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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- This is the my cover of the Dwelling of Doom theme from Castlevania 2 - Simon's Quest on the NES .
This was super tricky technically (I should have expected that part really) and the execution is quite fast. In addition there's a harmony that needs to be tight behind the lead so I had to do quite a lot of practicing in order to get it right ... which took the most part of a week to nail down, leaving things quite late for recording and editing. AAaaaaand I decided, late, to add the accordion and bagpipes late in the editing process which didn't help with my schedule... but it was worth the effort , I'm pretty happy with the end result and this certainly a fun challenge.
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When did you first play Castlevania 2 and what was your first impression of it ?
When I was 9 I swapped some game for Trojan; the kid had that and Simon's Quest...then the guy came back 20 minutes later and took Trojan and left me with Simon's Quest for 2 months...I really liked it! But I made my mates and I try and beat it for 20 years without walkthroughs...waste of time :D Your cover is absolutely brilliant, man. Thanks!
I remember the night I bought this. I hounded my dad to take me to buy it on a Friday night. I put up $30 of my own money, and he paid the rest. We picked it up from Wal-Mart.
I really liked it at first. The atmosphere and music were great, and I really liked the Action-RPG gameplay style. I was a huge rpg fan.
It didn't take long to become stuck though, and remember becoming really frustrated. Especially how the npc hints/dialogue didn't seem to apply to the actual in game scenario. Once I got my hands on the Nintendo power, it was full steam ahead.
I do remember that I was really let down about how lame the ending was... Empty castle, and an easy Dracula that didn't really look like Dracula.The game needed more castle action.
I used to rent this game on weekends when I was in 3rd grade. We lived in a rural part of my area, and during the week, I would pretend I was Simon and that I was traveling the countryside trying to solve Dracula riddle. I would sing all the tracks from this game, I had a makeshift whip and everything. I would always get stuck playing this game, but I loved it.
I got it for Christmas one year. Loved the cover art at the time (NES boxes still make me happy) and was super excited to play it. And it didn't really disappoint, honestly; in those days you didn't really think about how inconvenient it was to have to get the secrets from Nintendo Power. And I figured out most of them myself, got the mediocre ending, and haven't really gone back to it since, even though I still have that same copy sitting on my game shelf. Maybe one of these days.
Well, I´ve never played this one before, but the other Castlevania 2 (Belmont´s Revenge, Gameboy) Anyway, almost all Castlevania Games got epic soundtracks and your covers of them are always impressive!
So sick. I think this is one of the more underappreciated songs from the Castlevania series, and the instrument choices suit it perfectly.
thanks a lot !
True. Almost every song in this game that isn’t bloody tears is under appreciated.
Perfection
Excellent choice! Your covers of Classic Castlevania are always amazing.
can't go wrong with a castlevania tune :D
You really brought out the sense of heroism in this one. Your covers are so good!
This is fantastic. Great choice.
TheRelaxingEnd yo
These CV2 tracks are so short, but so good. Thanks for bringing it to life.
This is pure awesomeness!!!! LOVE IT!!!
thanks a lot dude... you wouldn't be speedrunning C2 as well by any chance ? :D
I'm not but a buddy of mine is and he does the quad floor drop and he's really good at it and could catch the world record any day now
Great pick! Awesome tune.
Best cover I’ve seen so far. Great job.
I shouldn't be surprised by your awesome song choice anymore and yet I am. Haven't heard a cover of this in ages! Fantastic dude!
yeah. It seems a lot more people are doing modern game covers, which is cool but there's clearly a lack of old classic once more it seems.
Too many 64 era kids in our community and not enough "young" fellows like us haha
For how many hours and days I’ve listened to that song, I can listen to it for a few more with you playing it 👍
Thanks.
I 1st played it in middle school ...I loved it!! the music and theme and the "rpg" element...such a great game!!!
One of the best
This game is not liked much but I loved it as a kid and I think the music was a huge factor in that, Castlevania is my favorite franchise of all time. Nice cover as always, I'll be completely honest: I thought it was a lame instrument, but since I started seeing your videos, my opinion has changed, I didn't know the banjo could be so fun! Maybe I'll try to learn to play it in the future but not right now, I'm learning violin and oh god it's difficult. Thanks for this new video!
Simply fantastic. Awesome work.
Terrific cover! Probably the best one.
