What if a time traveler steps on a stick and changes the reality where Yumetaro was more popular than Kirby, and people around the world would be celebrating his 30th ann.
I hate to say it, but if that were the case, then Exact*Mix would be a widely accessible game, loved by all, and I would be making a Kirby's Adventure 30th Ann. album! 😅
Dont worry. Doa always finds balance. Plus it will be released for steam. Kirby is very differtent. This game feels more ode to arcade experience and kirby like a kids toy.
It will be SOO funny if I step on a stick and gimmick series was officially selinced by Nintendo and immediately bought out the company thus turining gimmick into a iniconic famous franchise
THIS HIT 5K VIEWS! I'm glad people are finding this OST anniversary project and talking about it, having fond memories of Gimmick! and such. Thank you very much for checking it out!
Technically this isn't an OST. OST stands for Original SoundTrack. This is neither original as in the music originally in the game, nor original as in "not derivative". I like what I'm hearing though.
Finally. Not only a cover, but an entire ost cover that fully reflects what I hear in my head echoing after playing the game to a tee. Here’s to hoping this gets spread even more and hopefully the current rights holder eventually releases the Arcade remake to consoles one day.
Thanks (THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYIN)!! It'd be dream come true if I actually got to play Exact*Mix in some capacity. No one's even ripped any exA-Arcadia stuff online yet!
@@R3tronaut I actually recall seeing that MAME had I think 2 of exA Arcadia shootemups ported and working within it? Not sure what exactly that means for the future of Gimmick though.. maybe we can get a group to just decompile the game and a fan restoration in the same style can be created from that.
i absolutely love a game called cave story, this game's artstyle and music feels so so so much like cave story, almost as if it was made by the same person, i absolutely love this game, i havent tried it but sure as heck i wanna play it, im gonna emulate just for the sake of playing it holy shit
To make an entire cover album on Gimmick! out of pure love for the game is such an insane thing to do!! Every single track is incredibly done, and I especially love your take on Strange Memories of Death! Absolutely fantastic job~
This kicks the Exact Mix's butt from here to kingdom come. Won't lie though, helps that it can actually be listened to without blowing the Mega Millions jackpot on a cabinet.
Color me impressed. Here are my takeaways: 1. DAT BASS! Sunsoft DPCM is all its crunchy, compressed, rife-with-quantization-noise-yet-iconic glory. Love it. 2. The soundtrack overall is superb, but you have a knack for video production. Just the little bits like syncing the intro and outro with the music, the title card/credit edits to match the actual album's credits, and the little stars showing which song is playing are "quality-of life" stuff that tends to go unnoticed. Until now! Oh, and @ 35:25...we must protect lo-fi dancing Yumetoro at all costs. 3. I think I've been playing too much Final Fantasy lately. In "A Paradox!", did you use the metal clang sample from FFVII's battle theme? Dunno, sounds familiar to me. 4. Admittedly I was a little apprehensive to hear "Cadbury Rock!". Cadbury is easily my favorite song from the original, and lobbies for one of my favorite NES tracks of all time. You and your Kageyama-inspired grooves and synths managed to make Cadbury slap even HARDER than the original, well fucking done! 5. Circling back to lo-fi Yumetoro, "(BONUS) Sky's the Limit!" makes me want to petition for another Jet Set Radio game. Please? You need more views and subs, please take mine! (EDIT: Ufouria OST arrangement when? he)
Big big thanks for the love! Also YOU CAUGHT MY USE OF THE FFVII CLANG!!! I love that clang; it's essential to the song. Cadbury was also a scary song for me to tackle, since I took inspiration from all the versions and covers I loved. It's a heavy hitting song for me as well. I've thought about covering Ufouria and even Trip World, but aside from getting busier I realized I didn't have the same passion/connection with those games like I have with Gimmick. (PS: Can't wait for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk!)
You kinda made it sound like it came out of a Gimmick arcade game from the era, like the 16-bit sound makes me think a bit of the original Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move. Nice work! Also TIL that they're rereleasing this game on multiple platforms! Yes!! It'd be cool to have a music album come with it where it's arranged in sort of a period accurate way, like a soundtrack album from the early 90s and how that would sound. I can kinda hear some jazz fusion influences in some tracks along with other genres.
This album is sweet friggin justice for this absolute gem of a game, thank you for the work you poured into this! Your take on Cadbury will be forever stuck in my head, god it's so good :'D
There’s no sequel to this game and I guess because it wasn’t released in North America and anywhere else but only in Europe and Japan and then Sunsoft probably forgot about it. It’s a year older than Kirby. Great job on the music!
Gimmick had both an official soundtrack release and arcade remake in 2020, so they can't have totally forgotten. "Europe" makes the situation sound far better than it was, also. It was _only_ Scandinavia for god knows what reason.
I've been obsessed with this game's soundtrack for a while now and I must say that this is a wonderful recreation. Your rendition of Long Tomorrow is by far my favorite one on the album. I love the buildup and it goes super hard with those little guitar riffs you added in the back, haha. Simply fantastic. Man, I really need to play this game someday.
