Tor (Iji) - GaMetal Remix 

Thanks guys, couldn't have done it without your great amazing composition! :)

Okay, you know VERY well you've done good when the original creators of the song and the game it's from stop by to praise you. Congratulations, Jonny!

Hell yeah HyperDucks! I interviewed the dev for Racketboy when Iji came out. Still would happily pay $20 for an Iji remastered album download! I know that was in the cards for a while there, but it never happened. This music deserves proper stereo sound at least.

Anime crossover lol

This is definitely one of the best arrangements on the channel, thanks to the original notes as well as from the superbly substantive sound upgrade! Be proud!

Oh, and don't forget that he learns during the fight and every time an attack hits you, he's more likely to use it on you.

@@slavkei That's super interesting! Never knew that.

Damn. Getting the attention and praise by the game and music creator. That was a good remix ^^

Oh hey you're here so I can actually comment this directly in a reply to you! This game is,. to me, a masterpiece of game design. Every single thing you can possibly do to potentially break the game seems to be thought of and is an easter egg. Any area you think you can sneakily get to that you aren't supposed to be has a reward of some sort for reaching it. There's even a boss where you can, through an incredibly convoluted process, fight him three times without getting a game over, and he gets more and more frustrated each time. An easter egg you added because someone found it and told you about it, no less! I'm just constantly blown away by the attention to detail and the continual honing you put into this game. But all of that would be largely forgettable, a well done but ultimately not too memorable side scrolling platformer, if it weren't for the story and characters. Even the characters you never meet all have their own voice and their own stories, unfolding as you play through the logs you discover. That's what absolutely makes Iji a masterpiece to me. Even the joke characters are written with enough personality that they all feel like different people. The writing and story underlying the game are what keeps me going back to play it over and over, to experience that story again and again, and that amazing writing is only boosted further by the fantastic score. The final showdown on the rooftops is the single most memorable final boss encounter I've ever experienced. It's not the hardest, it's not the longest, but it is the one that sticks with me the most. I only found out about this game at the beginning of the year, and I'm thrilled that I got to experience it. Thank you for giving us the option to save the Tasen survivors. I know it's an ultimately futile gesture, but there's a soft spot in my heart for background characters who would normally be thrown away the instant their role in a story is complete, and an inevitable love for writers who treat those characters with respect. Rock on.

​@@slavkei Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you liked the game!

OH MY GOSH THE MAN HIMSELF! Making Undertale-style gameplay before it was even popular!

@@piers1796 I was just thinking that, although his genocide route doesn't go as far 😅

It is. It so is. Gonna go play through it again BRB!

That's deep

So basically space Kefka? Cool

Not quite. The motivations of the antagonists in _Iji_ are a lot more complex than Kefka from _Final Fantasy VI._ Feel free to check out the game for yourself. It's free, so the only thing that you have to spend is time.

TFW you don’t get a missle pony from your favorite assassin/train

I disagree in the more complex part though on the surface he is simple, but motivation wise entirely different.

DrOdd sector 3 stands out in need although the boss theme too. hero though already has machinae supremacys actual version

_WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL!_

I loved "3 cans later"

The general approves

I don't remember a god damned thing about this game other than this song. I even played it recently and it still feels like a new game to me.

Belatedly, would you say it was breath-taking?

Hope you unlocked true ending.

I straight downloaded it off his site and swapped it in, replacing the actual battle theme in game. IT SO GOOD.

i know that feeling, lol

I think this song uses three time signatures. 7/4, 5/4 and 3/4

@@TheOriginalAspie Oh heck, it keeps switching? Like Marx? That's crazy, even CRAZIER to work with. Two years old, but still, MUCH respect.

CS1 tors theme is the most underrated final boss theme of all time, period

The will to save what you once knew and loved despite it’s near nonexistence can motivate someone a lot, Like wanting geno for smash :’(

@@nomo3457 F

Vs playing Tennis with the boss.

@@centurosproductions8827 It seems to be a theme in shockingly good indie titles. Iji, ZeroRanger, I need to play more good indie games so I can have more examples for this list...

*One reflecty gal

What about the high quality download on the website of Iji, right after the game download link ?

nah, sadly even they kinda suck quality-wise, we didn't know what we were doing when it came to mixing and.. stuff back then, sadface

HyperDuck SoundWorks i kinda like the rough sound of OST.

@@HyperDuck Hey at least, y'all made something good, even for this game, and the next tracks will be even better now since you know better lmao

@@HyperDuck I did not even realize who did the music. Mind = blown

Larry Butz How not to make me want to play a game: call it either “the original Undertale” or “the better Undertale.” I cannot think of a more effective way to set my standards higher than I know the game could possibly meet.

Bob Stayoffthegrass Who said it’s “better?” I’m just saying it did the thing before, like an indirect precursor to it. If it’s “better” or not is subjective; hence, why I want people to play it, to judge it. I get the hate for the whole Undertale or Dark Souls analogies, but in terms of ideas it was going for, I’m just saying Iji implemented them before. That’s pretty much a fact rather than conjecture, albeit it’s handled in a different direction. Again, I want thoughts on that when someone gets around to it. *Iji is Dark Souls of hipster content*

Everything did Undertale before Undertale. As much as I enjoyed the game and had fun playing it, I cannot call it original. It took parts directly from other game series, heck even it's story and character are quite similiar to Cave Story, another game that Undertale was heavily inspired by.

