I have a deeper appreciation for Harmony of Dissonance's music. Apparently the team sacrificed quality sounding music for better graphics and that led to the music sounding really distorted and more like a Game Boy game than a GBA one. But weirdly enough, this fuzz and grittiness to the soundtrack adds a likely unintentional layer of dread to every song. It makes the atmosphere feel really heavy to me, like there's something much darker going on and I really like that. I don't know, man, it really just kind of hits for me.
flavio gjoni Circle of the Moon, Portrait, and Dawn had good starting themes as well imo. Ecclesia has a great soundtrack but I don't think the starting theme is up to par with any of the others though.
Gorlokk I thought both Prologue and An Empty Tome were great, in particular the second one but maybe not as good as the others. About on par with Portrait.
PeyserConley X nice one hahaha. Same with me dude. It's breathtaking how good music was with old games. Musicians like these must've been geniuses. Castlevania, Pokemon, Final fantasy and a few others.
Cannot be happier, he returned. Would love to see him in his Harmony of Dissonance era for the series. To know Lydie and Maxim's fate... well, that hurt.
No reason for them doing that other than to ruin poor Juste's life. Can't understand why Lydie couldn't be Juste's wife living far away in England or something.
@@javiervasquez625 If I had to guess, they were trying to paint a parallel of Richter's to show him what NOT to do - just simply give up & accept evil after the death of a loved one.
@@g0lddustt29 Pretty random "reason" by making arguably the most underrated Belmont in the series getting wasted like that in order to deliver a "character arc" for Richter. It's like if Powerhouse and Netflix were going full edgy with this characters with completley apathy towards their personal lives to tell an edgy and over the top story... not liking where this is going for poor Juste.
@@javiervasquez625 Eh, I'd say Christopher qualifies more for that role than Juste. I do wish Maxim and Lydie survived though, I'd have liked to see them make appearances. Hell maybe they still will, imagine how hype it would be if we all thought they were dead, then old man Maxim shows up tossing shurikens to save his buddy's hide.
I'll never understand why people despise this game. Sure, it's a bit too easy, it lacks many "new" gameplay elements, and has a confusing dual-castle gimmick, but the two castles are well-designed, the spritework makes this look like an early DS game, and the music is spectacular, even if the instrumentation is a bit on the retro side. It's easily my favorite of the GBA trilogy.
Abusing the magic system was one of the most fun things to do in this game. People hate it because of the patchy quality it has (graphics look too blocky, music is too chiptune), but Harmony of Dissonance is more about the sum of its parts than having individual notable qualities.
I think that Dissonance is one of the more fancy Castlevanias. The Shakespearean music, the designs of the characters, the art. It just screams "I'm a play!"
Rake Dos It was just really confusing... I couldn't continue past Luminous Caverns B until I defeated the Minotaur in Top Floor B, but that was confusing, and I was stuck for a few years when I never played it.
I played this early in the 2000's where even if it was a bad game, I still played it for hours on end because one, I was a little kid that didn't care that much, and two, there was nothing else to play since my parents were poor. Most of my games like this one were given to me by my cousin.
This game certainly has some "what the fuck do I do now" moments, but honestly that made it very memorable for me, especially doing Hard Mode immediately after.
And so Juste Belmont, grandson of Simon Belmont, heads into the castle with Maxim Kischine to search for their friend Lydie, and to destroy Dracula and his remains...
the composer of this music is, Michiru Yamame, and this music is heavily classical with many part heavily effected by Bach fugue. Michiru Yamame, for me as a composer just after Bach, after her there are Chopin, Bethoven, etc, but first Bach then Michiru Yamame.
Haroon Rancak Nice, interesting comparisons. You can definitely hear them within in this track. Amazing that artists from centuries ago still influence the sounds of today. Long live music!
