Arcade, 8-bit, and Game Soundtracks - part 3

𝟑 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

Day 28 of March Madness, where I challenge myself to remaster 1 final boss/final area theme from a video game every day. Today, I did the Great Palace theme from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. This game gets a bad reputation, but if you play it with save states/rewind and a guide, it's really fun. Dark Souls-esque combat on the NES hasn't aged that well, but the game is a fun one to pass the time. Not much to say about the song, though, except for the fact that I REALLY like how it came out. Enjoy!

Great Palace (Zelda II: The Adventure of Link) (March Madness: Final Boss/Area Themes Remastered)

Thanks everyone for patiently waiting. 3 years 9 months is how long I've been stuck on this track. I would always quit and do some other track, and this one always kept nagging on me until I finally gave myself an ultimatum to finish this up or none at all. I spent nearly every day of the pandemic working on it. Zelda II is such a different beast compared to the rest of the series, which is why I am an apologist for it. I really like how populated the world is, and funny enough it's still the game furthest along in the timeline. I treated it as if it was everyone's favorite in the series. This may be my only track where you see a perfect mesh of story, visuals, and music working in perfect sync.
 
For more notes on the track, and to appreciate it with the visuals, check it out on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/thesecondnarrator

Support me at https://www.patreon.com/thesecondnarrator

Arrangement and Cover Art by Jeremiah Sun
Original Theme by Akito Nakatsuka
You can play Zelda II on the Nintendo Switch Online NES app

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Orchestral Arrangement

01 - Prologue & Title Theme | Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Orchestral Arrangement

Check it out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kteGPGm7eKU

===== NOTES =====
THIS ONE'S ACTUALLY COMPLETELY NEW FOR ONCE HOLY SHIT

I have in fact fallen into the trap of making BIG SHOTs for anything and everything I can think of, obviously including other Deltarune characters themselves! This one was mainly inspired by the Queen BIG SHOTs that were already around, to try and make something stylistically distinct from the lot of them. Whether I succeeded I can't necessarily say! But I can at least say that I like how this one turned out.

Additionally I'm just proud of myself for NOT falling into the trope of forcing voice lines in that probably wouldn't fit the vibes of the song.

Rouxls Kaard's theme is used here because I guess for some reason I decided the Jevil replacement shouldn't be King, but rather Rouxls. Probably because I'm heavily biased towards Rouxls. He Rouxls, okay?

===== CREDITS =====
Awesome thumbnail (including Queen sprite) put together by @austhetic!!!

KILLER QUEEN KILL SCREEN

THUMBNAIL IS A PLACEHOLDER. BLAME @underblunder FOR THIS
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Song was basically carried by @kiwiquest...
I just did finishing stuff.

I was gonna release this on Christmas, but I got ahead of myself and it's finished so... 

This track is basically the real final battle track. Some melodies might be familiar...

GIGANTENNA (ft. lex3x)

sampled some weird shit for this one

Original by: https://soundcloud.com/notrealnevereal
https://soundcloud.com/notrealnevereal/thrash-the-world
The Other Puppet: https://the-other-puppet.tumblr.com/

THRASH THE WORLD (Arrangement)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past playlist.

Note the similarities between this and A Link Between Worlds. I suppose since they're set in the same Hyrule they have similar soundtracks.

Princess Zelda's Rescue   The Legend Of Zelda A Link To The Past

Track by @wicher500i

* Start prayin'! 
* (Use Undyne's JUSTICE ARROW, to shoot extra bullets!)
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* WE WIN ~ !! <3
* Earned 12 G

08 - Butterscotch Soda

Tried to stay as consistent as possible

I'm sure it could play on actual hardware if I tried hard enough though

SPAWN (SPC700 Cover)

credit where it is due, the entire crux of this song is inspired by RazFraz (https://soundcloud.com/razfraz)'s concept of 'what if you could return to card kingdom second sanctuary style?' her song 'Field of Lost Hopes and Forgotten Dreams' is basically what inspired this whole thing. i just wanted to go a lot more insane with the time signature usage. tell me if you know which ones are used in the comments!

DELTARUNE and motifs by Toby Fox
Song by me
Field of Lost Hopes and Forgotten Dreams by RazFraz

Wellspring of Hope

In a 1 for 1 battle, I never lose!!!
falls to the HOPES AND DREAMS OF THE ANGEL!!

Art by Reative! (@creative_name65 on twt!) show them some love!
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It's been a while! i've been working on some stuff and pretty busy overall, but I want to say thank you to you all, for being so supportive! 💚🥹 thank you friends!

NEO LIGHTS

People were asking for a soundcloud upload, so here it is 

--Raise Up Your Bat ITSO Megalo Strike Back--

Thumbnail art from here:
https://x.com/ItToastie/status/1960877370015113580/photo/1

Title suggested by *mr.drogencion* on Tiktok

RAISE UP YOUR LOVE

Check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t3f3uJbX3sA

===== DIALOGUE =====
* Looks like abandoned lesson plans.

===== NOTES =====
This came third place in the most recent music poll! This poll was entirely based on Chapter 3, its characters and its songs. This song isn't attached to any pre-existing AU.

There's not much in terms of full context for this one, but I knew pretty much from the start I wanted to go with some sort of old-timey entertainer vibe for Gerson, and I think it turned out really nicely.

This AU's third chapter would take place at Alvin's home. Berdly (replacing Kris) is asked to pay Alvin a visit by Ms. Boom, as well as to help him clear out his attic. He and Catti (replacing Susie) head up there early in the morning, only to realize his house is shrouded in darkness.

===== CREDITS =====
Art by: Austhetic (@austhetic / https://bsky.app/profile/austhetic.bsky.social)

Golden Sun, Felix theme 8-bit devamp (Pokemon Gold soundfont)

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