Line #5 AwesomeMusic/CaveStory


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6	!!Original Soundtrack
7	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-aitfK7jRE The main theme]] is a cheery tune that plays over the title screen, setting you up for your fun adventure. Until [[MoodWhiplash things go south]], of course. Even then, the song's unexpected reuse in the Plantation helps to bring the game full circle, and the amount of time spent there subverts LongSongShortScene--allowing you to hear the song briefly turn discordant just before it loops.
8	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h5gRnY9Gt0 Mimiga Town]], home to the eponymous [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable rabbit-like creatures]], has appropriately friendly music for the game's HubLevel.
9	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjdBEazKzZY Gestation]] plays when you are exploring the first cave, and it tells you that you have started an adventure full of emotions. But it's even better when you return to get the Spur, it sounds really nostalgic.
10	* LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab, who did a LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', says "Anyone who doesn't love [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzC6WZImGY the Outer Wall music]] is a monster."
11	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_wJMoTnZRc White,]] King's theme song, barely sliding into the actual game as a secret track.
12	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtxp70tVHyM Running Hell]], A track that starts out with a dramatic severity before segueing into an energetic and heroic sound.
13	* [[https://youtu.be/4zW7Dmx9WYQ Last Battle]], an adrenaline pumping tune that carries all the intensity a final fight should have.
14	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGZnDvI4NY Living Waterway]], a tune that manages to be both bouncy and mellow, relaxing and unsure at the same time.
15	* [[https://youtu.be/1SgBffK9Phg Labyrinth Fight]], which plays within Labyrinth M alongside Curly while destroying everything in your path.
16	* The kickass [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-RdTjI5bmg Wind Fortress]], which is unfortunately a CutSong. The actual Wind Fortress level makes an appearance as an unlockable challenge in ''Cave Story+'', with this song as the background music.
17	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMlebxoG4E Geothermal]], especially when you first hear it upon entering the Core. It has a sense of grandness, exploration and curiosity.
18	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tbQk3O5_t8 Charge]] is one of the best boss themes you'll ever find in any game. It also happens to be ''less than fifteen seconds long''.
19	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K_Z1_tfGGw Oppression]] is also the best boss theme in this game which plays at one of this game's ThatOneBoss. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CABQM-rk-so The beta version of this]] is also kickass even though it lasts about 30 seconds.
20	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtnjrrXMDU Quiet]] is NightmareFuel, and that's the ''point''. It hammers home that terrible things are happening on the island, the areas that this track plays in being forcibly vacated of their residents being one of them, with one of those areas being Mimiga Village, which has been turned from a bustling Mimiga capital to a GhostTown.
21	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl4zdG47qFk Plant]] (Yamashita Farm) is probably the most underrated track in the entire game, thanks in no part to the farm's only purpose being MrsExposition and a single [[HeartContainer Life Capsule]]. Yet Pixel chose to give the area unique music instead of recycling "Mimiga Town", and it's as beautiful as chiptune music can be. The gentle melody and rocking arpeggios underneath give it an lullaby-like quality that's appropriate for an early-game area before all hell breaks loose.
22	%%* Eyes Of Flame.
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24	!!Official remixes
25	* The Wii port was criticized for its poor re-arrangement of the soundtrack. So they made a new improved version. Some standouts:
26	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31dHd8kYdsQ Balrog's Theme]] is slower than the original version, but manages to make Balrog sound more menacing while still remaining silly.
27	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWCCOnTXN48 Gravity]]. You didn't know what was missing until you've heard this.
28	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBSv5ewodI8 Meltdown 2]] sounds much, much better in the new fixed rearrangement.
29	* ''Cave Story 3D'' has some pretty awesome remixes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp9nGccaPNE Last Cave]] was already a great piece on its own, but the ''Cave Story+/Cave Story 3D'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOK2ZJK7dO0 remastered version]] takes the track to whole new levels with an epic sax lead, truly embodying the sheer determination and resilience that was required from both Quote and the player to overcome the game's challenges, both story and gameplay-centric, culminating in a tense but empowering atmosphere leading up to the fight with the Doctor which makes dragging yourself through the Hidden Last Cave in particular so much more bearable.
30	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBqE9xMJtMc On to Bushlands.]]
31	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEVo7kqUOCM Plantation.]]
32	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8CYBL1DCs Last Battle]] is totally epic.

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