The vast majority of HoD was not composed by Yamane, but by Soshiro Hokkai, who also did some AoS tracks. in HoD, Yamane was only responsible for two obscure tracks that play at very specific times (I forget where, boss rushes?), and the Simon Boss Rush remix of Vampire Killer.
the reason why the music sounds Famicom-y is due to low memory most of the memory was used to enemy data, castle layout and enviroment, which took up too much space the rest of sprites was as done in lower quality and the music had to use the short, retro sounding OST
Ghoul's B¡z4rre Corporation Off-topic (maybe), but I love how Juste's after-images change colour if you have certain cloaks equipped. Alucard's capes only changed their transparency.
Hey man, I actually speedrun this game! If you'd like to check it out, mind checking out my channel? It's a super broken run with Maxim, and right now I'm learning Juste haha!
@@Jnort707 Putting a GBA game on a big screen, plugging in a USB gamepad, and leaning back somewhere comfortable, is a pretty good way to play. I played the GBA Castlevanias like crazy on my GBA SP and DS, I had a great time, and it was just as fun on an emulator years later.
Playing this in my mind has gotten me through life or death situations before. It just exudes FEARLESSNESS... And that mode of thought is very crucial when it's crunch time.
Through its melancholy, this track embodies the curse of being a Belmont. The family is condemned, so to speak, to live and die fighting evil. They are no different than the whip each of them carry; they are only an instrument of destruction, very much like Dracula, which makes the Belmont clan having no real choice over its own fate.
Leon commited his bloodline to forever fight Dracula across the centuries out of _penance_ for his actions in Lament of Innocence been partly responsible for the Count's creation so it's not in anyway a condemnation of his descendants's happiness anymore than a burden out of responsibility for his mistake in allowing Mathias to become a vampire in his emotional outburst against God and Humanity following his loss of faith. None of the Belmonts have ever "died fighting evil" as each one of them managed to live long and enjoyable lives past their confrontation with Dracula. The Belmonts fight Dracula out of duty and commitment to Leon's values of honor and chivalry which is why they all follow in their ancestor's oat to forever hunt the night until Leon's sins are finally cleansed with Dracula's final defeat (1999 Demon Castle War).
I would actually rank this at the bottom of the 3 GBA titles, personally, but I still had a lot of fun with this title and don’t really have too many bad things to say about it. All three games have perfect “first stage” music though.
@@Jhony6436 i mean, the anime isn't a failure. If it was, they probably wouldn't be doing another season. Also, i know some few people that got into Castlevania by the anime. It's complicated to compare a single player game (With an "old" fanbase) to a game with an online multiplayer that involves a lot of money transaction, but at least we have a lot of Castlevania games and inspired ones to have fun with. Hope you got my point.
lords of shadow killed it n konami as well supporting that trash. iga partially as well since he was into it... but to make into a castlevania was terrible decision. should have been its own separate IP. we miss the old cv n metroidvanias. the anime fandom of castlevania is split. i say its good exposure for new fans and could be good to revive the series again. the classic series. since a new season is coming n based around the highly iconic popular sotn n rondo.
I mean, you can still play any of the 20+ titles Castlevania launched, when an server in an online game is closed it can literally impossible to play the game forevermore.
Seriously this song is beautiful. It's so sad and grim, it truly feels as if we're in a real cursed castle! Of course I love the more usual approach in the series when it comes to the first area's music, i.e. more epic and catchy I guess, but I love how different this entrance song is. And not only this song, I really enjoy the whole mood of this game. Funny thing, I feel this whole Castlevania entry as if it would have a more Soul Reaver kind of approach, in terms of mood and atmosphere (And I can't tell you enough how much I love Soul Reaver!!!).
Yo tengo muchos recuerdos con mi GameBoy advance viajando en el metro de la ciudad y el transporte público jugando este título sin parar y sin temor a ser asaltado . Mi única preocupación era tener baterías y que hubiera luz ambiental buena
One of the best belmonts, the fact that he can dash and use magic just like his ancestors from the belnadas clan, juste is amazing one of my fav belmonts fasho
This is one of my favorite first stages in Castlevania, not just the music. The context of Maxim and Juste together at the beginning, followed by that giant armour chase before this song starts just makes this song that much more powerful imo
That's part of it's charm, because it really brings you back to the great games of old to the series. I always like games that add nostalgic values like this.
