【SNES】ActRaiser - Fillmore :: Act 1 - PC engine cover【Deflemask】

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Published on February 10, 2019 11:23:38 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIM2HQGnsNI

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ActRaiser (1990)

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I've been wanting to cover this song for an eternity and a half, but I've only just gotten around to it...

I've heard this song being described as "The best Castlevania song that was never in a Castlevania game", and honestly, I couldn't agree enough, it would fit in perfectly with that series! I even contemplated setting this cover to footage of some Castlevania game, perhaps Castlevania Rebirth? But I decided against it in the end because that would take away the spotlight from this amazing and unique game.

ActRaiser is nothing short of a cult classic, and one of the most unique games ever conceived, who'd have thought of mixing an Action Platformer with a god-simulator a-la Populous?
I'm unsure if this genre mashup was ever tried again after this, but knowing the state of the indie games market at this point, it probably has, and it probably drowned in the flood of roguelikes and metroidvanias, and thus it went under everyone's radar... I don't know, and I'm not exactly in a hurry to find out, but anyway, if you haven't yet played ActRaiser, I'd encourage you to do so! The platforming controls aren't the greatest but they're not bad at all, the game can be a bit on the challenging side later on, but it's likely one of the most interesting gaming experiences you'll have!

As for the song itself, it wasn't exactly difficult to cover, but I had to drop the orch hits, fortunately not much (if any) composition detail was lost in the translation from SNES to PCE, as the orch hits were mostly just repeating whatever the lead organ was playing...
For this one I used mostly instruments from Magical Chase (which I often do) as well as a couple of custom wavetables in the background, there's nothing fancy going on in here, it's a pretty straight-forward song actually, it's just *really* well composed! I'd only expect as much from Yuzo Koshiro, honestly, this is probably my favourite soundtracks from him, either this or Etrian Odyssey 3, it depends on my mood...

Enjoy!

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