There is a character called "Ikaris" in Marvel Strike Force (Don't play it. The game sucks), and this damn song plays in my head whenever he is mentioned.
Hip Tanaka was really on fire that year. The title and end pieces from the original Metroid hover around the same harmonic ideas as this and it's just as perfect as a piece from Bach.
I'm using my Switch Online Trial wisely. Currently going through Kid Icarus, but I already beat Zelda 1, Mario 1, Punch Out and Kirby's Adventure. A few days well spent.
My friend and I have been watching Captain N, and in episode 12 this starts playing in the background apropos of nothing and I lost my shit I just started yelling lmao
Every time I hear this I wonder how on earth they managed to make music that sounded so good with such limited hardware. Those japanese composers just know how to lay down notes.
Both the beginning of this song and the beginning of Protoman's Whistle from Mega Man 3 are perfect examples of well composed things that were ruined by poor instrumentation. This tune is gold compositionally to be honest. I just wish the first part had a couple of lowered octave.
Meeemories, like the corners of my mind... What I wouldn't give to go back again and pluck those first arrows as a kid. Then I'd buy a bunch of bitcoins early on, retire into the woods as a billionaire, smoke sweet sativas, play any old game I want, and preemptively isolate myself from a world that would one day go insane.
