What Makes Metroid Music Sound Like Metroid Music?
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Published 2019-07-31
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All Comments (21)
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I’ve never realized how almost all of Metroid’s music is rhythmically governed by ‘breathing’ and now I can’t un-hear it. Brilliant.
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I learned how to bomb jump by following the rythm of magmoor caverns music in metroid prime.
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"Git gud gamer scrubs." - Hirokazu Tanaka, in Japanese probably.
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Honestly you could make a whole series just talking about Metroid Music. It is so unique.
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Someone once told me that Metroid Prime music was generic. That was funny.
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A fun fact about the Metroid Prime series' music is that most of the instruments are off-the-shelf synth patch presets, with the percussion coming from a weird hip-hop sample CD. It took a lot of skill to weave that into a signature sound, and they pulled it off wonderfully.
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Zelda Music :- Heroic and Just Metroid Music :- Heroic but with a price to pay
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My favorite Nintendo franchise, bar none. The sense of atmosphere, the "show don't tell" stories, the feeling of loneliness with a slight hint of dread mixed in with the feeling that you're just well equipped enough to deal with the horrors of these alien worlds. Metroid is a phenomenal series.
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Absolutely incredible. Off the top of my head I knew that one of the hallmarks of Metroid music was the droning bass pedal, but it was definitely used more innovating ways than I was expecting
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Donkey Kong Country: It's all about minimalist ambiance. Metroid: Hold my beer.
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I don't know of any other song that sounds anything like Kraid's lair theme. It's so unusual yet so good.
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I love your channel so much.
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It’s good to know that my favorite game out of the Metroid series was composed by a guy known as “hip”.
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You can tell when you're listening to Metroid music when you listen to a song that takes 7 years to be continued Ah, wait
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It's Lower Caverns in Samus Returms, Not lower brinstar. I can understand the confusion, but metroid lore commands me.
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I wish you would've spoke about the title theme's second half. That bit of music just screams space exploration. I really love that piece of music.
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The ambience and si-fi is crazy. Metroid Prime probably had the most "Metroid" music .. and it got folks 😳
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it's like a progressive band created a conceptual album about "samus aran journey through zebes". The mellotron sounds, the heroic themes, the atmosphere.... What a beautiful masterpiece 'super metroid' is....
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Your change to Ocarina of Time's Hyrule Field theme sounds like it could have been from Majora's Mask in terms of how what it seemed to be saying emotionally. Which as far as illustrations of the difference that change makes - giving it a darker bite - is an effective one.
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"Cornerstone" I'm sure Nintendo would disagree with Metroid being called that for the last decade
