It's incredible that a highschool student composed these, at least from what I remember. I think about the things I did in HS, and not to belittle myself, but man would I be proud to know that I composed a great soundtrack for a game like this.
As much as I wanted to believe this, Jeremy Soule, the composer, was 20 years old as of the release of the game. It seems it was just out of high school that he composed it. Regardless, it's a major feat.
100% spot on! can't believe i beat it. It's not a perfect game, a few bugs LOL , but wow, the immersion is unbelievable...a masterpiece in a # of ways...such a deep play in so many ways....quirky and magical and frustrating and weird and AWESOME! Brilliant job Square
A game I loved playing as a kid, with a setting that by all accounts shouldn't work or blend together with the different parts of the world you explore...but somehow it does. Miss games like this.
Right? Crustacia and the Egyptian place, the Roman area, the medival setting.... And then even sci Fi and Jurassic all in one game. It's crazy now that you mention it
Great soundtrack, I cannot count the amount of playthroughs I've done of this game over the years. I'd play multiplayer Secret of Mana with mates, then when they had to go I'd break out Secret of Evermore.
Exactement pareil. j'ai toujours ma SNES avec ma collection de jeux avec 2 manettes neuves qui attendent, patiemment quelques années, que ma fille de 3 ans grandisse pour pouvoir y jouer. Ces jeux ne sont pas que de simples jeux, ce sont des voyages.
I'm really good with coding for Zandronum and GZ Doom, I know the ins and outs of those engines and sometimes I have thought to make some kind of recreation of the game in there
bons tempos jogando esse game com meu irmão mais novo :) até hoje tenho tantas boas lembranças.... o tempo passava diferente, haviam outras coisas ligadas a nós que hoje já não existem mais! E o youtube é uma grande máquina do tempo, que guarda recordações e memórias.
@@hell_pike9150 yep. And he was actually 18 or 19 when he composed it. His first major video game composition. Insane. He did have some help from his brother.
Yea, he is pretty well known due to his Elder Scrolls involvement. This was his first game. He basically sent in a demo tape to Square as a high school student and received a call-back. Insanely talented guy, but still boggles me how back in the days boomer were able to essentially walk into an office and receive a job, not even having to interface with the corporate dystopian hellscape that exists today.
I have never heard of this game and have no idea why youtube inserted it into my playlist, but goddamn, that's a good soundtrack. Thanks for uploading!
Jeremy Soule, for everyone who doesn't know, is the controversial genius behind The Elder Scrolls 4 and 5, Oblivion and Skyrim OST's, respectively. The guy was forging greatness from my childhood and I had no idea it was the SAME MANS.
If someone gets to play this game today i bet they can make good use of this game surround sound implementation. Thank you for this clean version of the songs. Though i do like the bit of nostalgic crust(compression) from the original sometimes.
You want the original midi files then. You can download them for free online! And there are many free players to play them. I suggest Anvil Studio or Dayum Pot Player
what agame what a game what agame !!! the genius of the composers and all who created the game is top notch! 1 hell of an accomplisment. spent so many hours on this game :)
As someone who has listened to almost every song in this soundtrack on loop for hours, this is a really fun, calming, fresh way to listen to the whole OST! Some of the instrumentation choices here are really wild in a good way, like they recontextualize the songs in really fun ways. Horace's theme sounds like it would play in an Arabian marketplace or something, and was that Omnitopia Hallways that you played with those super gentle chimes about 11 minutes in? That sounds like something you'd hear while exploring some really tranquil icy mountaintops, haha
Yeah it's wonderful how this turned out. It took almost no effort on my part. I only tried different sound fonts and applied them to the MIDI files and produced the mp3
@@donstarlancer I replayed it 2 years ago on my phone with an emulator and Xbox controller... I had never beaten it but when I did I actually cried. I thought how cool it would be to track down all the developers and get them together in a Facebook group and thank them for what they did making this game or something like that. I wonder if they knew they touched people's hearts with that game
I'm fairly sure it'll be released on the Nintendo Switch SNES console app, they're gonna put out a bunch of older RPGs like SoE, and 'The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang' and such made by 3rd parties like (respectively) Squaresoft and Konami
it's a hard game. i've played 90% of squaresoft's games, only ever actually died in this game. it's impossible to die in most RPGs because all it takes is a small amount of lvling up and spamming of attacks.. THIS game on the other hand, there's not only a grind, despite pushing the damage, the enemies have massive amounts of HP compared to the amount of damage you can deal at the time of meeting these enemies. swamp boss was the real deal.
although swamp boss was fairly easy if you took a bit of time lvling up your spear. And everything goes of the rail once you get the alchemy Crush and lvl it up. Other than that, the game is indeed really hard
@@abletonreason lol indeed, gotta challenge the norm :P I like the world and characters better in SoE over SoM. I think the art direction is a little more appealing too, and they fixed some of the audio channel glitch issues in SoE over SoM. (sound effects don't cut out the music tracks like they do in SoM) Just my two cents though. Game on!
