✨Timestamps✨ (I've spent 3 hours making sure I got them all so yall can enjoy) 0:00 - Start 0:47 - Get On The Bus 2:20 - Super Dry Dance 4:38 - The Metropolis of Fourside 8:40 - Topalla Theatre, Home of the One and Only Venus 10:53 - Runaway Five's Final Performance 12:23 - Venus Live! 14:35 - Save the Miners! 18:20 - Boris Cocktail 19:58 - Moonside Swing 20:37 - Bad Morning To You 21:06 - The Monkeys' Maze 22:04 - Runnaway Five to the Rescue! 22:27 - Summers, Eternal Tourist Trap 23:55 - In Dalaam, There is a Warrior 24:49 - The Floating Kingdom of Dalaam 27:42 - (Talks about the Pentatonic Scale of the song) 29:38 - Mu Training 30:13 - Pink Cloud Shrine 31:47 - Sailing Scaraba 32:58 - The Voyage Continues 33:49 - Kraken of the Sea 37:05 - Bazaar 39:39 - Morning in the Desert 40:03 - The Unforgiving Desert 43:06 - Pyrimid 44:50 - Inside the Dungeon 45:52 - Megaton Walk 46:26 - The Submarine 47:31 - The Deep Darkness 50:26 - The Tendas Cave 52:43 - Battle Against a Machine 54:36 - Stonehenge Base Shuts Down 55:07 - Falling Underground 55:17 - The Lost Underworld 58:21 - Lava Springs 59:37 - Sound Stone Gaint Step 59:44 - Lilliput Steps 59:50 - Milky Well 59:57 - Rainy Circle 1:00:02 - Magnet Hill 1:00:09 - Pink Cloud 1:00:15 - Lumine Hall 1:00:20 - Fire Spring 1:00:27 - No Sounds 1:00:36 - Giant Step Complete 1:00:45 - Lilliput Steps Complete 1:00:50 - Milky Well Complete 1:00:57 - Rainy Circle Complete 1:01:03 - Magnet Hill Complete 1:01:08 - Pink Cloud Complete 1:01:15 - Lumine Hall Complete 1:01:21 - Fire Spring Complete 1:01:27 - No Sounds Complete 1:01:37 - Eight Melodies 1:05:20 - The Nightmare Begins 1:05:33 - Welcome Home 1:08:37 - The Jolly Flying Man 1:09:26 - Deeper Into Ness' Subconscious 1:11:03 - Sea of Eden 1:13:09 - The Power 1:14:17 - Ness Awakens From a Nightmare 1:14:58 - Spacetoner 1:15:16 - Phase Distorter Failed 1:15:24 - Success 1:15:28 - The Cliff That Time Forgot 1:16:42 - The Place 1:17:48 - Giygas's Lair 1:18:40 - Giygas Intro 1:21:35 - Pokey Means Business! 1:25:14 - Giygas Stirs 1:26:00 - Giygas Intimidation 1:27:11 - Prayer For Safety 1:29:40 - Giygas is Wounded! 1:30:26 - Giygas is Fatally Wounded! 1:30:50 - Giygas Disintegrates 1:31:35 - The Heros Return [Part 1] 1:33:07 - The Heros Return [Part 2] 1:35:08 - Because I Love You 1:39:21 - Good Friends, Bad Friends 1:43:27 - Smiles and Tears 1:49:08 - Extra [Hidden Track and other Jingles] 1:53:46 - End Stream/Summary
You’re really going to enjoy Mother 3’s soundtrack. There’s a mechanic in the game where you have to time your hits to the tempo of the battle music. So later on in the game, the battle themes become more complex to try and trip you up.
Dude really?? That's so cool. I'd didn't even know. I really need to replay mother 3 (Edit 2 months later) Wow! This is probably the only game I've ever replayed and enjoyed more on the replay. Probably because first time I was expecting an earthbound sequal, but Mother 3 completely different and unique.
@@fallenhuman2081 Yeah, you can legit play the entire game without noticing because they don't emphasize it at any point, but hitting the attacks on beat actually makes you get crits!
@@tedkofficial4244 Yes, there is! What I meant is that they don't make too big a deal out of it and you can easily miss that part of the gameplay entirely.