I find it the most atmospheric Castlevania game. Castlevania games aren't really scary or very creepy, but Harmony of Dissonance is the first Castlevania game that made me felt unease or atleast a little creeped out.
I've taken the time to extract the MIDI and play it back with the original soundfonts on PC, which removes some of the fuzz and grittiness (muddiness) that comes with playing it through the GBA. It sounds "cleaner", but the original game sounds much better. There's no doubt that the music was composed for the limitations of the instruments, you can tell by how percussive the tonal "instruments" are, which is very common for soundtracks on the NES and similar consoles. But... I think this music was also composed based on the limitations of the GBA sound hardware itself, which results in the muddiness of everything coming together. When you remove that muddiness, it loses a lot of cohesiveness/mixing of the sounds. Most game soundtracks for the GBA suffer for low-quality sound fonts. As an example, the Sonic Advance series has incredible music, but would sound better with higher quality samples. This 'chiptune' style of music really uses the instruments as best they can given the limitations on the GBA. Additionally, these compositions are musically incredible (ex: take a look at some of these pieces transposed to piano) and honestly no other game that I'm aware of has come close to trying to do what they've done with this soundtrack.
It's like the Sega Genesis, there is a raw grit that when removed, removes what made it unique in the first place. I wish there were more console manufacturers today even though a lot of tech is shared between all the big consoles now, it would still be fun to see which console pushes for the top in which spot. Now SNES on the other hand. I've recently been replaying the DKC trilogy and found the remasters of those soundtracks phenomenal!
HOD needs a remaster honestly. This game is an underated gem. I also wish we had an official remastering of Successor Of Fate.. Also I know I'm being selfish for saying this, but I feel like they should have also included Successor Of Fate somewhere in the Smash Bros music library because we would have been closer to having every single Belmont theme throughout the main timeline games. (I mean even "Nathan Drake's theme" (Awake) was added in).
esse castle ai é bem fraco comparado aos outros de gba e DS mas mesmo assim é um puta jogo e só essa música q é boa na soundtrack o restos é um negocio gótico meio ruim
No reason for them to do that like seriously couldn't they have Lydie be Richter's grandmother who's living in England or something safely away from any danger? Like Powerhouse just decided it fair to make Juste's life miserable for _no reason_ whatsoever.
This is probably my favorite castlevania after curse of darkness, it feels so magical and powerful and music is awesome, juste is a super baddass Belmont simply love the art of this game and how dark it is compared to aria
@@apollojustice5338 I meant starring as in being the main character. You can play as Richter in SotN and PoR, but he's not the canon protagonist. Julius Mode is a bonus setting like Richter Mode in those games, or Maxim in HoD.
I liked this one most of the portable titles, because it was simple but incredibly fun. The other ones where much more complex but also not as tight as this one.
It seems that this game used the GB/GBC sound channels for the music so that the GBA sampled sound channels were available for the sfx. Not many GBA games bothered using the GB/GBC sound channels, so that's kinda neat.
i think aria of sorrow is not that much better than this game. to be fair tho as a kid i had the double cartridge that had both of these on it and i think i opened this game first and was like "wtf is this retro bs, is this game from 1999 or what" but after i finished aria of sorrow i tried it out and liked it just as much.
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Juste. The only Belmont that can *FORWARD DASH* .
that's debatable
And what about Richter? Not only that, but he can do it in the air.
@@antonio.3432 Is a special move. The Forward dash of Juste is a normal move.
@@antonio.3432 Richter is a whole new level, he was so bored that he ressurected Dracula just for having fun...amazing
Horey shet!
I have a deeper appreciation for Harmony of Dissonance's music.
Apparently the team sacrificed quality sounding music for better graphics and that led to the music sounding really distorted and more like a Game Boy game than a GBA one.