A great game. Borrows a lot of the Secret of Mana gameplay and is the first game in which the composer Jeremy Soule (that later did Skyrim, Guild Wars, Total Annihilation) was able to debut his musical talent.
@@hell_pike9150 Secret of Evermore came out in 1995, two years after Secret of Mana did. There was a bit of controversy that Secret of Evermore prevented Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana 2, which is awesome) from hitting the consoles in the US. It's generally not true, as Nintendo was trying to promote the N64 as quickly as possible to the point that they halted a lot of the games from reaching the US, including Densetsu 3. There are a lot of nice hacks for Evermore to help out in its balancing and leveling issues. In many ways, Secret of Evermore is a nice change of pace in gameplay and story when compared to Mana.
I love how the box art lies about the graphics. This is such a 90's thing where the box art looks nice, then the games are....not like it. I guess because of limitations the technology had at the time. Lol
what's the song that starts at 44:52? i can't find it, just realized that's the mini boss theme... man give us download links PLEASE, these remastered versions should be on a MSU-1 HACK!!
@@Angel13691 sometime soon I would like to get my stuff set up again and make more of these, then I could post the links. I'd even like to redo this video but make the songs come in in chronological order. Just takes time which is something I don't have a lot of lately
@@hell_pike9150 i would love to hear it, i know how much time these things can take don't worry, i am replaying this game right now with my 9 years old kid
You can download them online. Just look for the secret of evermore MIDI files. Then you can use pot player or anvil Studio to open them... There's also some good MIDI to MP3 conversion software out there as well as online converters
I'm fairly confident that it was in the credits... It's such a beautiful song. I want to say it was somewhere else in the game but I can't remember where
One thing I could have done better with this compilation, I should have arranged the songs in some kind of order. Maybe like chronological order from where they appear in the game
@@Ielnar I wonder if I delete this video and upload another version with all the songs in chronological order, I wonder if it will have the same fan base. This video is one of my highest performing videos on the channel which is kind of funny because there are for example secret of mana high quality and it has 600 views. This one has 11k
I think that is Fields of Gothica on the original soundtrack, its hard to tell because this 'upscaled' version completely wrecks the original feel, only upside is the original had the background sounds (engine noises, birds singing, ect) baked into the background music but I still strongly prefer the original soundtrack.
if you like Crosscode and SoM you'll definitely like the soundtrack for the "Bloodstained" series, it's an homage to retro games like Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania, 'Bloodstained Ritual of the Night' is a Metroidvania, while the 'Bloodstained Curse of the Moon' games play more like Ninja Gaiden with platforming, boss fights at the end of every level, and sub-weapons. All of them have INSANE retro-inspired NES chip soundtracks (in the cause of Ritual of the Night it has a soundtrack very stylistically like "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night")
Different from what? This music was composed in MIDI format for a super Nintendo video game made in 1995 I think. Secret of evermore. It's a fantastic game. What I did to make this video, I took the MIDI songs and converted them to mp3 using a sound font. The purpose of older video games using MIDI is because it requires a lot less file space. Most super Nintendo games are only about 15 megabytes or so. Now it's more modern technology the notes and instruments in MIDI format can be represented with higher fidelity instruments. Different sound fonts have different styles that people can apply, so if you don't like this one there could be better ones out there
I have such a love hate relationship with this game. The music, characters, dialog and overall story are outstanding! The mechanics and gameplay though... such a frustrating and cryptic play through. I beat it during last summer's SNES RPG-a-thon, and Chrono Trigger (the next on the list) was downright easy to beat compared to this one. I'm about 15ish hours into EVO now and am feeling a similar frustration like SoE. I really want to like it. The story's great and the overall idea for the game is brilliant, but the music and mechanics make me want to puke. If you are curious about playing SoE, I'd check out a review for it first.
@@blacklabel130 emulator for sure. Just not my bag. Playing FF5 on GBA atm and it’s fantastic. Not FF6 fantastic but still worth a play through. I’m saying that SoE is definitely unique but very frustrating if you’re used to typical JRPGs. Which makes sense since it’s an American game!
Some of the puzzles are very difficult, but once you learn to level up your alchemy you can blaze through the game. You just have to spend some time leveling your alchemy. I especially lean in on leveling up spells that only require one ingredient instead of two, that way you can hold 99 charges of that spell. For example that fist thing that comes out of the air
The trick to surviving this game is to always play as the dog and keep your attacks charged at Max level, and use the boy for alchemy offensive attacks and heals to doggo
