honey and kept challenging him and losing. I power-leveled with the Fobbies (Foppies? I forget which one they were) with Paula spamming PSI Fire Beta, thinking I wasn't strong enough, until I got PSI Flash B (I forget if Ness or Paula gets it). Oddly enough, the auto-kill effect on Flash works on Belch, even without the Fly Honey.
Needless to say, for a WHILE afterward, I powered through the game because I was so grossly over-leveled. Also spent the rest of the game not knowing what I was supposed to do with that Jar of Fly Honey and I think it just sat useless in my inventory for a LONG time.
had a very similar experience too with master belch
Although I wasn't very lucky with getting the flash kill, that "aha!" moment came to me muuuuuuch much later when I was messing with escargo express when I remembered i had the jar to begin with
the cluelessness I've had with playing this game is something i honestly hold dearly.