But weirdly enough, this fuzz and grittiness to the soundtrack adds a likely unintentional layer of dread to every song. It makes the atmosphere feel really heavy to me, like there's something much darker going on and I really like that.
I don't know, man, it really just kind of hits for me.
Agreed my guy, couldn't have said it better myself
same
same
I totally agree, unintentional dissonance in their harmonies... I love it
@@-dunn5305 How do you know that was unintentional... the game title is Harmony of DISSONANCE.
Unwritten rule of Castlevania:
First area and clock tower music are always amazing.
With the exception of wood carving partita from symphony of the night which was later in the game.
I agree on Clock Tower. Aria, Harmony and Symphony had good starting themes.
flavio gjoni Circle of the Moon, Portrait, and Dawn had good starting themes as well imo. Ecclesia has a great soundtrack but I don't think the starting theme is up to par with any of the others though.
Gorlokk I thought both Prologue and An Empty Tome were great, in particular the second one but maybe not as good as the others. About on par with Portrait.
***** Yes, I disagree with that too. I don't like them nearly as much as the Entrance themes.
*Dashing intensifies*
Castlevania: Harmony of Dash
"Harmony of Dissonance's soundtrack is terrible"
This song: "Am I a joke to you?"
Also Chapel of Dissonance, which is probably my favorite track in any Castlevania game
The songs themselves are fantastic, the quality Is horrible
This song sounds like a weird inbetween of gameboy and gba with some nes added and I sorta dig it
The Otaku Guy It sounds like Shovel Knight...I LOVE SHOVEL KNIGHT!
@@atbtrendy9932 The quality is fantastic. Using simple waveforms is an aesthetic choice and it works great here.
There are Castlevania songs that grow on me gradually the more I keep playing. This is not one of them, I just fell in love with it immediately.
Successor of Fate is one of the best "you have entered the castle" themes in the entire series, right up there with Theme of Simon and Dracula Castle.
Agreed. =)
I liked the melody immediately but my like for the song had to grow to overcome my dislike for the gameboy quality sound
PeyserConley X nice one hahaha. Same with me dude. It's breathtaking how good music was with old games. Musicians like these must've been geniuses. Castlevania, Pokemon, Final fantasy and a few others.
@@Despatche and Vampire Killer theme as well and bloody tears
Overlooked OST from an overlooked gem.
^
I think Christopher Belmont's theme "Battle of the Holy" is even more overlooked... 😭😭
Vetuyasha sad but true 😭
Juste belmont.
Cannot be happier, he returned. Would love to see him in his Harmony of Dissonance era for the series. To know Lydie and Maxim's fate... well, that hurt.
I had to pause it for 5 minutes to catch my breath. Absolute legend.
No reason for them doing that other than to ruin poor Juste's life. Can't understand why Lydie couldn't be Juste's wife living far away in England or something.
@@javiervasquez625 If I had to guess, they were trying to paint a parallel of Richter's to show him what NOT to do - just simply give up & accept evil after the death of a loved one.
@@g0lddustt29 Pretty random "reason" by making arguably the most underrated Belmont in the series getting wasted like that in order to deliver a "character arc" for Richter. It's like if Powerhouse and Netflix were going full edgy with this characters with completley apathy towards their personal lives to tell an edgy and over the top story... not liking where this is going for poor Juste.
@@javiervasquez625 Eh, I'd say Christopher qualifies more for that role than Juste. I do wish Maxim and Lydie survived though, I'd have liked to see them make appearances. Hell maybe they still will, imagine how hype it would be if we all thought they were dead, then old man Maxim shows up tossing shurikens to save his buddy's hide.
I'll never understand why people despise this game. Sure, it's a bit too easy, it lacks many "new" gameplay elements, and has a confusing dual-castle gimmick, but the two castles are well-designed, the spritework makes this look like an early DS game, and the music is spectacular, even if the instrumentation is a bit on the retro side. It's easily my favorite of the GBA trilogy.
