Friday Night Funkin': B-Side Remixes
is a Game Mod that turns the demo build of Friday Night Funkin' into what is effectively a "B-Side" for the game, with all characters and most assets being recolored and all songs getting remixed.
On September 16th, 2022, the mod received the first wave of its "Redux" overhaul, which turns the recolors into more original character designs and redoes the remixes to bring it up to par with other remix mods.
B-Side contains the following tropes:
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Both
- Adapted Out:
- Classic has no remix for "Monster", leaving Week 2 with just two songs.
- Subverted: in Redux, the third song of Week 2 begins with Skid and Pump, leading the player to think Monster has been removed in favor of a new song for the spooky kids, only for the screen to Smash to Black and reveal he is still very much present.
- Palette Swap: To sell it as a "B Side", all of the characters sprites are the same, just with different colors, such as Boyfriend going from red and blue to pink and purple. For Skid and Pump in particular, they swap colors with each other, so now Pump is white and Skid is orange. In Redux, these designs were made more unique, though still stick to the core idea of a Palette Swap by not diverging too far from the originals.
- Mythology Gag:
- Week 2 in Redux takes place in a "phantom arcade" — Phantom Arcade, of course, being one of the creators behind the original Friday Night Funkin'.
- The original "Shiver" was a song made by a composer for the mod, JADS, unrelated to B-Side and meant as another song for Skid and Pump back when "Monster" was unimplemented in the base game.
- Pico's colorscheme in Classic is taken from Otis, Pico's cousin and star of the game of the same name. In Redux his outfit is changed, but he now sports the toothgap from Mindchamber's design for Pico used in works such as Pico Unloaded and Newgrounds Rumble.
- In addition to the NG on his shoes that the canon Boyfriend has, Redux Boyfriend has the Angry Faic symbol on the bottom half of his soles.
- Shout-Out:
- The Classic "South" remix samples the "Past" voice-clip from Sonic the Hedgehog CD towards the end.
- Monster's new design in Redux has large pointed horns and a permanent sharp-toothed grin: when combined with him being fought in an arcade, it brings to mind Lemon Demon and his song "Cabinet Man".
- Replacing the stock scary faces in the arcade cabinets during "Shiver" are the bopping heads of Corrupted Boyfriend.
- Boyfriend's Redux redesign gives him soap shoes ala Sonic in Sonic Adventure 2. To go with BF, Pico's shoes are changed resemble Shadow's.
- The last minute of "Stress" changes into a remix of "Mos Thoser", a song used by the devs of the original game to troll the fanbase back when Week 7 was still in development.
Redux
- Adaptational Badass: Rather than just let herself be held hostage as in the original game, Girlfriend pulls out a spiked bat during "Guns" and smashes it into the faces of approaching bikers.
- Adaptational Job Change: Tankman goes from being the captain of an army to the leader of a biker gang. Likewise, his soldiers are instead other members of his gang.
- Adaptational Location Change:
- Week 2 takes place at a haunted arcade rather than a spooky house.
- Week 7 takes place outside a tavern rather than in the middle of a warzone, to fit with Tankman and his platoon now being a biker gang rather than a soldier troop.
- Anachronic Order: The Wave 1 update includes the tutorial, Week 1, Week 2, and Week 7, skipping Weeks 3-6 for them to be added at a later date.
- Bait-and-Switch: "Tutorial" begins with Girlfriend saying directions as per usual: at her third turn she instead begins singing, and does so for the rest of the song.
- Bait-and-Switch Boss "Shiver" begins with Skid and Pump, like "Spookeez" and "South". After the second verse, the screen cuts to black and Monster begins singing, revealing who the song is truly against.
- Batter Up!: When Tankman's bikers try to take her hostage during "Guns", Girlfriend pulls out a bat spiked with nails and clobbers them all with it.
- Creator Cameo: The team behind the mod are visible in the windows of the tavern during Week 7.
- Funny Background Event:
- During "Guns", Girlfriend pulls out a bat and begins swinging at the bikers trying to take her hostage.
- In "Stress", Pico hops onto the speakers and shoots at approaching bikers, like the original game. Towards the song's end, one catches him by surprise and the two fight on top of the speakers.
- Hostile Show Takeover: Even more so than the original game; where vanilla Monster gets the third song of Week 2 to himself, in Redux he takes over "Shiver" from Skid and Pump a few turns in.
- HP to One: In "Shiver", Boyfriend's health gets put at one during two points: the first is when Monster appears, and the second is at the tail end of the song, which is followed by a few extra notes from Boyfriend.
- Meaningful Background Event: After the scene transition in "Dad Battle", Girlfriend's right eye gains the same yellow glow her father's eyes have.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Girlfriend gains a panicked expression and Blank White Eyes when two bikers pop up behind her holding knives at the start of "Guns".
- Pico goes from his normal cocky demeanor to a shocked look moments before a biker jumps onto the speakers and tries to wrestle him off it in "Stress".
- Running Gag: Redux's music has fun taking cues from the original songs and Classic's remixes and then subverting expectations, such as Girlfriend actually singing during "Tutorial", the second beatbox segment in "Fresh" being extended and leading back into more singing, and Monster's takeover during "Shiver".
Classic
- Cameo Cluster: In addition to a handful of cameos originating from the vanilla game, multiple creators and characters from the modded universe make their appearance in the second floor of the mall during Week 5. Including, but not limited to: Tricky, Hex, Carol, and Whitty.
- Have We Met?: Senpai's dialogue deviates from the original game by cutting his usual spiel in "Senpai" short with "hmmmm, you seem quite familiar. Have we perhaps met somewhere before?", as if their encounter was not the first one.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: In "Roses", Senpai's eyes become distinctly yellow upon getting angry. While Senpai himself may not necessarily be supernatural in any way, the one trapped inside him, Spirit, most definitely is.