Remember writing down what some townsfolk said (with a dictionary) and trying to figure out what that one rumor in particular meant. Soon I find myself following some tip, counting trees in a forest finding absolutely nothing but plenty of spiders. Damn those fake news :D.
The music was so memorable in this game.
amazing recording!!!
We can't stop here, this is banjo country! (Seriously though, this is acoustically amazing)
lol. thanks
Once again Ollie, perefect execution, love it!
You prossess amazing banjo skills.
Love this tune. Works really well with your instrumentation 😃
Really impressive!
If the Castlevania license gets sold and a remake is planned, they need to hire this guy for the soundtrack!
ur fuckkinn awesome bro. found ur ad on TH-cam. I dig this shit doo much I been loving video game covers since Napster. in 30 n have always dug this shit wether its banjo or bagpipe or viola or guitar. all us nes heads it there, its no wonder we love metal that's mostly whatl nes had was metal tracks
thanks a lot dude. & welcome
Love this tune!
thanks dude
nice clear playing tracks sound great... first impression of cv2 is " wtf where do I go?"
thanks a lot
Incredible! 😁
Folking amazing tune!
Excellent!!!!
I played it back when I was in Jr high during the late 80s. I was already a fan from the first game so I was expecting it to be kind of the same. The game didn't explain a hell of a lot and I used to roam back and forth trying to make sense of the clues I would come across. I met a kid in school one day who told me about using the white crystal, after that the game finally opened up for me. I swear though, I literally threw holy water on every single square block in that game trying to discover anything that I could that might lead me to something new. I was obsessed with this game and still have the final password of mine burned into my memory. I plan to have it put on my head stone without any explanation attached whatsoever.
Damn this is soo good !
Very cool!
Almost a tarantella version. Mamma mia!
Great as always, Mr. Banjo Guy. This piece always reminded me of Yngwie Malmsteen's Far Beyond the Sun:)
ce thème est magique. Merci mec !
(otherwise : Best Casltevania 8 bits Ever !)
Just found your channel. It’s sooo dope! I would love to hear a cover of the Quartet Stage 1/Theme for Sega Master System!
thanks a lot dude. welcome to the crazyness
Dead on my man!
This freaking rules.
thanks a lot
Спасибо за такую хорошую работу
Nice, nice :D Castlevania II will always have a place near and dear to my heart. Was it great? Not really, but I enjoyed the music and besides the cryptic dialogue, it was fun to explore. I didn't think the kneeling at the precipice was that big of a deal. I mean, you do it early on in the game with the pond :/ I blame AVGN for mucking up that game's image more than anything :p Though I will add, Castlevania I and III are damned good in their own right.
I love it
thanks :)
Noice! Delay + mandolin = epic!
it's just needs more cowbell...
Increíble!!
thanks
Hell yeah! Still hoping for The Praying Hands from Belmont's Revenge cover. I haven't missed it, right?
What is the instrument at 0:33? A Bouzouki?
Great cover!
Hell yeah lol
If Simon Belmont was an American southern yokel. ;)
❤❤
You just keeps getting better.
Do you still play video games?
I'm finding so much castle vania ggoodness!!! This is Raaad! Makes me want to smash a vampire in its face!
Une piste un peu "oubliée" des vieux Castlevania, et c'est bien dommage..
Très chouette interprétation !
Symphony of the night 🙈?
Please play "battle of the Holly"
Ah, a very good choice.....but man did I hate playing that level!
Please do Pao Pao Island from Puzzle Bobble next pleaaase (composed by Kazuko Umino)
got a link to it ?
I HAVE A QUESTION 😁
Make my wildest dreams come true. Do Demon Seed. please
there will be more castlevania in the future for sure :)
Great job! Simon's quest gets a bad rap, it's a shame it has a great soundtrack. Especially the Japanese version uses an extra sound chip
My favorite CV song! Awesome job man! DYK...this song was inspired by yngwie malmsteen: far beyond the sun.
Here a link for those that want to check it out: th-cam.com/video/qrUj_0bgZPw/w-d-xo.html
didn't know that. I can hear now though. was a big Malmsteen fan in my younger years
You know, i never checked until now, but maybe the inspiration was the other way around. Castlevania 2 came out in 1987 and Far Beyond the Sun came out in 1989. Maybe Malmsteen was a Castlevania fan lol.