Well said.
Abusing the magic system was one of the most fun things to do in this game. People hate it because of the patchy quality it has (graphics look too blocky, music is too chiptune), but Harmony of Dissonance is more about the sum of its parts than having individual notable qualities.
The atmosphere is absolutely haunting in this title. Along with the OST that is very bold, this game is unique among the IGAvanias. I like it a lot.
This was amazing, never met someone who disliked it
@@nimboss I agree. The graphics and music have an almost crude quality to them, but it still makes a very good presentation with them.
God, those jazzy ass chords get me every time.
*whipping intensifies*
I think that Dissonance is one of the more fancy Castlevanias. The Shakespearean music, the designs of the characters, the art. It just screams "I'm a play!"
The most underrated Belmont.
False
@@harrycepeda4660 right christopher is more underrated
@@zero-one2585 He almost got 3 games, for me is Sonia.
He got a very cool coat
This is, in my opinion, the best track on the Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance - soundtrack.
Agree with you Double! We both are characters of Dark Secrets aren't we?
People may call this a poor title in the series, but I actually liked playing through it (when I figured out what to do...)
Me too. I find it well done especially for a GBA game.
Rake Dos It was just really confusing... I couldn't continue past Luminous Caverns B until I defeated the Minotaur in Top Floor B, but that was confusing, and I was stuck for a few years when I never played it.
I played this early in the 2000's where even if it was a bad game, I still played it for hours on end because one, I was a little kid that didn't care that much, and two, there was nothing else to play since my parents were poor. Most of my games like this one were given to me by my cousin.
I know that felling too. Except I borrowed my (well the stores) GBA game from Game Stop.
This game certainly has some "what the fuck do I do now" moments, but honestly that made it very memorable for me, especially doing Hard Mode immediately after.
And so Juste Belmont, grandson of Simon Belmont, heads into the castle with Maxim Kischine to search for their friend Lydie, and to destroy Dracula and his remains...
even though the music in this game sounds outdated, i think its because of the retro sound that this song is so catchy.
I think it's more to do with the main melody of the song being so good.
the composer of this music is, Michiru Yamame, and this music is heavily classical with many part heavily effected by Bach fugue. Michiru Yamame, for me as a composer just after Bach, after her there are Chopin, Bethoven, etc, but first Bach then Michiru Yamame.
Haroon Rancak Nice, interesting comparisons. You can definitely hear them within in this track. Amazing that artists from centuries ago still influence the sounds of today. Long live music!
The vast majority of HoD was not composed by Yamane, but by Soshiro Hokkai, who also did some AoS tracks. in HoD, Yamane was only responsible for two obscure tracks that play at very specific times (I forget where, boss rushes?), and the Simon Boss Rush remix of Vampire Killer.
the reason why the music sounds Famicom-y is due to low memory
most of the memory was used to enemy data, castle layout and enviroment, which took up too much space
the rest of sprites was as done in lower quality and the music had to use the short, retro sounding OST
This song clearly says "Hurry up, time passes quick and there are many things to do."
...Collecting furniture included?
+Marcello Silva sure :)
Ghoul's B¡z4rre Corporation Off-topic (maybe), but I love how Juste's after-images change colour if you have certain cloaks equipped. Alucard's capes only changed their transparency.
@@marcellosilva9286really? 😲
I miss this game. This is probably my favorite GB game ever.
Get yourself an gba emulator, and re-live those days man.
buy a 3ds and hack it
with the new 3ds you can play old games and ps1 games
we are gods with this console
Hey man, I actually speedrun this game! If you'd like to check it out, mind checking out my channel? It's a super broken run with Maxim, and right now I'm learning Juste haha!
metroid fusion
@@Jnort707 Putting a GBA game on a big screen, plugging in a USB gamepad, and leaning back somewhere comfortable, is a pretty good way to play.
