Strong One Remix - Masked Man Smashified Theme (Mother 3) 

Simple explanation: his death

I *can*

So in other words, instead of you missing all your attacks you just keep missing the A button over and over, resulting in you running out of Hp due to the live HP gauge?

lmao-

@Atoy 1234 ihrs REEEAAALLLY????? i didnt know!

Very interesting rating system

StairFacts that's top heavy

Nice ref to the time signature

I think its closer to a 71907/40120

@@uzmk_mato are you serious?

Inside The absolutely safe capsule

Huh, Duster's Hypno Pendulum does BRRRRRRRR

@@user-id3fc8qs7y sorry, Is Safe... 😭

Try using your beam saber instead of your beam spray gun

you underestimate my power

WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOORRRRR!?!?!

Blu Toonz be glad they know mega man, everyone in my school only knows fortnite

@@shyguy85 OH I KNOW THIS FEELING!

CLAUS!

*O o f*

Syntax Error nintendo has a lot of balls to treat mother 3 like it is today. having a tiny refrence of the masked man on a t-shirt on a lucas skin is terrible. I believe that claus/the masked man should be a fighter in smash, not to be a clone of ness, but to be its own entity.

I can imagine him being a versatile unit mixing the fighting styles of Lucas, Megaman and Marth (or any swordman).

*Ness:* Hey Lucas! Look at that awesome T-shirt I got! It has a Mr. Saturn stamp! What is the stamp on yours? *Lucas:* **SOBBING LOUDLY**

@@stevepensando2593 Lucas: *sobbing hArD* bBaBy dRago???

@@M1RACLEWEAVER that's my alt and I think that lucas wouldn't be crying over it I mean he literally used the baby drago to chuck fassad so idk

Yeah it's great, perfectly encapsulates the vibe of the final fight, the just.. disheartened, quiet confusion and heartbreak of being faced off against the masked man, who you now definitely know the identity of, but you still don't want to believe it.

Schrodinger's chimera....

Nah I'm pretty sure that's just dead

Until the end I really thought Claus just went all nihilist or whatever and voluntarily joined Porky. But nah, he's just a cyborg corpse puppet.

Claus is a mechanical Chimera

I'm gonna say he's about 72% dead.

Phil Rivers him, Duster, or kumatora and I will bawl

@@yawdraw223 Porky and I'd be satisfied,there is no porky spirit after all

Porky

I'd scream

_PORKY_

Spoiler police here. We're going to have to give you a heads up. Next time you post something about a reveal, at least add a spoiler warning. Thank you for your time.

You rock, Sven.

@@dasuperbeefman oh was that warning about the masked man being who he is or is it from the completely unrelated claus' instrument? His instrument isnt a spoiler but the _completely_ unrelated masked man being who he is would make sense so I'm just asking.

@@kirbyfreakyt4695 yes it was about the masked man's identity. Because, if a fan thought too hard about it before they finish the game so that they would know who he was before the ending, which would kind of ruin the shock value at the end

@@dasuperbeefman it was a sheik being who sheik is moment except 100000000000000000000000000000000% easier to see through lol

Nicholas Le nobody cares for the name. Even I call it as "Pigmask Theme"

Wait... It's actually "battle against masked man"!?! I think it was cave theme from mother 2 all along!!!

@@Tenma_Superstar it is actually the mother 3 love theme, but highly distorted, and its a part of Battle against the masked man

@@areallygoodname8642 i guess really nobody doesn't care for the name, since the user you replied to deleted their comment and i have no idea what name they were referring to was anyways

i'll do it

mother 2+2

@@nintendoshamecube6458 do it. no balls

mother 3 remake would be hard because of its anesthetics

r.i.p. kid icarus only alive through smash, and mid tier

I will love earthbound and kid icarus forever...

Masked man???? Do you know how many times you've killed me??? Don't you feel guilty???

F-zero

FeeF Found you!

not a lot of competition though still pretty good imo

im sorry man. hands down the beta mix is the best.

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Thanks for the kind words! =) I know what you mean by melancholic. At one point I was listening to this while driving and it made me feel like there was some kinda of horrible event was taking place around me. It was interesting to say the least. =P

Update thank you for pinning my comment

Yep

along with the character.

The Masked man background appears in Lucas's final smash.