Giygas definitely sets those with tinnitus off. And someone in the comment section mentioned that there is no enemy sprite for Giygas. Giygas _is the background._ It also emphasizes just how much his evil nature and power has grown. Going into the background means that his influence has spread across the confines of reality itself. Going beyond our comprehension, into something that we _shouldn't_ understand at all. Try to think about it, you might go a little... crazy.
@@grotn_ I like how they didn't just plop a weird alien and said "this is the embodiment of EVIL!" His power is so ridiculously imnense he destroyed his own body and booted himself out of time itself, the final fight being nothing but the remains of his consciousness drifting among the power
@@heckincat1406 Yeah but it mean, most RPGs have this one dude that's the evil mastermind, with a purpose, but still just a dude Like with how all Final Fantasy games end up with a dude turning into a biblically accurate angel But here it's a very logical transition, because a simple creature couldn't even hold it's own shape under so much power
@@rompevuevitos222 yeah i understand you, the transformation between him in mother 1 and 2 is very cool and unsettling to people that've played it, like i recently did.
Fun note about "The Place" is that it's just the first note sampled from the song "Deirdre" by the Beach Boys, it's just the Beach Boys singing "DEEEEEEEE--" over and over at different pitches, and yet it sounds so abstract and eerie because of that!
“You wanna talk about metal??” (The drums really kick in) 🤯🤯🤯 Video is worth it entirely for that moment alone. Loved your reactions, loved your takes on everything, love your enthusiasm!
btw if you like this genre of thing, Tim and his brother Geoff Follin made the most impressive rock and non-rock music on the system, like the Moto-X SNEE prototype title screen music
In case you didn't guess: the eight melodies tracks you heard with the big buffers around them, several times, are part of melodies (like triforce pieces) you collect as you progress through the game. The song they compose ("eight melodies") isn't clear until near the end of the game. Watching you catch it and strum along in real time was precious and an excellent recreation of what we felt back then. You said you messed up, but truly, it was perfect because you messed up. Back then, we were hearing it for the first time, too.
The 8 pieces of them are played in three different scenarios. One, (the first in the soundtrack) are played in complete isolation, as you discover the pristine environments that hum their few notes to you. Again, when you play the "sound stone" which relays them back to you, with no percussive thrum behind them, leaving a whining dead space for the pieces you haven't unlocked yet. The third, when you play the full thing, with the thrumming that connects them with a tempo that is just a little adjusted to make it a single piece.
Smiles and Tears is emotional enough on its own within the game's context, but I and so many others associate it so heavily with the passing of the late and great Satoru Iwata. It really REALLY chokes me up every time i hear it. Listening to it in full completely breaks me, and when it gets to the "I Miss You" I straight up start sobbing. I'm 27 now, I was 20 when Iwata passed, mature enough for it to really feel impactful.
SUPER bittersweet. In the game this is the point were you basically have to say goodbye to all the characters. It is a happy ending, but sad at the same time.
I played Earthbound when I was 8 and actually finished the game when I was 16, my current age. Smiled and Tears made me cry. All the characters that I’ve seen since I was 8 leaving before my very eyes, and hearing the Eight Melodies one final time (called Smiles and Tears in the end credits), and seeing all the pictures the Photo Man took of Ness on his adventure in different locations made me tear up. And the “I miss you”… At that part I was already sobbing
So, an interesting bit of lore for "The Power": At this point in the game, you have gone through Ness' subconscious and defeated every single bit of evil inside him and are given the power of the planet itself (which is also why this game is called "EarthBound"). Ness, the protagonist, basically is now the opposite of the final boss. True Good vs True Evil. This game is absolutely amazing. I hope my explaination lets you imagine what is happening in-game. Context is what makes this game's soundtrack even better
Fun fact: The song Boris Coctail (Jackies Cafe theme) not only has the u.s anthem playing in the background, but it also uses samples from the Little Rascals theme in it as well.
or how about the first one? just sorta jumped in at number 2. Eight Melodies in the first Mother is a different beast and beautiful when done by the St Paul's Choir
@@no1guy825 earthbound already reuses most of the music from mother, so it wouldn’t be all that different. When it comes to mother 3, the music is more unique
Ah yes, such pleasant earsounds such as the Kraken theme, Runaway Five, *an absolute destruction of the senses facing against a unfathomable being in a dead world before time itself,* Monkey’s Maze, so many good tunes.
