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Hey everyone! I'm back with my last place poll winner, an original fan theme this time: a conceptual final dungeon theme for a hypothetical Xenoblade Chronicles 4!

The themes for Mechonis Field, The World Tree, and Origin are some of my favorite tracks from the Xenoblade series so I wanted to do an original take on an equivalent track for Xenoblade 4 that does them justice. This track of course takes heavy inspiration from the aforementioned themes, but also some inspiration from Xenoblade Chronicles X. I also just like getting the opportunity to make something more atmospheric for a change, it was fun.

Now what exactly is my concept for this area? Well, the 'LOTUS' is effectively a giant orbital strike cannon akin to the Space Colony ARK from Sonic Adventure 2. I imagine that during a pivotal moment in 4's story, the LOTUS will fire at and destroy a location within the game's world that was important to the main cast or their progression in some way. You wouldn't enter it until the ending of the game, however. 

Before the weapon fires, it charges a buttload of Ether by mechanical panels that are on top of the structure which resemble the petal of a lotus flower that "bloom" when the weapon is charging, which is where it gets its name. One small tidbit I imagine is for this to also be a slightly Japanese-inspired area while also being sci-fi focused.

For those of you who are on my Discord, you'll know I stated that I'm into creative writing as well. Well, one of my concepts is for a hypothetical Xenoblade Chronicles 4 including this area. Maybe we'll explore that concept more further down the line, who knows?

Other than that, I hope you guys enjoy this!

Instruments list can be found in the pinned comment.

Xenoblade Chronicles 4 logo by TheNKMaster18 on DeviantArt.

Played in collaboration with Dustin Fichter
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Xenoblade Chronicles | "LOTUS" (Conceptual Xenoblade 4 Final Dungeon Theme) [Ft. Dustin Fichter]

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Hey everyone! This is a track that I've been wanting to do a take on since Deltarune Chapters 3 & 4 came out, but I wanted to wait until I had completed all of the entries on my last poll before I did. 

Figuring out what to do with it was the more difficult part, but I eventually decided to do a Xenoblade-style remix of it. Not sure if it exactly sounds like Xenoblade (the wack time signatures in this make that a bit difficult), but I think it sounds close.

Anyways, enjoy!

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/Sq5GkVrAUis

Deltarune x Xenoblade Chronicles | If The Third Sanctuary was a Xenoblade Area (Fanmade Remix)

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Hey everyone! I'm back with another addition to the Sonic x Genshin project! Out of these, this one was admittedly the easiest to transform into a Sonic theme, mostly because of how overall straightforward the melodies are in it. I did take some creative liberties with the arrangement here, but that's been the case with all of these because I have to simplify each of them to better fit Sonic's style.

Here, I tried to do something similar to what I did with the Liyue stage, 'Jadefall Cliffside', by mixing the region's main theme with Sonic's classic rock style. Like that one, this one takes heavy inspiration from Sonic Unleashed and some from Sonic Forces' modern stages.

If you're wondering, yes I'm splitting Dharma Forest and the Great Red Sand into two stages, one for the forest and one for the desert. This is because I don't feel like those two would blend too well if they were in one stage, and it wouldn't give each of them as much time to shine on their own as well. (It also gives me an excuse to include more Sonic characters in this, so yay). I'm not sure if I will tackle that one or the Nod-Krai stage yet, though. That depends on if I get to it before Nod-Krai releases (which, let's be honest, I probably won't).

As for why I chose Amy and Cream here, Amy was always going to be in Sumeru. This is mostly because I feel like her hammer could have fun interactions in the stage with the mushrooms and other objects you find around Sumeru in Genshin. I chose to add Cream as well because they're often partnered together and I wanted to put her in here somewhere.

Anyways, that's really all there is to say on this one. Enjoy!

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/88yDd3QruNw

Genshin Impact x Sonic | "Verdant Jungle" (If Sumeru [Dharma Forest] was a Sonic level) (Fanmade)

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Hey everyone! Over my break, I have now become a year older. Because I hadn't uploaded on my actual birthday (September 2nd), I decided to consider this upload my late 'birthday special' or whatever you'd like to call it. So...

...Here's a remaster of my first Genshin x Sonic level track; Jadefall Cliffside! I wanted to remaster this before continuing with this project to get it up-to-par with the quality of my more recent ones, such as the recent Verdant Jungle (Sumeru level remix). I thought there were a lot of things in the original that could be improved, especially since I'm much farther along in playing guitar than I was back when I made this initially.