I played the GBA Castlevanias like crazy on my GBA SP and DS, I had a great time, and it was just as fun on an emulator years later.
Playing this in my mind has gotten me through life or death situations before. It just exudes FEARLESSNESS... And that mode of thought is very crucial when it's crunch time.
Of all the songs to be included in Ultimate, this one not being among them probably hurts the most... :(
Soooooooooooo good. I love this song. One of my favorites from the franchise
Through its melancholy, this track embodies the curse of being a Belmont. The family is condemned, so to speak, to live and die fighting evil. They are no different than the whip each of them carry; they are only an instrument of destruction, very much like Dracula, which makes the Belmont clan having no real choice over its own fate.
Leon commited his bloodline to forever fight Dracula across the centuries out of _penance_ for his actions in Lament of Innocence been partly responsible for the Count's creation so it's not in anyway a condemnation of his descendants's happiness anymore than a burden out of responsibility for his mistake in allowing Mathias to become a vampire in his emotional outburst against God and Humanity following his loss of faith. None of the Belmonts have ever "died fighting evil" as each one of them managed to live long and enjoyable lives past their confrontation with Dracula. The Belmonts fight Dracula out of duty and commitment to Leon's values of honor and chivalry which is why they all follow in their ancestor's oat to forever hunt the night until Leon's sins are finally cleansed with Dracula's final defeat (1999 Demon Castle War).
My favorite of the GBA versions. Yes, I like it better than "Aria of Sorrow" or "Circle of the Moon".
Me too.
I liked dashing. I didn't like the plot: it was too simple.
I would actually rank this at the bottom of the 3 GBA titles, personally, but I still had a lot of fun with this title and don’t really have too many bad things to say about it. All three games have perfect “first stage” music though.
@TouchyBanana Did you mean the magic seals?
I need to play circle of the moon
Imagine if castlevania was still going, when people call things like overwatch and fortnite dead they don’t get the pain of a truly dead series
@@Jhony6436 i mean, the anime isn't a failure. If it was, they probably wouldn't be doing another season. Also, i know some few people that got into Castlevania by the anime. It's complicated to compare a single player game (With an "old" fanbase) to a game with an online multiplayer that involves a lot of money transaction, but at least we have a lot of Castlevania games and inspired ones to have fun with. Hope you got my point.
lords of shadow killed it n konami as well supporting that trash. iga partially as well since he was into it... but to make into a castlevania
was terrible decision. should have been its own separate IP.
we miss the old cv n metroidvanias. the anime fandom of castlevania is split. i say its good exposure for new fans and could be good to
revive the series again. the classic series. since a new season is coming n based around the highly iconic popular sotn n rondo.
I mean, you can still play any of the 20+ titles Castlevania launched, when an server in an online game is closed it can literally impossible to play the game forevermore.
One of my favorite games. One of my favorite themes.
Y'all are still sleeping on this track right smack dab in 2020
Seriously this song is beautiful. It's so sad and grim, it truly feels as if we're in a real cursed castle!
Of course I love the more usual approach in the series when it comes to the first area's music, i.e. more epic and catchy I guess, but I love how different this entrance song is.
And not only this song, I really enjoy the whole mood of this game. Funny thing, I feel this whole Castlevania entry as if it would have a more Soul Reaver kind of approach, in terms of mood and atmosphere (And I can't tell you enough how much I love Soul Reaver!!!).
This song IS epic tho
@@dennisdeez123 Yeah, a different kind of 'epicness' I guess :)
Always nice to see Soul Reaver mentioned in unexpected places. Love that game, and I agree with you that this game gives a similar vibe.
I really like this
This has become my second favorite castlevania, underrated IMO. Music is phenomenal
This game is awesome with the recolor, is like playing a mini symphony of the night.
good lord did I abuse that two-way dash
The music in this game was something else.
i kinda miss this entrance song beacuse it reiminds me of my teenager life......
i love it
All white haired protagonist in castlevania are cool sl. We got juste, soma, and hector.