It’s comin’!

u don’t know mother

Thanks, that's super flattering! I'm glad I was able to bring something new to the song! It was very much inspired by other boss fight themes like the FF7 boss theme, and the music from the final world in Kirby Crystal Shards. A lot of people have tweeted at me letting me know that they modded the song into Smash 4. =P

Artsy Omni hehe nice!!! and no problem!! this is absolutely amazing indeed!!! (that's why i need it in sm4sh on new pork city)

okay, I'm not saying this just to flatter you but I've listened to this for 4-5 hours straight. do I need help?

I have to admit, at one point while it was still a work in progress, I listened to it all day. but maybe I had a better excuse. XP

lol yup. im just writing and listening to it so i guess its not "just cause i can". when i write i always listen to music. this just so happens to fit every situation, even though usually i switch tracks up to 7 times while writing just one chapter (takes me at least an hour and a half hut usually 2 or 2 and a half hours)

Thanks, Masked Man.

Very cool.

Yes

I would too! He's my 2nd most wanted mother character.

I'd love it if MM was in smash, But like Luigi or Samus I probably wouldn't be able to play him well enough to be considered a main.

I really want Kumatora but I wouldn't mind Masked man but Lucas has not only a alt for Claus but for masked man to

+Silverstyle Kumatora would make more sense as a Lucas alt since she's the one who actually has all of Lucas's special moves. Masked Man's abilities are completely different than Smash Lucas's.

I want Duster in smash

How about this *THE MASKED MAN* _gazes at you!_

I'd give it a 15/8, no, a 29/16.

Nova GP XD nice one

kinda

kinda

where he snaps the bad guys neck?

what about Duster

I would rather have her as a Lucas Alt. Lucas already has much of her PK abilities like PK Freeze, Thunder, and Fire, since he was made to represent his entire party

What about Ninten?

The name you should know oh definitely. I'd probably see him as a Ness alt but a character is what Ninten really deserves to be

Vinster Gaming True

sub2fcon yeah all his moves would be PK thunder but everyone else has a Franklin badge

Captain Frogger Pk Love, Shield killer, lazer beam, ect and 5000 health, super speed.

Masked Dedede no, he can fire a laser beam. It’s one of his moves. The lightning is from the sword.

Masked Dedede plus, he can use all levels of PK Love.

@@Domdotcom799 I could see the Shield Killer being his neutral special (like Marth shield breaker), the Arm Cannon would probably be his side special (maybe chargable for more shots), his Jetpack would be his recovery, and his Electric Shock (not PK Thunder, he doesn't even use it) would be down special. His final smash would probably be his Intense Lightning attack. That's how I think his moveset should look.

I think Porky and/or Giygas would have been cooler

I don't need boss, I need playable.

Masked man would be better as a fighter. They shouldve ported Porky's boss fight from brawl for ness and lucas' classic mode

no he annihilates himself

Oof.

Even better, he annihilates his opponents. But if there ain't any fighter around him when he uses it, he annihilates himself.

how about an intense bolt of lightning that insta KO's everyone but if your opponent is Lucas or Ness it reflects and hits you instead

@@Kukalooka a bolt of lightning that acts like a huge explosion hitting like 75% of the screen and an insta-ko at low percents, but can be blocked. if it's blocked or reflected it kills you instead (in 3+ players it kills anyone who doesnt block or use reflection abilities, auto-blocked with franklin badge). if it's dodged with the dodge button or you are far enough away nothing happens (nobody was there to reflect the lightning back)

that was my son

+Cσωβφγ Flιητ (Norris) and my brother

Lucas and your mother's son... porky how could you do this to him?

+Cσωβφγ Flιητ (Norris) ....I have no father....

the whole gang is here

The best in my opinion is n k cyborg tho

i hope so! i really don't want banjo or geno in

@@deltathedummy2303 Same, I haven't played SMRPG or Banjo Kazooie

@@deltathedummy2303 i have bad news

That would mess up all the combos in an already hard song.

Fernando Banda True. But since I do not combo, I'm only concerned about how good the song sounds.

i was never good at combos in the more difficult songs. let's mention that unfounded revenge and smashing song of praise are kind of difficult to combo to, not to mention rock n roll (spicy & mild). intense guys is okay. i forgot the one theme i almost always got 4+ hit combos on. as for the theme going faster as the boss gets weaker, i would love that (i don't think i got combos anyway, unless it was 2-3 hits from just spamming the attack button lol. especially not on the masked man's version, which is a different tempo)

Cσωβφγ Flιητ dude the two songs you mentioned are the best songs I combo to

Knowan I’m pretty sure it was a different person who made the 3D model I will try to find it

