This guy didn't miss a friggin' thing - I'm gobsmacked. Thank you Jonny, we're honoured! And obviously, blown away. This was typed up and sent before we disintegrated into nothingness from joy and amazement.
Hell yeah HyperDucks! I interviewed the dev for Racketboy when Iji came out. Still would happily pay $20 for an Iji remastered album download! I know that was in the cards for a while there, but it never happened. This music deserves proper stereo sound at least.
This is definitely one of the best arrangements on the channel, thanks to the original notes as well as from the superbly substantive sound upgrade! Be proud!
imagine, just unsuspectingly checking the gametal channel because "hey I wonder if there's much new stuff there since I last checked" and then i see TOR. TORS THEME. god the fucking gasp i made. most underrated final boss theme of all time. period. of course now you need to do the sector 3 theme
Tor's fight just encapsulates everything I love about final bosses. Its fun and climactic on a gameplay level, while still having this emotional and thematic intensity you don't usually get. I didn't want to kill Tor, but it was the only way to prove that Earth was still worth salvaging. TL;DR: do i need to explain why fighting a giant mech while a sunset of annihilation looms in the background is awesome? Go play Iji, you dorks.
Oh hey you're here so I can actually comment this directly in a reply to you! This game is,. to me, a masterpiece of game design. Every single thing you can possibly do to potentially break the game seems to be thought of and is an easter egg. Any area you think you can sneakily get to that you aren't supposed to be has a reward of some sort for reaching it. There's even a boss where you can, through an incredibly convoluted process, fight him three times without getting a game over, and he gets more and more frustrated each time. An easter egg you added because someone found it and told you about it, no less! I'm just constantly blown away by the attention to detail and the continual honing you put into this game. But all of that would be largely forgettable, a well done but ultimately not too memorable side scrolling platformer, if it weren't for the story and characters. Even the characters you never meet all have their own voice and their own stories, unfolding as you play through the logs you discover. That's what absolutely makes Iji a masterpiece to me. Even the joke characters are written with enough personality that they all feel like different people. The writing and story underlying the game are what keeps me going back to play it over and over, to experience that story again and again, and that amazing writing is only boosted further by the fantastic score. The final showdown on the rooftops is the single most memorable final boss encounter I've ever experienced. It's not the hardest, it's not the longest, but it is the one that sticks with me the most. I only found out about this game at the beginning of the year, and I'm thrilled that I got to experience it. Thank you for giving us the option to save the Tasen survivors. I know it's an ultimately futile gesture, but there's a soft spot in my heart for background characters who would normally be thrown away the instant their role in a story is complete, and an inevitable love for writers who treat those characters with respect. Rock on.
TFW the leader of an alien army has orbital death lasers aimed at the remains of a razed and ransacked planet, and all you can do is fight for what little there is left.
Not quite. The motivations of the antagonists in _Iji_ are a lot more complex than Kefka from _Final Fantasy VI._ Feel free to check out the game for yourself. It's free, so the only thing that you have to spend is time.
You know what is a shame about these lesser known songs? Exactly what I just said. "Lesser known". As in, people will most likely skim over it. And this is probably one of the best songs I have ever heard, and it is under appreciated. I am glad I clicked on this video.
All of Iji's soundtrack are just awesome for hours long car rides at night on the highways. Kept me sane when I was working several states away, and only visiting home like once every few months
This is why I love this channel. I have never heard of "Iji" until now, and only a channel like this one would requests for game songs like this ever get covered!
Oh my god, I just recently fell in love with this song again and thought, "man it would be awesome if somebody made a cover for this song, been wanting one for years..." and lo and behold, Jonny covers it! And it's even better than I thought it would be!
You really did justice to one of my favourite boss themes of all time, man. Tor's theme is such an underrated gem and it's seriously made my whole week by hearing you make such an amazing cover for it.
Is that seven-beat I hear?? This one must've been hard to work with, but that's what makes it sound so different from everything else - in a good way! Very nice, Jonny!
There aren't a lot of remixes of this amazing song, and I feel that Iji is a game that is often overlooked and underappreciated (considering that it's one of my all-time favorite video games). That said, I'm very, VERY happy to find this video. Every time I come to this channel I forget to subscribe. Well, I'm no longer making that mistake as I've been constantly missing out on these amazing covers.
Years ago, when Iji was almost new, this track gave me shivers. Today, much later, your cover still brings back the impact of that final showdown. Thank you!
I haven't made a comment on this thing yet but this is one of my favorite covers from you now. I've listened to it so many times recently. This is why you're, like, my favorite musician on RUclips.
