Plok! - Creepy Crag / A Line In The Sand ~ Beach | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

In this past week Tim Follin's brother Geoff who also assisted him on making soundtracks passed away from pancreatic cancer. Rest in peace.

RIP Geoff Follin, he was a great composer

Tragically Geoff Follin passed away earlier this week to pancreatic cancer. Plok's soundtrack is allegedly nigh impossible to rip from the game so a lot of RU-vid uploads (especially the older ones) are not of the clearest quality as you probably heard, which is probably why the cassette release was requested as it was the first official soundtrack release iirc. Why a cassette? Same reason we get vinyl releases, people love their old physical media. Tim's legacy dates back to the good ol' ZX Spectrum with one channel of audio. He winds up doing exactly as you'd expect him to at the ripe young age of 15.

When a soundtrack is so good that you can't tell what you heard was either the original or modified. This games soundtrack will go down in history as one of the greats

Not really related to VGM directly, but I'll always credit Tim for my absolute love of prog metal since he infused so many cool prog metal/prog rock musical bits into his soundtracks. One of the reasons I'll always consider him one of my favorites of all time, it was so formative to my music taste even to this day!

Plok was among the many mascot platformer/games that came out during the SNES. It wasn't very popular at all and it was brutally difficult for lots of reasons. The music though? Well... you've been hearing.

Oh hey, my request is finally here! I'm been waiting for this for a long time. The Plok soundtrack is what got me interested in prog rock. To clear things up, the 2019 cassette release is one of the two official releases of the soundtrack that I know of, the other being the 2020 vinyl release. Both are the original soundtrack recorded directly from the game and not remix or rearrangement albums. Many of the most popular unofficial recordings of the soundtrack I've found on RU-vid have a "crunchy" sound because they were recorded without the SNES's audio filter to remove the aliasing.

The cassette release version is actually just the original SNES music, maybe a bit remastered. Plok is probably Tim's most known soundtrack honestly, aside from Pictionary, Silver Surfer and Solstice.

6:35 This has probably been mentioned in a previous Plok vid, but this OST is extra wizardly because it does all this while leaving two audio channels entirely untouched for sound effects to play without cutting into the music. I'm not sure how true it is, but there's a story that Shigeru Miyamoto opened up a cart because he couldn't believe there wasn't another sound chip in there contributing

Hope the next reaction of Plok is Akrilic

Tim's brother Geoff actually composed 75% of the music for Plok so he may have composed this

Best part, in most his songs Tim would leave 2 audio channels empry so that during gameplay, no matter what, the sound effects never stopped the nusic

Another good Tim Follin track is the title screen from Time Trax

Follin's best work is Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. Especially tracks like Passage to Genesis, Hanging Waters, and Aquamarine Bay. But I really love how he pushed sound systems in older consoles like with Plok or Silver Surfer. I second the others who say Akrillic is another great track from Plok!

I noticed the bass was traveling from ear to ear in A Line In the Sand

Plok is funny, cause when I heard Beach for the first time in a youtube video and saw it was sourced from an SNES game, I didn't believe that shit for a second. Then you actually play it, and uh... it hits different when you hear those synths on hardware, coming from CRT TV speakers.

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If you wanna hear the first Tim works, might check his ZX Spectrum / Amstrad / Atari (not the best ones here) works. Yes, they're brilliant. But the ZX Spectrum sound chip might kinda heart your ears on first listening lol. Great open mind and reaction as usual. Also rip Geoff

that's not a weird cut, the song really does that wild change of key and feel!

I love your reactions, I also discovered Plok's music very recently. I really like Akrillic, you should check him out!!

Wow, I literally just watched you to react to the boss theme a day or two ago by complete coincidence, love it when things work out just right lol

Couldn't tell you when I played this but I remember the beach theme. I want to say it was one of the first levels.

As a huge PLOK! Enjoyer, i would recommend listening to the Title Theme and the Bonus Level, they are absolutely stunning, Tim was absolute wizard for putting this stuff on the SNES of all things, also recommend the ethereal Time Trax soundtrack but you can listen to that another time

Plok Soundtrack is the only vinyl I own because the Soundtrack is so unreal.

Having played Plok many times in my life I would say the sound effects don't take away from the music. I can also say that, yes, I did lose my mind when playing this game.

tim follin the goat

I also suggest playing the game. It's a difficult platformer but it's a lot of fun.

my parents used to call video-game music, noise... and it used to upset me a lot.

I actually bought this game because I wanted to listen to it on hardware. Just because this damn soundtrack is so god damn good. I'm so happy I found and bought this game.

Plok! was one of those games where the game was Okay but the soundtrack seemed like it was for a different game because it far out paces the game XD. If you haven't heard anything from Contra Hard Corps (Genesis) I think you'd like that soundtrack. Specifically "The Hard Corps" , "Format X" & "Last Springsteen" .

YES PLOKKKK

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You should listen to all of the tartarus blocks in persona 3

Kinda off topic but what is the music playing in the background while Jesse’s speaking? I for the life of me cannot remember, I feel like Xenoblade or something

What the intro/outro music you used in this video?

This slaps, wth?

I had this game as a kid. Was never able to beat it. I actually revisited it just a couple weeks ago if you'd believe. Yeah, the level design kinda blows, the only reason to play it is the music.