With this remaster, I didn't want to take the integrity of the original song. I wanted to improve upon it and make it better, which is why I didn't add any new sections to it or anything like that. Future remasters could be different depending on what I decide to do with them, though.

In other news, video uploads should be about at least once every two or three days now, as I had originally made this song back in late August and have decided to begin scheduling these videos ahead of time so that you guys can get them more often (even if they can be dated now).

Anyways, thank you all for tuning in! Enjoy!

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Genshin Impact x Sonic | Jadefall Cliffside: Remastered! (If Liyue was a Sonic level)

[REUPLOADED TO FIX ISSUE]

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Hey everyone, I'm back!

This has been a rather hectic week for me, between getting sick with the flu (I'm better now!), having one of my friends visit and dealing with college work, it's safe for me to say that a lot of things got in the way of me finish this when I wanted to. But it's finally here! I promise you won't have to wait this long again for a good while.

This is my second place poll winner. Out of all the Genshin Impact main themes, this one was probably the easiest for me to transform into a Sonic-styled track using Aquarium Park from Sonic Colors as a basis for it. I wanted to mix the feel of Sonic water level tracks with that sort of Bossa Nova jazz feel Rouge's levels have in Sonic Adventure 2, though in my personal opinion the drum and bass overtakes it a little bit. I also wanted to include some things that Fontaine has in its soundtrack, specifically lots of chimes, vocals, and of course the mandolin.

No why did I choose Rouge and Omega for this area? I felt like there was a lot of potential here, and Fontaine just kind of gave me Rouge energy (and yes Spina di Rosina does kind of factor into that, but that's besides the point). Decided to include Omega too because of the fact that he's sort of similar to Fontaine's Meks. I'm surprised nobody guessed these two prior to me releasing this, I thought they were the perfect fit.

Anyways, that's really all there is for me to say about this, so enjoy!

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjFh2_cy-g

Genshin Impact x Sonic | "Regal Ocean" (If Fontaine was a Sonic level) [Fanmade Remix]

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Hey everyone! Here's a remaster that's been a long time coming. I've been wanting to redo this song for a while now, not only to bring it up to the standard of my more modern Xenoblade Chronicles 4 concept themes, but also to finish an originally-planned part in the original I never did: the climax section.

For those that don't know, this theme is my take on what a hypothetical unique monster battle theme for Xenoblade 4 could sound like. It would be the equivalent of tracks like "You Will Know Our Names" or "You Will Reclaim Our Names" for this game. I had the idea of every one of these having "We Will- " in it for Xenoblade 4, 5, and 6 instead of "You Will- " for the original trilogy just to set them apart a bit, since assumedly this would be the beginning of a new saga for the series.

For the climax section, that is a concept introduced in Xenoblade Chronicles 3's battle theme where when a tough battle nears its end, the climax section of the battle theme plays. That concept carries over here to my hypothetical Xenoblade 4 battle themes, every major boss theme and battle theme like this will have one (save for story-important boss themes such as the final boss theme) and it will play when you're nearing the end of a battle.

Anyways, that's all I really have to say on this. Enjoy!

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YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JenlHXZiUIE

Xenoblade Chronicles | We Will Forge Our Names: Remastered! (Conceptual Xenoblade 4 Theme)

[DAY THEME UPLOAD]

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Hey everyone! I'm back with another new addition to my hypothetical Xenoblade Chronicles 4 sountrack; this time with what I'm referring to as the 'plains area theme'. This would be the equivalent for tracks like Gaur Plain, Gormott, and Millick Meadows.

Here, I wanted to do something in the same vain as those tracks, but also make it unique. In that sense, I injected a little bit of jazz/funk into it, just a touch, to make it stand out.

My overall concept for this area is that it would be obviously a typical grassy plain area, but I wanted this to be more apalachian, hence the name of the area being 'Lost Apalachia'. This would be your first big stop in the game after the call to adventure occurs, and would be littered with lower-level enemies (and a giant monkey that will one shot you). In the distance, the looming structure that would be seen is something I'm calling the 'High Authority Fortress', the fortress for the main antagonists in this concept, the High Authority. I won't explain who they are here, but their fortress can be seen throughout the majority of the world, similar to the Mechonis or the World Tree.

Anyways, I think that's all there is to say about this. Enjoy!