Very lovely work! I hope this gets more attention in the future! Interestingly, I think this remade OST may sound kind of YM2612-esque, which adds to the funk!
fuckin rules man! so glad i was able to make the cover art for this too!!! this is some fine ass work you made, and ive already been listening nonstop omg
Why does this have so few views? This is such an awesome playlist, well done! I was always saddened by how little attention Gimmick! got upon release, the game is such an underrated gem.
Thanks! It was a shame that it was a late NES release that was too hard for people, and I wanted to give the soundtrack care and attention since everyone who knows the game loves it!
@@BynaryFission Thanks, and about what I used for this: FL Studio 12 Tons of different SNES, Genesis, and Sunsoft soundfounts and samples An 8-bit vst called SANA and a 16-bit vst called GENNY (also made the cover art using Photoshop)
I have only heard of Gimmick only beacause of this flash game called Super Mario Crossover, and it played Gimmick's OST, and i never knew. i did end up playing the game after. despite it's challenging difficulty, the music slaps. also your renditions are fire as well! great work.
youre an absolute legend for this, seriously lol im a huge fan of this game and its soundtrack and you did such a good job with this... i love how you fleshed out the tracks, and your selection of instruments to use here strikes a really good balance between the retro chip instruments and the 80s synth samples they were replicating, i think you really nailed it with the orchestra hits in Identity Believer especially! AND THE ALBUM ART, the way you drew Yumetaro is adorable!!! also i love He : ) side note: i think i wouldve agreed with the idea of squishing Long Tomorrow into phase 1 in favor of Strange Memories Of Death back when i first found out about the song, but Long Tomorrow actually REALLY grew on me over time, and that solo you added definitely does it justice. if only there was a good spot for SMOD, like a third phase or some kinda playable escape sequence... IMO, it just wouldnt be fair to either track unless they both got their proper moments to shine. anyway, insta-subbed, cant wait to hear more of your stuff : )
SUNSOFT GIVE US EXACT MIX ON PC YOU COWARDS Jokes aside, this is really well made. I've had Rise and Shine be my morning alarm for the past month now, it's that good.
Of all the remixes and different versions of Gimmick's songs that I've heard on RU-vid this is without a doubt the best I've heard so far! I love how each song sounds the same but improved and with details that make them stand out better. My favorites are ''Aporia, Oh My!'' ''Identity Believer, Dream Weaver! (Serious Battle)'' ''Cadbury Rock!'' and ''The Evidence Of My Life Makes For A Long Tomorrow! (Phase 1)'' (Very clever of you to combine the two songs from the final battle, kudos for that) Great job R3 and everyone reading this go play Gimmick! RIGHT NOW!!! c:
Gimmick is a very good game but it did not get the credit that it deserves. It would be great for Yumetaro to be in Smash Bros but the biggest reason is because it wasn’t released in North America (which is because Sunsoft of America did not approve of it due to its quirkiness.) People like Kirby more because in Kirby you can do so much more than in Gimmick. Let me explain this in detail. 1. The title. Kirby’s titles is Kirby’s adventure, Kirby’s dreamland, Kirby’s Pinball, etc, but for Gimmick, it’s just Gimmick or Mr. Gimmick. That’s it. 2. The locations. Kirby is set in dreamland or Planet Popstar. The game is set in various locations such as Vegetable Valley, Orange Ocean. Ice cream island etc, but Gimmick is set just in a toy realm. 3. The enemies. In Kirby, the enemies all vary and they have powers that Kirby can suck up to use against other enemies. In Gimmick you can’t do that. All you have is a star and the star can be pretty hard to manage. 4. The bosses. The bosses of Kirby are very excellent such as Meta Knight, King Dedede etc, but in Gimmick the bosses are just huge versions of the toys. 5. The storyline. The plot and storyline of Kirby is exciting such as saving dreamland from evil and other things but in Gimmick all you have to do is a save a girl trapped in the toy realm just like Mario saving Peach. 6. Marketing. Sunsoft didn’t make a commercial featuring this game to spread awareness about it which is another reason why it didn’t generate that much sales. I’m not saying this to affect you and anyone else but I’m just saying the reasons why Gimmick is not as popular as the other games and why Yumetaro is not in Smash Bros. Thank you.
I would adore it if you were able to make extended versions of your remixes. I wanna be able to listen to all of these masterfully remastered Mr. Gimmick songs for at least 15 minutes at a time while I draw. Keep up the good work!
I love this so much. Making music myself I'm impressed how you have been able to do all of this work. It's amazing! By the way I love how you repeat the beginning part of Sophia in the end
Woah, "Strange Memories of Death" absolutely slaps! That's an unused song in the game's soundtrack, right? I noticed you also labeled it "Phase 2" presumably of the final boss fight. Was it known if it was actually meant to be for a scrapped second phase of that fight? Now I'm all curious! This whole soundtrack is amazing. I hope enough hype generates over this old game that somebody gets inspired to dump the arcade-board-exclusive remake's data online...
Thanks for the kind words! It's been noted that SMOD was indeed a scrapped part of the 7th Stage, so I imagined it would be placed after the Final Boss before Yumetaro gets to the girl. As for the board dumps, we can only pray...
I like how the album cover you’ve made for the video could conceivably fit a cassette tape case, which begs the question of whether it would be possible to make a cassette tape or a compact disc of this fan soundtrack and use said cover artwork and labels for the case. 🤨