Nice mother series pun (note:mother is japans earthbound

But. Claus knows PSI (at least, PSI love)

Ninten: 3 semiclones?!?/1?1! Giegue: as a character? he's pretty obscure and he's an immobile alien in a tank, now sure how exactly that would translate to a move set Giygas: In earthbound you were essentially fighting the entire backround, maybe with some creativity he can become a reasonable boss (if they even bring boss battles back) Masked Man: alt (although it might spoil the plot twist that claus = masked man, but who cares. King P = porky was already)

particularly unhappy nut Ninten has the most potential to be something different, he could be something like this up = 4th-D slip side = yo-yo down = defense/attack/speed up neutral = brainshock and have his final smash be reminiscent of the commercial [PK beam] as for the other characters I don't rly care honestly i just want ninten in

giygas the cat alien or giyga the obamanaion of evil i think you mean the cat alien

Porky in his Mother 3 mech?Nobody? (or even the one he uses in mother 2,I'm fine with that)

@@Wm7forthewin i mean mother 1 Giegue so yea the cat alien kind of a sad he isnt a spirit :(

I was already thinking a two paragraph argument on why your opinion was wrong before I actually checked that part. Indeed, man. In fucking deed.

Lmfao

that part is the worst!

XenonMoon s

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Masked Man Claus lol wot go back being died

no

Please go back to being a harmless child.

your name is a spoiler lol

@@golarstarborn yeah that's kinda, uh...

Probably because my channel only has 4k subs. =P

it needs moaaar subs

Probly cuz 15/16 of the planet likes fortnite

+Retro Hero 276 Fixed! =D

+Artsy Omni o'matter how hard you try, you can't bring Claus back.

+Kaleb Benton 'o matter*

not even pulling the needles will bring claus back... ripperino

this would be perfect

Jeff is already an Assist Trophy

Duster too

@@TheLudicrousLuv not really

Ryan Prower Wat, is it a truncated triplet?

It's actually extremely apparent, sure if you're not used to very angular odd time signatures you probably won't be able to tell a difference since you'd probably have a hard time following 29/16 in the first place but a third of a 16th note is a rather sizable chunk of time to be missing. If anything the original version is very strong evidence for why complex irrational time signatures do actually serve a valuable purpose in rhythmic theory. Also the actual time signature is 71907/40120 for anyone wondering, which sounds insane but since it doesn't actually contain any 40,120th notes it is quite reasonable for a human to accurately perform with practice.

@@TheSquareOnes I would strongly push back against the idea a "third of a 16th" at this tempo is easy to notice. For all intents and purposes, Strong One (Masked Man) is almost certainly 29/16 meter.

@@Musicombo I may have oversold it a bit a couple years ago, but I do think it's quite easy to notice. There is a video with the original looped for half an hour, go listen to that and just drum straight 16ths with your hands. The tempo isn't that fast so even non-drummers shouldn't struggle too much with that and if nothing else it should be fairly clear a lot of the rhythms are not aligning with your 16th note grid, even if their exact rate relative to that grid is difficult to track. To be fair I am a math rock drummer (albeit trash-tier) and listen to lots of music with odd time signatures, including simpler irrational ones, on a regular basis. So my baseline for what is easy to perceive in terms of rhythm is definitely going to be different from many, but the feel is so "off" that I absolutely believe most people should be able to pick up on it without an unreasonable amount of effort once they know what to listen for. It's similar to quintuplet swing in a way, might require a ton of practice to perform accurately but just about anyone can get into the groove of it almost immediately. This is clearly going in a more extreme, less groove-oriented direction but the core concept of "hey, something very obviously wonky is happening with the note rate" is the same.

@@TheSquareOnes I've been able to line up the 16ths perfectly fine with a 29/16 transcription before though, a la Dan Bruno: danbruno.net/writing/mother3/ For all intents and purposes, 29/16 is correct for this song, and I would argue it makes a lot of *musical* sense in terms of interpreting and playing around with Strong One (Masked Man).

Well..., reggie just left Nintendo

I'm sorry for being an uneducated potato, but who's reggie?

Carter Watkins Reggie *was* the president and CEO of Nintendo of America since 2003

Well, time to wait for the new president to localize it for us.

LOL. I get it

nintendo vs capcom

Protoman > Megaman

Hal labs not nintendo

You are not. I've also seen a few others in some other M3 soundtrack vids.

Sword, shooting beams, flying, pk thunder, pk love