You forgot Alucard ;-;
fahim chowdhury You forgot Alucard, the most recognized....
+Alfonso ST
...And the most badass!
Whitechvpel Gaming no love for Nathan
Alucard is blonde haired actually xD
The classic 'first part of the castle theme is a slap'.
cuando escucho esta medolia me recuerda cuando jugaba en mi game boy en mi casa y en la calle lloviendo
+nazzareth garcia muñoz Jajaja que recuerdos :D
Yo tengo muchos recuerdos con mi GameBoy advance viajando en el metro de la ciudad y el transporte público jugando este título sin parar y sin temor a ser asaltado . Mi única preocupación era tener baterías y que hubiera luz ambiental buena
One of the best belmonts, the fact that he can dash and use magic just like his ancestors from the belnadas clan, juste is amazing one of my fav belmonts fasho
The Belmonts before & after Juste want to stick to Traditions.
Who’s here after Nocturne 💯
MY BOY MADE IT INTO THE ANIME!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of my favorite first stages in Castlevania, not just the music. The context of Maxim and Juste together at the beginning, followed by that giant armour chase before this song starts just makes this song that much more powerful imo
that shit slaps
That's part of it's charm, because it really brings you back to the great games of old to the series. I always like games that add nostalgic values like this.
BEST VIDEOGAME SONG EVER
I find it the most atmospheric Castlevania game.
Castlevania games aren't really scary or very creepy, but Harmony of Dissonance is the first Castlevania game that made me felt unease or atleast a little creeped out.
this game visuals and soundtrack together make a creepy and unique experience, one of the most memorable soundtracks ever imo
I've taken the time to extract the MIDI and play it back with the original soundfonts on PC, which removes some of the fuzz and grittiness (muddiness) that comes with playing it through the GBA. It sounds "cleaner", but the original game sounds much better. There's no doubt that the music was composed for the limitations of the instruments, you can tell by how percussive the tonal "instruments" are, which is very common for soundtracks on the NES and similar consoles. But... I think this music was also composed based on the limitations of the GBA sound hardware itself, which results in the muddiness of everything coming together. When you remove that muddiness, it loses a lot of cohesiveness/mixing of the sounds.
Most game soundtracks for the GBA suffer for low-quality sound fonts. As an example, the Sonic Advance series has incredible music, but would sound better with higher quality samples. This 'chiptune' style of music really uses the instruments as best they can given the limitations on the GBA. Additionally, these compositions are musically incredible (ex: take a look at some of these pieces transposed to piano) and honestly no other game that I'm aware of has come close to trying to do what they've done with this soundtrack.
It's like the Sega Genesis, there is a raw grit that when removed, removes what made it unique in the first place. I wish there were more console manufacturers today even though a lot of tech is shared between all the big consoles now, it would still be fun to see which console pushes for the top in which spot.
Now SNES on the other hand. I've recently been replaying the DKC trilogy and found the remasters of those soundtracks phenomenal!
HOD needs a remaster honestly. This game is an underated gem. I also wish we had an official remastering of Successor Of Fate..
Also I know I'm being selfish for saying this, but I feel like they should have also included Successor Of Fate somewhere in the Smash Bros music library because we would have been closer to having every single Belmont theme throughout the main timeline games. (I mean even "Nathan Drake's theme" (Awake) was added in).
* Nathan Graves
thank you for thiss
This might just be the best Castlevania song ever!
Cara como eu AMO essa música!!! me arrepia, me engrandece, me faz sentir bem! cara!!
Na verdade
esse castle ai é bem fraco comparado aos outros de gba e DS mas mesmo assim é um puta jogo
e só essa música q é boa na soundtrack
o restos é um negocio gótico meio ruim
@@september64 Pra mim todas as musicas do harmony são boas
muito mano é boa demais essa música
This entire soundtrack is underrated
My favourite track in this whole game!