I thought I was the only one who knew about Iji tbh. I love this developer tbh. He has another great game called Herocore and some other random games he's made are fun too. I'm so happy you covered this song and it was incredibly well done
I found out about Iji because of Tor's head being an easter egg in the last level of Risk of Rain. I wanted to know more and downloaded the game. I kept failing at sector 6, I have to go back and try again. Innocent or bust!
Update: Finally did it. Beat the game as Innocent. Tears were shed. 10/10. Never once felt frustrated or cheated, just felt like I needed to get better or actually pay attention and learn layouts. Goddamn that game is a masterpiece of game design. Every single thing you can possibly do to potentially break the game is thought of and is an easter egg. Any area you think you can sneakily get to that you aren't supposed to be has a reward of some sort for reaching it. There's even a boss where you can, through an incredibly convoluted process, fight him three times without getting a game over, and he gets more and more frustrated each time. But all of that would be largely forgettable, a well done but unimpressive side scrolling platformer, if it weren't for the story and characters. Even the characters you never meet all have their own voice and their own stories, unfolding as you play through the logs you discover. Fuck, I hope he writes another game's story with the depth and character he put into Iji.
Don't know if you'll ever see this Jonny- but here it is. You...are an artist! You take these songs, and you do renditions of them...And you make them SOUND GOOD. Such an easy thing, but...it isn't. You take the work of the artist, and you do it JUSTICE. Your passion...your talent...Combines with a melody to create something more. You don't just MAKE remixes...you TRANSFORM entire songs! And throughout that process, you somehow manage to keep the original soul of the song alive! I'm not a metal fan, or a hard rock individual...but after finding these musical renditions...these SKYSCRAPERS of melodies...I'm inclined to think that perhaps a more metal approach would be better for all of us :) Keep rocking out Jonny- your music is the sparkle in a night sky of crystal clear coldness :D
Browsing RUclips on my phone. In bed at night. Find this. Get the hell out of bed and put on headphones to listen because this deserves better than the crappy phone speaker.
Just played the game on Stream yesterday for the first time in over a decade and remembered once I got to the end that GaMetal did this cover of the final boss track XD
Today has been a hard day but I have never in my life clicked on something so quickly. Iji's a fantastic game that does not get enough attention, and this is just excellent. Thank you for this.
Didn't know about this track, now I'm really glad to hear your cover. I'm really hoping you make a cover of Fierce battle from Metal slug 5 or any other song from that saga.
Now this was unexpected but thank you! This game is fantastic and more people need to know about it. (also i'm totally predicting Iji as the last Slap City character)
Jesus Christ, I just discovered this cover of a music from one my favorite games of all times, and DAMN, I can't believe that this cover is SO good. You actually made it sound so good, may be even better than original. I'm so glad I found it. Good job buddy, kudos to ya!
Holy shit, I remember back when I watched MediaMaster how I struggled to know how the music he used for his intro was called, and ultimately failed to do so. And then years later I fall on this because you made a cover of it, thank you Gametal !
Holy cow I was not expecting this. This made my morning. This is one of my favorite games and I thought everyone had forgotten it and moved on from that era of indie games. Thank you so much for this tear-inducing bout of nostalgia
@@centurosproductions8827 It seems to be a theme in shockingly good indie titles. Iji, ZeroRanger, I need to play more good indie games so I can have more examples for this list...
Everyone, Iji is free to download on PC! Please please *please* give it a shot. This game did Undertale WAY before it came out, but since it wasn’t on Steam it didn’t get the attention it deserved. Also, really good remix Jonny! Personally, I don’t think I’m feeling this one. The original had a lot of emotion and oomph, so it’s not exactly the easiest when trying to recreate that. There were a bunch of small things that it had going for it that culminated in a huge piece that it was. Not to mention it was already guitar-heavy to begin with, so there’s that. But the change in instruments like in the Your Contract Has Expired vs. your remix of it isn’t as noticeable, so I guess this one just doesn’t seem to be a win for me personally, sorry J! That’s just me though, you guys check the original song and tell me if you think differently!
Larry Butz How not to make me want to play a game: call it either “the original Undertale” or “the better Undertale.” I cannot think of a more effective way to set my standards higher than I know the game could possibly meet.
Bob Stayoffthegrass Who said it’s “better?” I’m just saying it did the thing before, like an indirect precursor to it. If it’s “better” or not is subjective; hence, why I want people to play it, to judge it. I get the hate for the whole Undertale or Dark Souls analogies, but in terms of ideas it was going for, I’m just saying Iji implemented them before. That’s pretty much a fact rather than conjecture, albeit it’s handled in a different direction. Again, I want thoughts on that when someone gets around to it. *Iji is Dark Souls of hipster content*
Everything did Undertale before Undertale. As much as I enjoyed the game and had fun playing it, I cannot call it original. It took parts directly from other game series, heck even it's story and character are quite similiar to Cave Story, another game that Undertale was heavily inspired by.
(Keep in mind that what’s written below may spoil your experience if anyone ever decide to play, so don’t read if you want a fresh take on it. Can alter your whole take while playing. Personally I wish I didn’t know when I played :y ) Hmm, I guess what I meant was it’s main draw or appeal, the thing that brought so much attention to it. The whole “direct, but choice-is-not-an-apparent-option morality” and the issues therein from physically being the one to alter the game on a heavy layer. Games like Lisa focused on moral issues as well, but never typically managed a *direct* form of it. Either it was “Say yes and do thing” or “Say no and whoops he dead” or something like that. Lisa sought to achieve the opposite effect of that in their own method, with legitimately game-impacting consequences of your decisions, while Undertale did story-impacting decisions, but on a grand scheme level. Both did something crazy in their own right. The whole point of the shock factor that you always had a choice, but you didn’t actually notice/act upon common morals, that’s even invoked and called upon in-game. Few games tried this out at the time, like... Metal Gear Solid in some instances, I guess?? There’s a reason people flocked to Undertale when they played it or wanted to see other people stream/experience it, and that’s not necessarily for gameplay, but what the game itself does. Granted, Iji isn’t as meta, of course. Totally get your guys’ sentiments.
I actually quite like what Iji did with the whole thing. I'll put what I mean after a spoiler, just like Larry - I went in blind, personally, and then went and unlocked everything. I've got a save with the Null Driver, for example, just to mess around; if you know what that is, you'll know what I went through to get it. And when I say spoiler, I mean it. Morality is the name of the game, my dudes. In level 3, you start in an empty area, and go down an elevator into a room full of Tasen guards. However, if by that point you haven't killed anyone, or at most five Tasen to my recollection, you'll get the option to attempt a pacifist run of that level without any Tasen actively getting in your way, AI quirks and accidentally guarding jumps notwithstanding. None of them will shoot at you unless you accidentally touch one of them or shoot first. One of their own, Vatelika I think her name is, explicitly tells you so right after you get down the elevator. Right near the end of the level you'll find some new units you've never seen before, with weird body structure and new logbook shapes - these are not Tasen. They are the Komato, they will shoot, and they are fair game. Right after the Komato, though, you'll find a single blue Tasen guarding a locked box. This one's no different from the rest in terms of AI, short of having spread rockets if I remember correctly, but if you kill her, a logbook in level 8 changes. Regardless, if you keep your pacifist run to the end of level 3, you'll skip the boss, because Vatelika comes in with an MPFB and kicks his ass in one shot. Your in-game time takes a 10 minute hit, but that's only a problem for speedrunners, since there are no unlockables tied to completion time. Additionally, the ribbons. They're hallucinations. Miss one, and you won't be able to find any more on that save file. You can't find them in the single sector modes.
FINALLY Some Iji Love! also the game as a "pacifist" mode update it has non-lethal versions of nearly every weapon even though its like metroidvania sure iji isnt as badass as Samus but she can hold her own WITHOUT Armor
Honestly, I feel like Iji is more of a realistically portrayed character with depth of feeling, whereas Samus was always just this badass space fighter chick. Iji will always be better in my heart. This coming from a huge metroid fan.
@@HTMangaka Iji is some random teen who was visiting work with her dad, everything went white, and she wakes up to basically everyone she's ever known except for her brother long dead, and herself turned from a regular girl into a combat cyborg. It's a miracle she got up again after realizing the truth and collapsing from the weight of it. Samus is a trained soldier and bounty hunter, with years and years of combat experience. The two really aren't comparable as protagonists, Samus is a professional doing her job well, Iji is some kid living in a nightmare and having to fight her way through it. Both tell good stories, but they are very different stories. About the only thing they share in common is that they're both women.
When you put it like that, I think my earlier post was a little off. Iji is WAY better a character than I stated. Honestly, to have a random regular person kick that much butt. She's a combat PRODIGY!
I feel like this was let down a bit by not having enough going on during the chorus, was totally expecting an overlay for the second run of it. I absolutely loved the first part of the solo, starting it during the slowed down section was really cool and I loved the sort of chill ambience you had going on and doubly so when you mixed in the main theme in a really relaxed sort of way. I'm bein' overly critical because this theme has straight up never been done justice but I did love your cover.
One of my favorite themes EVER for one of my favorite final bosses EVER for one of my favorite games EVER. Seriously. Iji is FREE! How the hell have more people not played this fucking MASTERPIECE?!!?
This guy didn't miss a friggin' thing - I'm gobsmacked. Thank you Jonny, we're honoured! And obviously, blown away. This was typed up and sent before we disintegrated into nothingness from joy and amazement.
Thanks guys, couldn't have done it without your great amazing composition! :)
Okay, you know VERY well you've done good when the original creators of the song and the game it's from stop by to praise you. Congratulations, Jonny!
Hell yeah HyperDucks! I interviewed the dev for Racketboy when Iji came out. Still would happily pay $20 for an Iji remastered album download! I know that was in the cards for a while there, but it never happened. This music deserves proper stereo sound at least.
Anime crossover lol
This is definitely one of the best arrangements on the channel, thanks to the original notes as well as from the superbly substantive sound upgrade! Be proud!
imagine, just unsuspectingly checking the gametal channel because "hey I wonder if there's much new stuff there since I last checked" and then i see TOR. TORS THEME. god the fucking gasp i made. most underrated final boss theme of all time. period.
of course now you need to do the sector 3 theme
Tor's fight just encapsulates everything I love about final bosses. Its fun and climactic on a gameplay level, while still having this emotional and thematic intensity you don't usually get. I didn't want to kill Tor, but it was the only way to prove that Earth was still worth salvaging.
TL;DR: do i need to explain why fighting a giant mech while a sunset of annihilation looms in the background is awesome? Go play Iji, you dorks.
Oh, and don't forget that he learns during the fight and every time an attack hits you, he's more likely to use it on you.
@@slavkei That's super interesting! Never knew that.
Amazing, I love it! _|,,/
Damn. Getting the attention and praise by the game and music creator. That was a good remix ^^
Oh hey you're here so I can actually comment this directly in a reply to you!
This game is,. to me, a masterpiece of game design. Every single thing you can possibly do to potentially break the game seems to be thought of and is an easter egg. Any area you think you can sneakily get to that you aren't supposed to be has a reward of some sort for reaching it. There's even a boss where you can, through an incredibly convoluted process, fight him three times without getting a game over, and he gets more and more frustrated each time.
An easter egg you added because someone found it and told you about it, no less! I'm just constantly blown away by the attention to detail and the continual honing you put into this game.
But all of that would be largely forgettable, a well done but ultimately not too memorable side scrolling platformer, if it weren't for the story and characters. Even the characters you never meet all have their own voice and their own stories, unfolding as you play through the logs you discover.
That's what absolutely makes Iji a masterpiece to me. Even the joke characters are written with enough personality that they all feel like different people. The writing and story underlying the game are what keeps me going back to play it over and over, to experience that story again and again, and that amazing writing is only boosted further by the fantastic score.
The final showdown on the rooftops is the single most memorable final boss encounter I've ever experienced. It's not the hardest, it's not the longest, but it is the one that sticks with me the most.
I only found out about this game at the beginning of the year, and I'm thrilled that I got to experience it.
Thank you for giving us the option to save the Tasen survivors. I know it's an ultimately futile gesture, but there's a soft spot in my heart for background characters who would normally be thrown away the instant their role in a story is complete, and an inevitable love for writers who treat those characters with respect.
Rock on.
@@slavkei Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you liked the game!
OH MY GOSH THE MAN HIMSELF! Making Undertale-style gameplay before it was even popular!
@@piers1796 I was just thinking that, although his genocide route doesn't go as far 😅
TFW the leader of an alien army has orbital death lasers aimed at the remains of a razed and ransacked planet, and all you can do is fight for what little there is left.
That's deep
So basically space Kefka? Cool
Not quite. The motivations of the antagonists in _Iji_ are a lot more complex than Kefka from _Final Fantasy VI._ Feel free to check out the game for yourself. It's free, so the only thing that you have to spend is time.
TFW you don’t get a missle pony from your favorite assassin/train
I disagree in the more complex part though on the surface he is simple, but motivation wise entirely different.
You know what is a shame about these lesser known songs? Exactly what I just said. "Lesser known". As in, people will most likely skim over it. And this is probably one of the best songs I have ever heard, and it is under appreciated.
I am glad I clicked on this video.
Dude, yes!
How many even remember Iji?
Honestly the whole soundtrack screams for a GaMetal cover.
DrOdd sector 3 stands out in need although the boss theme too. hero though already has machinae supremacys actual version
_WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL!_
I loved "3 cans later"
The general approves
I don't remember a god damned thing about this game other than this song. I even played it recently and it still feels like a new game to me.
This song alone already gives me a pretty good idea that this game is gonna be a emotional kick to the nuts
-what can I say I am down-
It is.
It so is.
Gonna go play through it again BRB!
I've waited years for this. This game was quite emotional for me.
Belatedly, would you say it was breath-taking?
"DIEEEE!"
"IT'S USELESS, HUMAN."
"LIKE A SPARK TO THE FIRE..."
All of Iji's soundtrack are just awesome for hours long car rides at night on the highways. Kept me sane when I was working several states away, and only visiting home like once every few months
Hell yeah! Ijii needs more love, man, such a goodie
This is why I love this channel. I have never heard of "Iji" until now, and only a channel like this one would requests for game songs like this ever get covered!
The greatness of this cover may well be a weapon to surpass the Phantom Hammer.
This video and its comments were like the sole reason i went and played Iji in a single sitting. Yeah its really really good y'all
Hope you unlocked true ending.
Oh my god, I just recently fell in love with this song again and thought, "man it would be awesome if somebody made a cover for this song, been wanting one for years..." and lo and behold, Jonny covers it! And it's even better than I thought it would be!
I straight downloaded it off his site and swapped it in, replacing the actual battle theme in game.
IT SO GOOD.
Now there's a game I haven't heard about in forever. Excellent memories.
Glad to see this amazing game getting some of the love it deserves.
I literally found about this game and this theme only last month and you end up making a cover for it. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
i know that feeling, lol
You really did justice to one of my favourite boss themes of all time, man. Tor's theme is such an underrated gem and it's seriously made my whole week by hearing you make such an amazing cover for it.
CS1 tors theme is the most underrated final boss theme of all time, period
An Iji song? Hell yeah! Dude, you’re the best for doing all these indie game songs most other people wouldn’t even touch.
Not many games have a higher obscurity to awesomeness ratio than Iji. Was pleasantly surprised to see you're a fan too!
Is that seven-beat I hear?? This one must've been hard to work with, but that's what makes it sound so different from everything else - in a good way! Very nice, Jonny!
I think this song uses three time signatures. 7/4, 5/4 and 3/4
@@TheOriginalAspie Oh heck, it keeps switching? Like Marx? That's crazy, even CRAZIER to work with. Two years old, but still, MUCH respect.
There aren't a lot of remixes of this amazing song, and I feel that Iji is a game that is often overlooked and underappreciated (considering that it's one of my all-time favorite video games). That said, I'm very, VERY happy to find this video.
Every time I come to this channel I forget to subscribe. Well, I'm no longer making that mistake as I've been constantly missing out on these amazing covers.
Years ago, when Iji was almost new, this track gave me shivers. Today, much later, your cover still brings back the impact of that final showdown. Thank you!
God I love IJI's soundtrack. This is a great rendition.
I haven't made a comment on this thing yet but this is one of my favorite covers from you now.
I've listened to it so many times recently.
This is why you're, like, my favorite musician on RUclips.
:D
I thought I was the only one who knew about Iji tbh. I love this developer tbh. He has another great game called Herocore and some other random games he's made are fun too. I'm so happy you covered this song and it was incredibly well done
I found out about Iji because of Tor's head being an easter egg in the last level of Risk of Rain. I wanted to know more and downloaded the game.
I kept failing at sector 6, I have to go back and try again. Innocent or bust!
Update: Finally did it. Beat the game as Innocent. Tears were shed. 10/10. Never once felt frustrated or cheated, just felt like I needed to get better or actually pay attention and learn layouts.
Goddamn that game is a masterpiece of game design. Every single thing you can possibly do to potentially break the game is thought of and is an easter egg. Any area you think you can sneakily get to that you aren't supposed to be has a reward of some sort for reaching it. There's even a boss where you can, through an incredibly convoluted process, fight him three times without getting a game over, and he gets more and more frustrated each time.
But all of that would be largely forgettable, a well done but unimpressive side scrolling platformer, if it weren't for the story and characters. Even the characters you never meet all have their own voice and their own stories, unfolding as you play through the logs you discover.
Fuck, I hope he writes another game's story with the depth and character he put into Iji.
Don't know if you'll ever see this Jonny- but here it is. You...are an artist! You take these songs, and you do renditions of them...And you make them SOUND GOOD. Such an easy thing, but...it isn't. You take the work of the artist, and you do it JUSTICE. Your passion...your talent...Combines with a melody to create something more. You don't just MAKE remixes...you TRANSFORM entire songs! And throughout that process, you somehow manage to keep the original soul of the song alive! I'm not a metal fan, or a hard rock individual...but after finding these musical renditions...these SKYSCRAPERS of melodies...I'm inclined to think that perhaps a more metal approach would be better for all of us :)
Keep rocking out Jonny- your music is the sparkle in a night sky of crystal clear coldness :D
Browsing RUclips on my phone. In bed at night. Find this. Get the hell out of bed and put on headphones to listen because this deserves better than the crappy phone speaker.
Yes! I never thought I'd see Iji here!
Oh man, I keep coming back to this cover two years later. That gotta mean something,...
Hadn't heard of this theme before now.
Also, PLS do full acoustic Tor. That shit sounds amazing!
There's only one man who could make a remix of this level. The same man who beat Jumper without jumping.
Tell your son I said hi!
Iji has got to be one of my all time favorite video games, please try it out if you haven't! It's completely free and completely awesome!
Just played the game on Stream yesterday for the first time in over a decade and remembered once I got to the end that GaMetal did this cover of the final boss track XD
Today has been a hard day but I have never in my life clicked on something so quickly. Iji's a fantastic game that does not get enough attention, and this is just excellent. Thank you for this.
Very underrated song. Glad to see you remixing this.
Didn't know about this track, now I'm really glad to hear your cover. I'm really hoping you make a cover of Fierce battle from Metal slug 5 or any other song from that saga.
I fkcing love Metal Slug 5's OST
*YES!!!! PLEASE!!!!!*
*EVERYONE!!! GIVE HIM MORE LIKES SO THAT JONNY ATMA SEES THIS!!!!!*
OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I don't even have the words. This is AMAZING.
Now this was unexpected but thank you! This game is fantastic and more people need to know about it.
(also i'm totally predicting Iji as the last Slap City character)
god hand now this, I'm amazed at your selection of gems to cover
Couldn't click this fast enough. Iji is *magnificent*.
Jesus Christ, I just discovered this cover of a music from one my favorite games of all times, and DAMN, I can't believe that this cover is SO good. You actually made it sound so good, may be even better than original. I'm so glad I found it. Good job buddy, kudos to ya!
you should sub to him bro
It's the song you were born to play.
Love the Darkwing Duck shirt.
You have no idea how gobsmacked I was when I saw this in my recommendations. Good stuff, Jonny.
One more game added to the list...
Also hoLY-- THAT'S INTENSE
I love this boss theme, and very happy with the remix! Great job!
AAAAAAAAAA It's here!
I didn't even know I wanted this until now! Thanks so much, Jonny!
No fucking way :o Did not expect to see this covered but thank you so much one of my fave themes from an amazing game!!
Holy shit, I remember back when I watched MediaMaster how I struggled to know how the music he used for his intro was called, and ultimately failed to do so. And then years later I fall on this because you made a cover of it, thank you Gametal !
Man Iji has a really neat OST. I wish it was in higher quality though. All of the tracks online are rather compressed.
What about the high quality download on the website of Iji, right after the game download link ?
nah, sadly even they kinda suck quality-wise, we didn't know what we were doing when it came to mixing and.. stuff back then, sadface
HyperDuck SoundWorks i kinda like the rough sound of OST.
@@HyperDuck Hey at least, y'all made something good, even for this game, and the next tracks will be even better now since you know better lmao
@@HyperDuck I did not even realize who did the music. Mind = blown
I ALMOST FORGOT THIS EXISTED
I'm really surprised to see an Iji track here, thanks a lot for this. Iji ranks among my favorite games and I think it's criminally unknown.
Here's something I've never heard of.
Both sounds and looks fantastic, I might have a look some time.
NES Medley up next, perhaps?
fucking beautiful. iji soundtracks are phenomenal, please listen to more of them
Never heard of it until now and now im a fan
AWESOME cover Gametal! I listen every day !!
Holy cow I was not expecting this. This made my morning. This is one of my favorite games and I thought everyone had forgotten it and moved on from that era of indie games.
Thank you so much for this tear-inducing bout of nostalgia
Haven't thought about this game in years.
Who would win:
Bug-lizard-bird-Thanos mech with technology millenia ahead of humanity and years of training and discipline, Vs. One Shotty Thotty
The will to save what you once knew and loved despite it’s near nonexistence can motivate someone a lot,
Like wanting geno for smash :’(
@@nomo3457 F
Vs playing Tennis with the boss.
@@centurosproductions8827 It seems to be a theme in shockingly good indie titles. Iji, ZeroRanger, I need to play more good indie games so I can have more examples for this list...
*One reflecty gal
Absolutely fantastic - been hoping for this for ages! So happy you've done a cover of the track!
Awesome remix. Iji really deserves to get some more attention.
One hell of an early birthday present. o_o
I'm so happy that you covered this track this is the best rendition of my fav song from one of my fav games. Great stuff as always my guy.
IJI needs more love! It's a very underrated and free game. So, thank you for this.
You Saint! I never expected someone to cover this!!!!!
I’ve been looking for this boss for 3 consecutive years and have not found it but thanks for reminding me of it
This is quickly becoming one of my favorites! What a perfect remaster!
Everyone, Iji is free to download on PC! Please please *please* give it a shot. This game did Undertale WAY before it came out, but since it wasn’t on Steam it didn’t get the attention it deserved.
Also, really good remix Jonny! Personally, I don’t think I’m feeling this one. The original had a lot of emotion and oomph, so it’s not exactly the easiest when trying to recreate that. There were a bunch of small things that it had going for it that culminated in a huge piece that it was. Not to mention it was already guitar-heavy to begin with, so there’s that. But the change in instruments like in the Your Contract Has Expired vs. your remix of it isn’t as noticeable, so I guess this one just doesn’t seem to be a win for me personally, sorry J!
That’s just me though, you guys check the original song and tell me if you think differently!
Larry Butz How not to make me want to play a game: call it either “the original Undertale” or “the better Undertale.” I cannot think of a more effective way to set my standards higher than I know the game could possibly meet.
Bob Stayoffthegrass Who said it’s “better?” I’m just saying it did the thing before, like an indirect precursor to it. If it’s “better” or not is subjective; hence, why I want people to play it, to judge it. I get the hate for the whole Undertale or Dark Souls analogies, but in terms of ideas it was going for, I’m just saying Iji implemented them before. That’s pretty much a fact rather than conjecture, albeit it’s handled in a different direction. Again, I want thoughts on that when someone gets around to it.
*Iji is Dark Souls of hipster content*
Everything did Undertale before Undertale. As much as I enjoyed the game and had fun playing it, I cannot call it original. It took parts directly from other game series, heck even it's story and character are quite similiar to Cave Story, another game that Undertale was heavily inspired by.
(Keep in mind that what’s written below may spoil your experience if anyone ever decide to play, so don’t read if you want a fresh take on it. Can alter your whole take while playing. Personally I wish I didn’t know when I played :y )
Hmm, I guess what I meant was it’s main draw or appeal, the thing that brought so much attention to it. The whole “direct, but choice-is-not-an-apparent-option morality” and the issues therein from physically being the one to alter the game on a heavy layer. Games like Lisa focused on moral issues as well, but never typically managed a *direct* form of it. Either it was “Say yes and do thing” or “Say no and whoops he dead” or something like that. Lisa sought to achieve the opposite effect of that in their own method, with legitimately game-impacting consequences of your decisions, while Undertale did story-impacting decisions, but on a grand scheme level. Both did something crazy in their own right.
The whole point of the shock factor that you always had a choice, but you didn’t actually notice/act upon common morals, that’s even invoked and called upon in-game. Few games tried this out at the time, like... Metal Gear Solid in some instances, I guess??
There’s a reason people flocked to Undertale when they played it or wanted to see other people stream/experience it, and that’s not necessarily for gameplay, but what the game itself does. Granted, Iji isn’t as meta, of course. Totally get your guys’ sentiments.
I actually quite like what Iji did with the whole thing. I'll put what I mean after a spoiler, just like Larry - I went in blind, personally, and then went and unlocked everything. I've got a save with the Null Driver, for example, just to mess around; if you know what that is, you'll know what I went through to get it.
And when I say spoiler, I mean it.
Morality is the name of the game, my dudes. In level 3, you start in an empty area, and go down an elevator into a room full of Tasen guards. However, if by that point you haven't killed anyone, or at most five Tasen to my recollection, you'll get the option to attempt a pacifist run of that level without any Tasen actively getting in your way, AI quirks and accidentally guarding jumps notwithstanding. None of them will shoot at you unless you accidentally touch one of them or shoot first. One of their own, Vatelika I think her name is, explicitly tells you so right after you get down the elevator. Right near the end of the level you'll find some new units you've never seen before, with weird body structure and new logbook shapes - these are not Tasen. They are the Komato, they will shoot, and they are fair game. Right after the Komato, though, you'll find a single blue Tasen guarding a locked box. This one's no different from the rest in terms of AI, short of having spread rockets if I remember correctly, but if you kill her, a logbook in level 8 changes. Regardless, if you keep your pacifist run to the end of level 3, you'll skip the boss, because Vatelika comes in with an MPFB and kicks his ass in one shot. Your in-game time takes a 10 minute hit, but that's only a problem for speedrunners, since there are no unlockables tied to completion time.
Additionally, the ribbons. They're hallucinations. Miss one, and you won't be able to find any more on that save file. You can't find them in the single sector modes.
THREE DAYS after your Pressing Pursuit cover ? What a madman !
If you ever do any Octopath theme I am going to love you even more ^^
Holy shit balls that acoustic is fucking fire too! I like everything about this
For Yall who still can't find waddle dee, he is in the gameplay footage at 0:23
Man I love Iji
Completed the game yesterday, gotta confess. Tor fight is worth the entire game
Oh my, that just made my day. I loved this game AND this song so much.
The best part is about a week ago I finally got around to playing this game through rather than just screwing around in the first level
Hell yeah, Iji music!
Maybe also do Seven Four from the same game?
FINALLY Some Iji Love! also the game as a "pacifist" mode update it has non-lethal versions of nearly every weapon even though its like metroidvania sure iji isnt as badass as Samus but she can hold her own WITHOUT Armor
I mean, the nanofield kind of is invisible armor. More than kind of, it literally is an invisible cloud of adaptive armor...
Honestly, I feel like Iji is more of a realistically portrayed character with depth of feeling, whereas Samus was always just this badass space fighter chick. Iji will always be better in my heart. This coming from a huge metroid fan.
@@HTMangaka Iji is some random teen who was visiting work with her dad, everything went white, and she wakes up to basically everyone she's ever known except for her brother long dead, and herself turned from a regular girl into a combat cyborg.
It's a miracle she got up again after realizing the truth and collapsing from the weight of it.
Samus is a trained soldier and bounty hunter, with years and years of combat experience.
The two really aren't comparable as protagonists, Samus is a professional doing her job well, Iji is some kid living in a nightmare and having to fight her way through it. Both tell good stories, but they are very different stories. About the only thing they share in common is that they're both women.
When you put it like that, I think my earlier post was a little off. Iji is WAY better a character than I stated. Honestly, to have a random regular person kick that much butt. She's a combat PRODIGY!
@@HTMangaka I dunno what you mean, my Iji never killed anyone and mostly blew herself up! :D
That last stanza should forever be immortalized into this song.
Wow! I wasn’t expecting a 7/4 song. Nice job!
Odd time signatures!!
Oh it's so amazing! This game needs so much more recognition!
OH GOD, THANK YOU FOR THIS
this game needs so much more attetion
Glad I am not the cover-judging type because I have never, EVER heard this game before. This is an awesome remix.
the game is really good! It's free too.
This and Rabi Ribi: Two games I played purely because you made covers of them. Pretty good shit.
I respect that you're making the song taste so good!@-@!!
As expected,this is an awesome remix!
Man. This takes me back. Awesome game with great music.
wow...... iji content in 2019, I'm extremely happy hearing this.... Wow.... damn my ears
ohh man that acoustic version at the end dude yES
I feel like this was let down a bit by not having enough going on during the chorus, was totally expecting an overlay for the second run of it. I absolutely loved the first part of the solo, starting it during the slowed down section was really cool and I loved the sort of chill ambience you had going on and doubly so when you mixed in the main theme in a really relaxed sort of way. I'm bein' overly critical because this theme has straight up never been done justice but I did love your cover.
Nice frenetic rock dude, this needs a good old like. I'm still waiting for that megalomania remix from Live A Live tough
Oh shit Iji
this is nice
Looks good, gonna play this once I get a chance
This is amazing. You should do Seven-Four or Three Cans later (Same Game)
Can't get enough of this theme.
Fond memories of watching DeceasedCrab's playthrough.
One of my favorite themes EVER for one of my favorite final bosses EVER for one of my favorite games EVER. Seriously. Iji is FREE! How the hell have more people not played this fucking MASTERPIECE?!!?