Back in middle school, I went over to my friend who had a GameCube's house with a cassette tape ready to record this one for frequent listening. Hearing it again, especially after original Mach Rider footage, it's such a clever composition! It combines so many different sections in such a short time with expert fluidity! This was definitely an influence on my taste for "Thank You For The Gopher"-type freeform.
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Been listening to a lot of SaGa lately (thanks in part to CDR), and since all roads lead to Betwixt, I had the best remix of one of my favorites already. This is one I'd have binge-listened in 2004 if I knew about it; it's exactly what I'd have gone for back then and it'd be nice to think he and I searched for a MIDI around the same time. Extra points for a fitting new title: Desperate!!
Looking back to when I first got into freeform, Alabaster's Santuario remains the most uplifting track I've heard at this tempo. With the restrained high end and never sounding overproduced, it makes me curious to discover (or create) more like it.
Any Mastodon followers been playing #Deltarune ? Chapter 3 is simply one of my favorite games I've ever played, blending a minigame-based structure with sudden dips into heartbreaking tension. Chapter 4 rushes the story forward with a barrage of deep atmospheres and surreal boss encounters. One of its biggest strengths is the soundtrack, spanning from kid's game show tunes to emotion-packed battle themes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKXdyINOQYsaHwm4rJ0QDFzsaZQNQjF0U