I'm just happy he appeared, even if it's the worst ending posible in the game I don't care, I just wanted to see Juste again
No reason for them to do that like seriously couldn't they have Lydie be Richter's grandmother who's living in England or something safely away from any danger? Like Powerhouse just decided it fair to make Juste's life miserable for _no reason_ whatsoever.
Back when I played this, I would just stand around in the opening area for minutes at a time in awe at this theme.
The start of that track has always been the best to me. I like the entire OST but I really like the first track the most.
I downloaded a GBA emulator on my phone AND this game only for listen this amazong music while DESTROYING R BUTTON
Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance, the Castlevania that gave me a headache when I streamed it
This was my favorite ost hands down
The most underrated Castlevania game possibly my favorite in the series along with Dracula x
This game deserves a remake
Used to not want to move to the next area because I loved listent to this so much
This song is just CRYING for an insaneintherainmusic arrangement. just listen to it!!!
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MATERPIECE
Soshiro Hokkai is the composer of this masterpiece :)
@@MaskedGuyCh thank you
My favourite song of the game, thanks for the upload! :3
I better hear this remixed in the next Smash game.
All GBA Castlevania games have kickass music. This just emphasizes that FACT! Agreement in thumbs up, btw.
been calling glory holes the 'succ of fate' for years now
"The Sound of Madness"
Its a very good game and the OST is awesome
i love this song!!! OMG
My favorite! Thanks for uploading this.
Im gonna say this right now, I prefer this and Aria of Sorrow over the DS Games.
One of my favorite entries into the series personally, mainly because it was the first metroidvania I've ever played
Amazing theme
I had to come back to listen to this gem after some spoiler I witnessed yesterday. 😊
melhor tema pra castlevania n tem como
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My favorite castlevania
Of the GBA era, honestly, this is the only song I can remember.
Honestly, this is a Game Boy music
Juste Belmont and Soma Cruz...those 2 guys are badass.
This should be in Smash Ultimate :(
Juste and Maxim should be in SSB. Melee.
Anyone here after the Nintendo Direct?
2 dislikes could be Dracula and Death
Edit: now 8
Dracula's Wraith and his organs disliked
Classic
damn we need anoher game with Juste.
This is probably my favorite castlevania after curse of darkness, it feels so magical and powerful and music is awesome, juste is a super baddass Belmont simply love the art of this game and how dark it is compared to aria
Well it was one of the first Castlevania games I ever played and the first one I actually completed.
Best GBA Castlevania!
Thank you very much!
Juste: the only Belmont to... star in a Metroidvania?? That can't be right...
Julius Belmont. Nuff said.
@@apollojustice5338 I meant starring as in being the main character. You can play as Richter in SotN and PoR, but he's not the canon protagonist. Julius Mode is a bonus setting like Richter Mode in those games, or Maxim in HoD.
This game is overshadowed by aria of sorrow, its actually a very good castlevania game.
HES BAAAAAAAAAACK
My childhood 😁❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I liked this one most of the portable titles, because it was simple but incredibly fun. The other ones where much more complex but also not as tight as this one.
It seems that this game used the GB/GBC sound channels for the music so that the GBA sampled sound channels were available for the sfx. Not many GBA games bothered using the GB/GBC sound channels, so that's kinda neat.
Mother 3 also does this in one of the battle themes, but I can’t remember which one.
Love this!!!
i think aria of sorrow is not that much better than this game. to be fair tho as a kid i had the double cartridge that had both of these on it and i think i opened this game first and was like "wtf is this retro bs, is this game from 1999 or what" but after i finished aria of sorrow i tried it out and liked it just as much.
Castlevania Nocturne spoilers:
HE RETURNS!
This is the area in which I would rarely ever dash, even if I'm backtracking to find items in repetition.
Am i the only one who prefers the OST this way (with the Gameboy soundchip)?
Nah. I like the 8 bit sounds alot. Wish they would bring it back.
Harmony of Dissonance is my favorite soundtrack of the GBA trio gameboy soundchip and all tbh
The game is actually wrongfully underrated.