Listening to Giygas's Themes put of context doesn't give it justice. You really need to see a Video of the fight. Also yes Earthbound was the inspiration for Undertale.
I'm curious about how well-studied musicians think. When you hear music like this that you've never heard before, do you actually picture the sheet music for it? Like can you see all the notes written out in formal music notation as you listen to it?
I don’t think I could ever truly comprehend this ost it does a lot with technology that’s just shouldn’t be capable of even half of this stuff. It pulls in inspiration from everywhere and they all make sense in context.
risk of rain 2 Risk of Rain 2 RISK OF RAIN 2 It has amazing guitar and really great synth it's just overall the best soundtrack I've ever listened to, and is relatively unknown
While I’m also hoping to see Mother 3, I feel like knowing the music of Mother 1 to be a very good foundation to have before listening to what’s the finale soundtrack. Also there’s the Mother Vocal Album, which has many Mother 1 songs fully orchestrated and with English lyrics!
Thanks so much for reacting to this dan! Glad I could be there for a bit. Hope you’re able to play the game some day in the future, it’s real charming. You’re awesome dude!
Really do appreciate having this on the list even though it was so long ago and wasn’t a superchat thing. Guess there is a benefit to being here for a while haha
i always come back to your reactions every few months because they're insightful and fresh every time. you provide concise and thorough analysis with passion and relatability that makes everything easy to follow and have fun with. this soundtrack in particular is always so fun to revisit, it's completely unique and i love everything you have to say about it. super awesome stuff :)
I've really gained a new appreciation for this soundtrack! I love that because the game is initially set in a small town in the U.S. a lot of the music pulls from musicians who were prevalent around that time and place.
I think I'd be more hyped if you listened to Moter 3's music first and then Earthbound Zero's Anyway thanks for bringing this Ost, Earthbound is one of my favorite rpg's and it has very catchy themes
Earthbound's final boss battle is one of the most insane things on the SNES. The whole game has a lot of pretty strange elements but that last boss... It is the only game on the SNES that legit scared me as a kid. Sitting in the dark with those strange sounds while Giygas incoherently rambles in the static trying to destroy me. It was great.
The funny thing about Moonside Swing is that the entire song is done with the same sample of Keep On Laughin' by Ric Ocasek. Even the high pitched shimmering notes. I've looked into the song's sample data. lol
The giygas music still gives me chills. I remember when I first beat this game back in like 94….I was a similar age to Ness, I’d never played anything like EarhBound before, I’d never seen or read anything that was a coming of age story before, I’d never genuinely laughed out loud at a game before nor cried because of a game either. At that moment in life, I had never related to something so much. This game had such a profound impact on me. It still is and always will be my favorite game of all time.
i highly recommend you listen to the ost of splatoon 1 + 2!! especially the dlc ost, theres so much variety and weirdness to it that makes splatoon, splatoon :]
It's pronounced 'geeg'/'geeguhs', for those wondering. Gigue/Giygas. Funky Japanese syllables for a really weird-sounding name. Whenever I see it, I'm reminded of how hhgregg is spelled all lowercase and as one word.
i know this has been mentioned elsewhere, but in "the place," the sample is from the beach boys, but toby fox also uses the same sample in "amalgam." toby was super influenced by earthbound and earthbound soundfonts are used super heavily in undertale/deltarune
If you get the chance, can you pls. check out Team Fortress 2's soundtrack. From a game dev sense, it's a perfect A+ when it comes to portraying the character's personalities & playstyles, but I'm definitely curious on ur thoughts about it in the music theory sense.
I covered Pokey Means Business for the Dwelling of Duels competition last month. That one is bananas. Lol! Btw... since you're reacting to songs from games you should look into that competition... they've got some excellent renditions of game tunes.
Feel bad for missing almost all of this, but I was busy at the time so I couldn't have watched the whole thing even if I was prepared. Glad you enjoyed EarthBound, and here's hoping if and when you eventually listen to MOTHER/EarthBound Beginnings (the first game) and MOTHER 3, you'll enjoy them as well.
I'd love to see you react to Crypt of the Necrodancer! It's a game built around making your way through dungeons while keeping up with the beat of the music, and naturally, it has an amazing soundtrack. It even has four official remixes of most of its tracks, so there's a whole lot of content we could get out of it!
Hi i really love your content i was really addicted to music and I got you in my recommendation i didn't even knew there were like ..Music teachers.... But yeah I love your reactions and videos especially you are reacting on the ost of my favourite games 😍
so - 24:49, The Floating Kingdom of Dalaam... The song is quite literally a sort of East Asian-style arrangement of the chorus of one of Keiichi Suzuki's (the composer of Mother 1 and Earthbound) own tracks, "Words, Colours, Noises, And Booms", from his album "White Report". I think it's really a cool self-reference that's juxtaposed against the mass of western-influenced songs and references seen in the western-themed locations. (definitely recommend listening to his work, he even recently did a revisit of the Mother 1 OST in his own unique style - a really cool contrast to the original version of the soundtrack released alongside the game. lol) Also, I'm a video late, but I'm pretty sure Dr. Andonuts' Lab is heavily influenced by, if not directly a reference to, the ambient works of Brian Eno. And on a last note, I SUPER recommend the works of Saeko Suzuki (collaborator and ex-wife of Keiichi Suzuki) - Her particular style is pretty great, and I personally really love the albums "Visinda og Leyndardómur" and "The Law of the Green". Definitely worth a listen! (also there's absolutely no way the bicycle theme in Earthbound wasn't inspired at least in part by the first track from the latter of those two albums!)
It would be good if he could listen to the music in context, but then again, it would be kinda hard to show all the scenes where all the music plays without playing the game.
I never thought about that. The heavy metal portion of Pokey Means Business sounding like it has inspiration from the Master of Puppets album? Then maybe the composer for Earthbound also listened to Metallica too?
Fun fact about Pokey Means Business' 8-bit part. All of the chip parts? Don't even use the 8-bit chip that's included in the SNES. They use sampled chiptune sounds, similar to a soundfont. The reason for this is likely because of the metal part. Can't exactly use more channels, as that's pretty much impossible. The metal part already uses them all up, so it only makes sense to simply just replace the sample when it needs to be replaced.
@52:43 : *Poo does something mysterious! *Poo's body changes into the Refueling Machine! Later on: *Poo refuels Ness! *Ness's HP are maxed out! I wonder how many people thought to have Poo use Morph on those refueling bots, lol. The only problem is that it doesn't always work.
@@rofai-ek9903 Who knows. lol. It was just one of those silly things that you just smile and nod about. It's a bit unreliable as Poo can refuel anybody in the group, even himself, or he could simply use any of the attacks the refueling bot has instead of doing the refueling thing, but, there were always these times where the RNG played nice and he'd use it on people who needed it, and in that game, healing is so very precious. Having a guaranteed 100% full heal was always cool when it happens, especially when it's free and costs no PP at all.
@@rofai-ek9903 Don't ask questions you aren't prepared the answer to. Also Poo's mirror ability has literally never worked for me every single time I've tried using it, what's the success rate for that?
So I'm like a year late on this, but one thing i keep thinking about is how mp3 did not exist at the time of the game release, so any ode to existing music was also somewhat special at the time in a way we can easily take for granted in games these days
A large part of me wants very heavily to entice you to look at the Final Fantasy 14 soundtrack but it's such a huge soundtrack that picking out even a setlist for you to react to would be quite an accomplishment. Still though...
A game with a beautiful soundtrack is Ori Will of the Wisps. It's the second game in the Ori series. While Ori and the Blind Forest also has gorgeous music, I think Ori and the Will of the Wisp's music has more going on, and would be a pretty good fit for you to react to! So many glorious strings. Though both games would obviously be awesome too~
Great reaction :) Love Earthbound. Not sure who sent you this version, but I think they should have sent the soundtrack version and not the whole sound of the game.... With Mother 3 I believe there is just the soundtrack.
During the soundtrack "song" Giygas's lair, it's interesting to note that the wind sounds that are being played are actually Giygas's breathing. It's also interesting to note that you are going to/are fighting a literal fetus in order to stop him from wiping out humanity in the future.
before you do mother 3, do earthbound beginnings. there are a few reasoins to do it in that order, but the biggest of which is that mother 3 references the soundtrack of the first two games, leading to some heartbreaking through-lines in the story that wouldn't have the same weight otherwise.
It’s not a very huge game, but I’d like to see you react and breakdown the “Landstalker Sega genesis ost” it’s another really nice soundtrack. If there is somewhere to submit the request I’d love to