...Oh! One more thing; you can now get early access to upcoming videos before they go live on my Patreon! Gold members can now enjoy these songs before anybody else.

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YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/fAu0CUP2Was

Xenoblade Chronicles | "Lost Apalachia: Day" (Conceptual Xenoblade 4 Plains Area Theme) [Fanmade]

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This video was requested by someone in my YouTube comments, go there if you would like to request!

After getting this request, I immediately sat down and had to think about how I wanted to approach this track. My initial idea was to mix Genshin and Sonic's styles, but I inevitably ended up going with something inspired by the style of Eggman's boss themes from Sonic '06 and Unleashed, and Infinite's boss themes from Sonic Forces.

At first, the concept was to make this sort of a medley of each Genshin region's main battle theme in a Sonic-esque style, but I ended up thinking it could just be any Genshin Impact remix. So, to add more Sonic into it, I decided to include the riff for Live and Learn in it (and the Electric Guitar at all), which inevitably sprouted into me including a couple of other Sonic main themes in this as well.

Point being, this was a hard one to conceptualize. But I think I got something that works. This is included in the same project as the Sonic Genshin stage remixes, and it's been a while since I had done a request so I wanted to tackle at least one before I slowed the schedule down to weekly uploads.

As for the concept here, I don't have much except that this would be a fight that takes place after the Natlan stage when all the Sonic characters reconvene in Nod-Krai where they'd run into the Abyss sibling (either Aether or Lumine, doesn't matter). This would probably occur after the Nod-Krai stage, but other than that, I don't know how the fight itself would actually play out or what the context behind it would be.

Other than that, I genuinely didn't know what footage to include for this in terms of background footage, so I just used footage of me fighting each Abyss-related world boss for the sake of the theme.

Anyways, enjoy!

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/26Fi5K1mmLk

[REQUEST] Sonic x Genshin Impact | "Unforseen Variable" (Sonic vs  Travelers Boss Theme) [Fanmade]

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Hey everyone! I'm back with a remaster of one of my oldest uploads: my first Snezhnaya battle theme! I figured that since now we're in Nod-Krai, it'd be the perfect time to tackle this.

The original had a very militant and cold style, so I wanted to keep that essence in this remaster while also making it more similar to the actual style Genshin uses in its regular battle themes, even down to the proper length. I mainly referenced Anthem of the Savannah (Natlan's main battle theme) and To Light the Aeon Dark (Nod-Krai's main battle theme) for style on this remaster, since they are the most recent regular battle themes (and my favorite ones in the game so far).

I also included some more Russian and Scandanavian-inspired instrumentation in here, but I wanted to try to stray away from making this sound the same as Nod-Krai's battle theme. To do that, I kept with a darker and more climactic tone here, both to differ it and since this is the final of the seven nations (not the final region though). Since Nod-Krai's theme has more of an ethereal vibe to it, I went darker here. The choir chants here are supposed to resemble that sort of Russian military chanting, similar to what you'd hear in Letter From Ajax (Tartaglia's character demo theme), which I feel will be present in the actual Snezhnaya battle theme.

I doubt that the official theme will sound anything close to what I've presented here, but consider this my take on what I would do if I composed the theme. As per usual with these Genshin fan-themes (and my fan-themes in general), I tried to get it as close to the original style as possible, which is admittedly difficult for Genshin since I don't have access to a full orchestra but what can you really do. But I think that this gets as close to it as I can get.

Anyways, that's enough rambling. Enjoy!

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/gOeJmirYmYs

Genshin Impact | "Movement of Snezhinka": Remastered! (Fanmade Snezhnaya Battle Theme)

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Hey everyone! It's now spooky season, and we're starting off the new month with my first Sonic Racing CrossWorlds fan remix: a conceptual theme for a Null Space Crossworld track!

I had always thought that this would make for a very cool Crossworld if they did end up doing it, so I decided to make a remix of it myself. I tried to replicate CrossWorld's style of EDM here, as well as mixing a few different styles as well.

This one took longer than I wanted it to, mainly because I have exams coming up and I had to study, but all things considered I think it turned out pretty well. I decided to not put this one up for early access (since by this point it would have only been up there for two days) and just upload it instead.

Anyways, that's all there is to say on this track. Enjoy, and I'll see you all again for next week's upload!

YouTube Link: 

Sonic Racing CrossWorlds | Crossworld: Null Space (Fanmade Remix)

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