(Keep in mind that what’s written below may spoil your experience if anyone ever decide to play, so don’t read if you want a fresh take on it. Can alter your whole take while playing. Personally I wish I didn’t know when I played :y ) Hmm, I guess what I meant was it’s main draw or appeal, the thing that brought so much attention to it. The whole “direct, but choice-is-not-an-apparent-option morality” and the issues therein from physically being the one to alter the game on a heavy layer. Games like Lisa focused on moral issues as well, but never typically managed a *direct* form of it. Either it was “Say yes and do thing” or “Say no and whoops he dead” or something like that. Lisa sought to achieve the opposite effect of that in their own method, with legitimately game-impacting consequences of your decisions, while Undertale did story-impacting decisions, but on a grand scheme level. Both did something crazy in their own right. The whole point of the shock factor that you always had a choice, but you didn’t actually notice/act upon common morals, that’s even invoked and called upon in-game. Few games tried this out at the time, like... Metal Gear Solid in some instances, I guess?? There’s a reason people flocked to Undertale when they played it or wanted to see other people stream/experience it, and that’s not necessarily for gameplay, but what the game itself does. Granted, Iji isn’t as meta, of course. Totally get your guys’ sentiments.

I actually quite like what Iji did with the whole thing. I'll put what I mean after a spoiler, just like Larry - I went in blind, personally, and then went and unlocked everything. I've got a save with the Null Driver, for example, just to mess around; if you know what that is, you'll know what I went through to get it. And when I say spoiler, I mean it. Morality is the name of the game, my dudes. In level 3, you start in an empty area, and go down an elevator into a room full of Tasen guards. However, if by that point you haven't killed anyone, or at most five Tasen to my recollection, you'll get the option to attempt a pacifist run of that level without any Tasen actively getting in your way, AI quirks and accidentally guarding jumps notwithstanding. None of them will shoot at you unless you accidentally touch one of them or shoot first. One of their own, Vatelika I think her name is, explicitly tells you so right after you get down the elevator. Right near the end of the level you'll find some new units you've never seen before, with weird body structure and new logbook shapes - these are not Tasen. They are the Komato, they will shoot, and they are fair game. Right after the Komato, though, you'll find a single blue Tasen guarding a locked box. This one's no different from the rest in terms of AI, short of having spread rockets if I remember correctly, but if you kill her, a logbook in level 8 changes. Regardless, if you keep your pacifist run to the end of level 3, you'll skip the boss, because Vatelika comes in with an MPFB and kicks his ass in one shot. Your in-game time takes a 10 minute hit, but that's only a problem for speedrunners, since there are no unlockables tied to completion time. Additionally, the ribbons. They're hallucinations. Miss one, and you won't be able to find any more on that save file. You can't find them in the single sector modes.

I fkcing love Metal Slug 5's OST

*YES!!!! PLEASE!!!!!* *EVERYONE!!! GIVE HIM MORE LIKES SO THAT JONNY ATMA SEES THIS!!!!!*

:D

Yeah why was it private?

Jonny will probably make a comment why, because i don't know either tbh

Because RU-vid sometimes does a weird thing where when you upload something it sometimes just makes the video private for a little while for no discernable reason.

If in doubt, blame RU-vid.

I found out about Iji because of Tor's head being an easter egg in the last level of Risk of Rain. I wanted to know more and downloaded the game. I kept failing at sector 6, I have to go back and try again. Innocent or bust!

Update: Finally did it. Beat the game as Innocent. Tears were shed. 10/10. Never once felt frustrated or cheated, just felt like I needed to get better or actually pay attention and learn layouts. Goddamn that game is a masterpiece of game design. Every single thing you can possibly do to potentially break the game is thought of and is an easter egg. Any area you think you can sneakily get to that you aren't supposed to be has a reward of some sort for reaching it. There's even a boss where you can, through an incredibly convoluted process, fight him three times without getting a game over, and he gets more and more frustrated each time. But all of that would be largely forgettable, a well done but unimpressive side scrolling platformer, if it weren't for the story and characters. Even the characters you never meet all have their own voice and their own stories, unfolding as you play through the logs you discover. Fuck, I hope he writes another game's story with the depth and character he put into Iji.

God yes.

The one from the second game is the best one Change my mind

Oh Sonny? All i remember from it as a kid is that i played the first game, then chapter 3 rekt me so hard.

I mean, the nanofield kind of is invisible armor. More than kind of, it literally is an invisible cloud of adaptive armor...

Honestly, I feel like Iji is more of a realistically portrayed character with depth of feeling, whereas Samus was always just this badass space fighter chick. Iji will always be better in my heart. This coming from a huge metroid fan.

@@HTMangaka Iji is some random teen who was visiting work with her dad, everything went white, and she wakes up to basically everyone she's ever known except for her brother long dead, and herself turned from a regular girl into a combat cyborg. It's a miracle she got up again after realizing the truth and collapsing from the weight of it. Samus is a trained soldier and bounty hunter, with years and years of combat experience. The two really aren't comparable as protagonists, Samus is a professional doing her job well, Iji is some kid living in a nightmare and having to fight her way through it. Both tell good stories, but they are very different stories. About the only thing they share in common is that they're both women.

When you put it like that, I think my earlier post was a little off. Iji is WAY better a character than I stated. Honestly, to have a random regular person kick that much butt. She's a combat PRODIGY!

@@HTMangaka I dunno what you mean, my Iji never killed anyone and mostly blew herself up! :D

I want a missile pony.

NO! ITS THE LASER AIMING THINGIES FROM THE INTRO CUTSCENE!

HONK >:(

You got that right! I got hot drink coupons riding on this one - check THIS out!

you should sub to him bro