Starts off great, but I think it deviates from the original too much. The original is already a remix of Contra's jungle music, this goes so far it isn't even recognizable as Contra music.
Contra 4 has two themes for Jungle level: 1) Normal/easy mode and that's not a remix of original theme from Contra 1 but new theme made from scratch. This is a cover for that version. 2) Hard mode and that one is actually remix of original theme from Contra 1. SnappleMan band did a cover for it as well and that cover is called "Get to the choppa"... so they also did a reference for Predator movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger :)
@@Olagfigh Late reply, but I knew that. I actually personally prefer the new jungle theme from Contra 4 over the original, but I still think this cover goes a bit too far with how different it is.
@@100organicfreshmemes5 *Very* late reply, but: I actually really like this cover, and come back to it every now and then (obviously), but I will give you this: SnappleMan is part of the old guard of guitarists that used to frequent OCR, and if you listen to those OG OCR guitarist's work, it all tends to have the same problem. They seemed to show up to make a cover of a video game song, did that *extremely* well for about a minute, then fell in love with playing their own solos and spent the rest of the song doing that, forgetting what they were _supposed_ to be doing. IMO, this cover spends a lot less time doing that, and the solos mesh better with the source, which is why I don't have a problem with it. *BUT* That's why my playlist for OCR's old Project Chaos album has so many newer songs substituted in. It's like: you're a great guitarist, but I didn't come to listen to a minute of a Sandopolis Zone cover, then 2 minutes of your solo that has nothing to do with it and doesn't properly mix with it (that was BrainCells' actually, but he's also featured on this album). The old guard just couldn't help themselves. ...and if SnappleMan sees this...sorry to snipe at you from years in the future. It is what it is. _I'm_ not a musician. It's not like I can do better.
Actually, the entire cover is a tribute to the original version of the song called "Vile Red Falcon", which was released in the album FX2 by Jake Kaufman/Virt before he composed for Contra 4. The segment from 1:55 to 2:32 incorporated elements from a Top Gun-styled song called "Bogey at your 6" from the same exact album.
This is one of, if not the ultimate VG arrange that exists. This album is CHRIST
Starts off great, but I think it deviates from the original too much. The original is already a remix of Contra's jungle music, this goes so far it isn't even recognizable as Contra music.
Contra 4 has two themes for Jungle level:
1) Normal/easy mode and that's not a remix of original theme from Contra 1 but new theme made from scratch. This is a cover for that version.
2) Hard mode and that one is actually remix of original theme from Contra 1. SnappleMan band did a cover for it as well and that cover is called "Get to the choppa"... so they also did a reference for Predator movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger :)
@@Olagfigh Late reply, but I knew that. I actually personally prefer the new jungle theme from Contra 4 over the original, but I still think this cover goes a bit too far with how different it is.
@@100organicfreshmemes5 *Very* late reply, but:
I actually really like this cover, and come back to it every now and then (obviously), but I will give you this: SnappleMan is part of the old guard of guitarists that used to frequent OCR, and if you listen to those OG OCR guitarist's work, it all tends to have the same problem. They seemed to show up to make a cover of a video game song, did that *extremely* well for about a minute, then fell in love with playing their own solos and spent the rest of the song doing that, forgetting what they were _supposed_ to be doing. IMO, this cover spends a lot less time doing that, and the solos mesh better with the source, which is why I don't have a problem with it.
*BUT*
That's why my playlist for OCR's old Project Chaos album has so many newer songs substituted in. It's like: you're a great guitarist, but I didn't come to listen to a minute of a Sandopolis Zone cover, then 2 minutes of your solo that has nothing to do with it and doesn't properly mix with it (that was BrainCells' actually, but he's also featured on this album). The old guard just couldn't help themselves.
...and if SnappleMan sees this...sorry to snipe at you from years in the future. It is what it is. _I'm_ not a musician. It's not like I can do better.
Actually, the entire cover is a tribute to the original version of the song called "Vile Red Falcon", which was released in the album FX2 by Jake Kaufman/Virt before he composed for Contra 4. The segment from 1:55 to 2:32 incorporated elements from a Top Gun-styled song called "Bogey at your 6" from the same exact album.