9/10. Great stuff, though I usually find myself revisiting Movement 4 over the others.
8/10. Banger, but two points off for the fact that I have Audacity and should not be trusted with it. Long story short, I can’t unhear the Bill Nye the Science Guy theme song when listening to this. (I wish we could share non-image files in these forums because I would share the monstrosities I create with you.)
7.5/10. Not the most enthralling, but a nice low-key sound.
9/10: Has a nice beat and also feels relaxing to me.
...Numeric Rankings Fail To Do Justice To This Piece: I want you Tropers to think about video game history as you know it, what it meant to do the songs that these consoles provided. For historical context, if you will, picture what we were going off from at first: the NES. The 8-Bit console. The beeps, the boops, the crunches, the static, these consoles, if they had music at all, it was primitive... which isn't to say that didn't have its own appeal people would recapture years later, but there is a gap between the beeps and boops of the past, and literal freaking orchestral pieces being slotted into the music of today. And one must ask... at WHAT point had that transition been marked?
Nobody was certain at first when the SNES and Sega Genesis consoles first dropped... Super Mario World, it was largely music from Koji Kondo's keyboard, games like the Sonic series were making good work from the limited capabilities of the Sega Genesis soundchip... but if you were doing something with crisper quality, well... sure, SURE... maybe the Sega CD add-on gave the kind of crystal clean sound quality that gave the first glimpses into what video game music would eventually become... but that still needed an external add-on source to make that happen... but, hold on, what is this... opera music playing in the background?
Enter: Nobuo Uematsu. A mad genius of a man to begin with, one of the most legendary musicians in video game history... there were a few Squaresoft RPGs that popped off with already fantastic tracks to begin with... but let's face it, the Super Nintendo soundchip wasn't that much better than that of the Sega Genesis. The Sega Genesis soundchip, regarding art tool metaphors, was playing with crayons, whereas the Super Nintendo was oil pastels... Nobuo Uematsu used oil pastels to paint the Sistine Chapel, with a fucking OPERA that they crafted before our eyes and ears!!
1994 is one of the most important years in Video Game Music history, with every single revolutionary advancement it brought to the table. It feels, from this pivotal year in gaming history... that what was holding musicians back... was unlocked. That something clicked with them. Maestros, left and right, emerging from the woodworks, crafting masterpieces that would bring beautiful music to our ears for generations to come... but if I am to give this a score... what score, exactly, do you THINK I'm going to give this?
13/10.
Nice transition from cutesy to intense. Digging both instrumentals. Never played DK but probably should. Music seems good.
8/10
Edited by AoeAbility on Apr 7th 2025 at 10:47:48 AM
You keep using the term "POV". I do not think it means what you think it means.7/10. Well-composed, though I'm not a sucker for ambient tracks unless they're short.
Edited by RWBYraikou888 on Apr 7th 2025 at 1:53:14 PM
Orcus on His Throne will always be my pet peeve.4 / 10. At the time, the SNES was already out, and C64 was antique compared to what Uematsu did with FF 4 and Koshiro did with Actraiser. Even among 8-bit songs, its repetitive, lacking many of the innovations mid and late NES songs had.
7/10. As Mega Man tracks (or tracks inspired by it) go, this one fits very well among them, but I feel something is missing, not sure what. Maybe the audio is not crunchy enough? I like my music with a bit of tooth.
Edited by AoeAbility on Apr 9th 2025 at 11:07:58 AM
You keep using the term "POV". I do not think it means what you think it means.alr live blind reaction time:
- this beginning is already not doing it for me 😭
- is this ritual music??????
- DRUM JUMPSCARE
- ok it sounds like it's building up to something
- vocal not-exactly-jumpscare-but-it-is-sudden
- ...ok i think i can see where the rest of the track goes
eh? like, i'm sure it's good for the purpose it serves, but it's not really what i'm looking for in a song. decent like 5/10.
8/10. Hot damn; I was not expecting a rock track out of Fire Emblem.
taking this as someone who has never played Live A Live, outside of the short demo:
- considering the title, it's... certainly fitting, feels unsettling and sort of sounds like something you'd hear in a church and all that
- considering the system and the timeframe this was released in, it's definitely held back by its time, but it manages to make something good out of it!
- on both of those, however, i was assuming this would be a boss theme, considering Squeenix's propensity for just... naming boss themes after the boss, and i was surprised by the fact that it's just a character theme, but that's on me!
overall: for what it is, it's pretty good! more ominous and unsettling than really threatening per se, but hey, fits the situation. i just personally think it's a little boring. and short. loops way too quickly. 8/10.
other sidenote
Welcome, my little friend! Or should I say...friends?7/10, it is perfectly serviceable as a song to think about what to do next, but I'm not gonna jam out to this very hard like I would with other songs in the game, let alone the series.
Destiny from Yakuza 6. Where it plays:
The legend has returned.8/10 Never played this game yet, But it feels great and catch for a Final Boss theme.
Here is one of the most Memed songs in Video Game history:
8/10. Great composition, though the SNES' soundfont holds it back from being amazing compared to its Smash 64 remix.
9/10, reminds me of those old flash games.

Oh look, a Snowcone! (Or maybe?)
This is a Snowclone to Rate The Song Above You
, But... Instead of regular songs, We're doing Video Game music! Here, you take a song from a Video Game, then the next poster rates it from 1-10, then posts another song, and then the loop goes on... (Awesome Music entries are also allowed!)
Anyways, Let's start as usual: