This is the best adaptation of an NES soundtrack I have ever heard. So many remakes just slap on updated synth sounds, but the composers here put so much care into arranging every single piece in a way that makes it sound like it was actually meant to be played by an orchestra. Even the more drastic changes they made had a lot of thought put into how they would improve on the intended tone in the context of what is going on in the story.
@@maximumbeans9310 The original soundtrack feels like it was meant to be played by an orchestra, which I can't really say I've felt the same for the first game. I wonder why they didn't put this game, and possibly even the first game, on the Super Famicom. The first game was released a few months before the Super Famicom was released in Japan and the Megadrive was out in Japan since 1988. The latest licensed game on the NES was Wario Woods in 1994 (or however that title is spelled gramatically). I have no idea why developers in Japan in the late 80s and throughout the 90s would be so reluctant to move to better hardware when they could create a more complete presentation.
@@lassellie5770 1 year development hell marches in the corporate gulag. That's why. Its also why many of them never work in the industry again like Team SILENT did. It goes from 2-4 years of making something good to wanting a "return on investment NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!" and shitting out generic anime games over a single year like they have over the last decade that are all identical to each other.
i'm still really surprised at how fucking amazing the music ost was originally composed even though it dated back years ago. and the remastered versions just fucked me up man jhwrbfuierbg
Chapter 1 (To Sofia - Alm's Setting Off) 0:00 [Gaiden] Where the Wind Rustles 1:42 [Echoes] Village 2:39 [Gaiden] Uprising 3:29 [Echoes] Alm Map 1 4:17 [Gaiden] March to Deliverance 5:11 [Echoes] World Map Chapter 2 (Celica's Journey) 6:10 [Gaiden] The Ark of Dawn 7:28 [Echoes] Celica Map 1 8:54 [Gaiden] With Mila's Divine Protection 9:56 [Echoes] Fight 1 11:10 [Gaiden] The Dauntless Blade 11:38 [Echoes] Chapter 3 (Liberation Battle - Each Road) 12:05 [Gaiden] Chapter 3 (War of Deliverance) 13:01 [Echoes] Celica Map 2 14:03 [Gaiden] The Sacrifice and the Saint 14:51 [Echoes] Encounter 16:47 [Gaiden] Unity 17:24 [Echoes] Chapter 4 (Land of Sorrow) 18:51 [Gaiden] A Song for Bygone Days 20:12 [Echoes] Tower 21:48 [Gaiden] The Pinnacle of False Belief 22:20 [Echoes] Boss Battle 24:20 [Gaiden] Warring Powers 24:36 [Echoes] Forest of Resurrection 24:54 [Gaiden] Melody of Water 25:07 [Echoes] Chapter 5 (Reunion, and Then...) 25:19 [Gaiden] Truth 26:31 [Echoes] Final Map 28:15 [Gaiden] Twilight of the Gods 28:58 [Echoes] Final Map Opponent 32:56 [Gaiden] Duma's Scourge 33:48 [Echoes] Final Boss Battle 35:14 [Gaiden] The Fell God's Tempest 35:38 [Echoes] Castle (March) 36:04 [Gaiden] With Pride in Your Heart 36:28 [Echoes] Ending Theme 1 38:09 [Gaiden] The Course of Gods and Men 40:49 [Echoes] Ending Theme 2 47:06 [Gaiden] The Voice That Calls You 50:42 [Echoes For mobile users
Honestly considering what they had to work with back on the NES I think they did an absolutely astounding job on the soundtrack and SoV just makes them even better. This game deserves more respect imo.
@@finnTheConquest Lucky bastard. You got to play the Japan-only games on the consoles. Japan got so many great games that the U.S. never received. It's a bit sad. We didn't get FE1-6, DQ5, FF5, and many more amazing games.
I think this has the best soundtrack of any game. Also the story is probably the most dynamic of all of the games. There's such a emotional state attached to both Alm and Celica and I really love both their characters.
I wasn’t really a fan of Alm and Celica’s relationship. They knew each other for a bit as kids, meet up as adults and hate each other, then meet up again and wanna get married. They could’ve went a bit more in depth about why they were so special to each other and why their argument is significant enough to divide them but not enough to destroy their friendship. Still a fun game though.
I get blown away every time hearing how much Celica Map 2 improved. It was not that great to start with and they made Sacrifice and the Saint into one of the best tracks in the game
Alm kinda look like he was in Gaiden(at least for me) but Celica look so much different now, it's like it's not even the same girl anymore. And yeah Valbar haha, well glad they redesigned all the characters in Echoes.
Deen and Sonya look better in Gaiden. Check Fire Emblem wiki for reference. Especially Deen. Why did they change his amazing 80's High Flat Top hairstyle? He looked like Dolph Lundgren! Now he looks like a basic mercenary character... boring....
@@KeyleeTamirian Multiple characters in gaiden have the same portraits as others. Same with Deen and Blake, another boss character. Blake in Echoes is the one that kept the design of the portrait they shared in gaiden. Given what the characters are like and their roles in the game, I’d say Deen’s new look made more sense.
That last track still gives me goosebumps, the orchestrated tunes are amazing, damn near perfect, but just the masterful playing of the guitar... *Shudders* It is so good!
Historically, that's how some armor was kind of made, so ruclips.net/video/lBtvS5yhTA8/видео.html This dude talks about it briefly at 4:30(and there's a lot of other interesting stuff, too!)
Everyone here commenting on how amazing SoV soundtrack is, and while I 100% agree, you gotta remember the VAST improvement Gaiden made over Dark Dragon. Both of Celica's map themes, both 1 and 2 pushed the limits of the sound quality that was avaliable on NES systems at that time in the late 1980's early 1990's.
This is definitely my favorite Fire Emblem soundtrack. However, I think I eventually got tired of hearing the same songs on the battlefields as often as I did.
A year late but whatever Both What lies at the end and The Sacrifice and the Saint are almost complete recompositions of Alm/Celica Map 2 while Duma’s/ Mila’s Ordeal are almost 1 to 1 remixes of Alm/Celica map 2
To respond to your question four years later, I'm pretty sure it's not Valbar, but rather Deusaix, the disk 1 boss you have to kill to reclaim Zofia before marching into Rigel
6:07 Perhaps The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess took inspiration from this track? It sort of sounds like Midna's Lament. Edit: Okay, not sort of...it sounds A LOT like that theme. Go and listen to Midna's Lament if you don't believe me.
The Fell God's Tempest position is understandable, it's actually the only theme that is a direct adaption of Duma's Boss Theme. The Mad God's Blessings is inspired by a very similar theme to that of Duma's boss battle and that theme is, funny enough, the same theme that Duma's Scourge (Duma Temple's exploration) is inspired of, the Enemy Phase theme of the Final Map; which is also used for exploring Duma Temple instead of the usual Dungeon Exploration themes (Story 2: Underground and Story 4: Tower) The Mad God's Blessing is the more direct successor of Final Map EP's rhythm as well as it's eerie and unnerving; Duma's Scourge instead is a more somber, slower (but also with added sauce with the chorus) version of Final Map EP, to make it fit better as an exploration theme. I imagine the reason why this video choose to represent Duma's Scourge instead of The Mad God's Blessing is because is the first of the two versions of the Final Map EP that we get to hear. I personally could have chosen The Mad God's Blessings because is easier to compare with the original. But the point is that The Fell God's Tempest position can't be replaced.
Im fine with most of the Echoes soundtrack with a few being worlds better than Gaiden's, BUT goddamn the enemy phase battle music was so good in Gaiden. I think they messed that one up making it too airy and unclear. That 13/8 figure did super well and actually GROOVED in an intense way when it and the drum accompaniment was 2/3 of the track's texture. In the remake the main impression are those thick horn chords which are pretty annoying to hear over and over again compared to the stripped down fusion-y stacked fourths of the original
This is the best adaptation of an NES soundtrack I have ever heard. So many remakes just slap on updated synth sounds, but the composers here put so much care into arranging every single piece in a way that makes it sound like it was actually meant to be played by an orchestra. Even the more drastic changes they made had a lot of thought put into how they would improve on the intended tone in the context of what is going on in the story.
@@maximumbeans9310 The original soundtrack feels like it was meant to be played by an orchestra, which I can't really say I've felt the same for the first game. I wonder why they didn't put this game, and possibly even the first game, on the Super Famicom. The first game was released a few months before the Super Famicom was released in Japan and the Megadrive was out in Japan since 1988. The latest licensed game on the NES was Wario Woods in 1994 (or however that title is spelled gramatically). I have no idea why developers in Japan in the late 80s and throughout the 90s would be so reluctant to move to better hardware when they could create a more complete presentation.
I absolute love when remakes go the extra mile to replicate the music of the original game and capture that same feeling and spirit.
What other NES titles are remastered?
@@lassellie5770 1 year development hell marches in the corporate gulag. That's why. Its also why many of them never work in the industry again like Team SILENT did. It goes from 2-4 years of making something good to wanting a "return on investment NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!" and shitting out generic anime games over a single year like they have over the last decade that are all identical to each other.
I didn’t like the game, story, or most of the cast BUT the OST is outstanding! Best Nintendo OST, best fire emblem ost, what any remake ost should be!
I am blown away by how the soundtrack was adapted. Echoes took some great pieces and made them GRAND. I really have no words.
i'm still really surprised at how fucking amazing the music ost was originally composed even though it dated back years ago. and the remastered versions just fucked me up man jhwrbfuierbg
The OST was produced decades ago, actually, but the music still slaps.
@@windmage0168 Years, decades. Either way. @oompaloompa was still correct.
Chapter 1 (To Sofia - Alm's Setting Off) 0:00 [Gaiden] Where the Wind Rustles 1:42 [Echoes] Village 2:39 [Gaiden] Uprising 3:29 [Echoes] Alm Map 1 4:17 [Gaiden] March to Deliverance 5:11 [Echoes] World Map Chapter 2 (Celica's Journey) 6:10 [Gaiden] The Ark of Dawn 7:28 [Echoes] Celica Map 1 8:54 [Gaiden] With Mila's Divine Protection 9:56 [Echoes] Fight 1 11:10 [Gaiden] The Dauntless Blade 11:38 [Echoes] Chapter 3 (Liberation Battle - Each Road) 12:05 [Gaiden] Chapter 3 (War of Deliverance) 13:01 [Echoes] Celica Map 2 14:03 [Gaiden] The Sacrifice and the Saint 14:51 [Echoes] Encounter 16:47 [Gaiden] Unity 17:24 [Echoes] Chapter 4 (Land of Sorrow) 18:51 [Gaiden] A Song for Bygone Days 20:12 [Echoes] Tower 21:48 [Gaiden] The Pinnacle of False Belief 22:20 [Echoes] Boss Battle 24:20 [Gaiden] Warring Powers 24:36 [Echoes] Forest of Resurrection 24:54 [Gaiden] Melody of Water 25:07 [Echoes] Chapter 5 (Reunion, and Then...) 25:19 [Gaiden] Truth 26:31 [Echoes] Final Map 28:15 [Gaiden] Twilight of the Gods 28:58 [Echoes] Final Map Opponent 32:56 [Gaiden] Duma's Scourge 33:48 [Echoes] Final Boss Battle 35:14 [Gaiden] The Fell God's Tempest 35:38 [Echoes] Castle (March) 36:04 [Gaiden] With Pride in Your Heart 36:28 [Echoes] Ending Theme 1 38:09 [Gaiden] The Course of Gods and Men 40:49 [Echoes] Ending Theme 2 47:06 [Gaiden] The Voice That Calls You 50:42 [Echoes
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Echoes OST is eargasm at its best
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Honestly considering what they had to work with back on the NES I think they did an absolutely astounding job on the soundtrack and SoV just makes them even better. This game deserves more respect imo.
I love the charm of those old 8bit game music but damn they did this remakes well.
"Twilight of the Gods" is a gift to mankind.
redhawkmillenium super awesome for Final battle, played in nes when i young, i like this song.
Literally
@@finnTheConquest Lucky bastard. You got to play the Japan-only games on the consoles. Japan got so many great games that the U.S. never received. It's a bit sad. We didn't get FE1-6, DQ5, FF5, and many more amazing games.
I think this has the best soundtrack of any game. Also the story is probably the most dynamic of all of the games. There's such a emotional state attached to both Alm and Celica and I really love both their characters.
I wasn’t really a fan of Alm and Celica’s relationship. They knew each other for a bit as kids, meet up as adults and hate each other, then meet up again and wanna get married. They could’ve went a bit more in depth about why they were so special to each other and why their argument is significant enough to divide them but not enough to destroy their friendship.
Still a fun game though.
@@Paragon13 i kind of wish alm choose the real partner that fight alongside him, like either Claire or Faye
I get blown away every time hearing how much Celica Map 2 improved. It was not that great to start with and they made Sacrifice and the Saint into one of the best tracks in the game
I heard the Gaiden one for a few seconds then switched to the Echoes version and GOOD LORD my man you are absolutely right
Sacrifice and the Saint is the best song in the series, in my opinion.
Thanks for this video; it's really cool to see the difference between a game and its remake!
Shadows of Valentia may have a better soundtrack, but does it have Alm crotch guard? Exactly: point proven...
To protect us from it
@@dayalasingh5853 it's huge...
March to deliverance reminds me of death mountain in a link between worlds
Alm kinda look like he was in Gaiden(at least for me) but Celica look so much different now, it's like it's not even the same girl anymore. And yeah Valbar haha, well glad they redesigned all the characters in Echoes.
youb should see nuibaba's gaiden appearance
They at least brought back her old outfit, plus a cape for some reason, in Fire Emblem Heroes.
Deen and Sonya look better in Gaiden. Check Fire Emblem wiki for reference.
Especially Deen. Why did they change his amazing 80's High Flat Top hairstyle? He looked like Dolph Lundgren! Now he looks like a basic mercenary character... boring....
@@KeyleeTamirian Nah.
@@KeyleeTamirian Multiple characters in gaiden have the same portraits as others. Same with Deen and Blake, another boss character. Blake in Echoes is the one that kept the design of the portrait they shared in gaiden. Given what the characters are like and their roles in the game, I’d say Deen’s new look made more sense.
One of the best remakes ever made
That last track still gives me goosebumps, the orchestrated tunes are amazing, damn near perfect, but just the masterful playing of the guitar... *Shudders* It is so good!
Pulling all the tracks together and even time stamping, this is a ton of work. Amazing stuff my friend, and thanks!
Who else gets the feels when they hear Truth at 26:31? I totally need to use this in one of my vids!
Shadow Strike me its land of sorrow
louis de malestroit. Yep.
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I love 90's rpg music haha
Why with the dong armor on almost every male character?
Women kick hard xd
Historically, that's how some armor was kind of made, so
ruclips.net/video/lBtvS5yhTA8/видео.html This dude talks about it briefly at 4:30(and there's a lot of other interesting stuff, too!)
CZ IT'S AWESOME AND NOBODY CAN DENY THAT
Lmao D O N G
The only reason why Faye only likes Alm in SoV is because his crotch guard from Gaiden protected him from thots.
The glow up that is The Sacrifice and the Saint.
Damn, the FE2's music still holds up despite being NES. FE15 though is a masterpiece.
I think I never appreciated how good the soundtrack was when playing the game, but truly it is one of the most beautiful soundtracks ever made. 10/10
Everyone here commenting on how amazing SoV soundtrack is, and while I 100% agree, you gotta remember the VAST improvement Gaiden made over Dark Dragon. Both of Celica's map themes, both 1 and 2 pushed the limits of the sound quality that was avaliable on NES systems at that time in the late 1980's early 1990's.
IS was also pushing the limits of the 3DS with Echoes, most certainly.
This is definitely my favorite Fire Emblem soundtrack. However, I think I eventually got tired of hearing the same songs on the battlefields as often as I did.
Im glad the redesigned the characters. They use to look just aweful
Absolutely not.
They looked horrible
It came out in the 90s. Cut it some slack. xD
My question is why is valbar on the cover?
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It's the 90s genius they had different original styles
damn why do both osts slap so fucking hard
Celica Map 2 is more similar to Mila's Ordeal than The Sacrifice and the Saint.
A year late but whatever
Both What lies at the end and The Sacrifice and the Saint are almost complete recompositions of Alm/Celica Map 2
while Duma’s/ Mila’s Ordeal are almost 1 to 1 remixes of Alm/Celica map 2
Is... Is that Valbar? Behind Celica and Alm? What in the everloving fuck is bara daddy doing there?
Dat underbite on Valbar tho
To respond to your question four years later, I'm pretty sure it's not Valbar, but rather Deusaix, the disk 1 boss you have to kill to reclaim Zofia before marching into Rigel
I never heard Ending 1 anywhere only Ending 2... and my god! Thank you for this
Echoes is my favorite FE OST. I think from beginning to end it is just so beautifully crafted.
6:07 Perhaps The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess took inspiration from this track? It sort of sounds like Midna's Lament.
Edit: Okay, not sort of...it sounds A LOT like that theme. Go and listen to Midna's Lament if you don't believe me.
2:45 from the Village also shares the main melody of Midnas theme.
@@Prisoner-gk6lr Honestly the village theme reminds me of Midna’s theme the most.
So glad I got the Limited edition in my collection today 🐍
3DS or NES, still being amazing 28:15
43:55 huge ace attorney vibe here
Just realized... Celica map was not the name of the remix they did for Smash Bros Brawl! They didn't credit the song right!
I would like for some Fire emblem 4, 5 and Echoes music to make it into smash! I can already think of some good tunes to duke it out too :)
nypad5 you got your wish man, a few echoes tracks made it in plus a couple or remixed versions and 1 genalogy made it as a remix too.
Gaidens soundtrack is extremely impressive considering it was on the nes, still holds up today
Celica not only has by far the best party in the game but also the best music in both games.
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Why is Valbar even on the cover
he was supposed to be a whole ass third path originally
You can not contain the chin of the legend
Hey, did you miss Alm Map 2 and What Lies at the End, or are they just not in the description?
Don’t think it was in Gaiden.
It was but also kinda not. Alm Map 2 in Gaiden was just remixed Alm Map 1 rather than a different song
Alm map 2 is Duma's Ordeal in echoes.
Me and the homies go sicko when alm map 1 plays
26:31 eargasm
I think for 14:51 the shadows of valentia theme "Mila's ordeal" match better than "the sacifice and the saint"
Truth is the best song in Echoes.
Instead of The Fell God’s Tempest, you should have used The Mad God's Blessings. It's the REAL theme of Duma. and is twice as terrifying.
The Fell God's Tempest position is understandable, it's actually the only theme that is a direct adaption of Duma's Boss Theme.
The Mad God's Blessings is inspired by a very similar theme to that of Duma's boss battle and that theme is, funny enough, the same theme that Duma's Scourge (Duma Temple's exploration) is inspired of, the Enemy Phase theme of the Final Map; which is also used for exploring Duma Temple instead of the usual Dungeon Exploration themes (Story 2: Underground and Story 4: Tower)
The Mad God's Blessing is the more direct successor of Final Map EP's rhythm as well as it's eerie and unnerving; Duma's Scourge instead is a more somber, slower (but also with added sauce with the chorus) version of Final Map EP, to make it fit better as an exploration theme.
I imagine the reason why this video choose to represent Duma's Scourge instead of The Mad God's Blessing is because is the first of the two versions of the Final Map EP that we get to hear. I personally could have chosen The Mad God's Blessings because is easier to compare with the original.
But the point is that The Fell God's Tempest position can't be replaced.
Is there a comparison for Shadow Dragon and FE1's music or New Mystery and FE3's music?
What Lies at the End is it’s own work!! Correct me if I’m wrong, but Alm Map 2 doesn’t exist??
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It does indeed. Duma’s Ordeal is a 1-to-1 recomposition of Alm Map 2. What Lies At the End is a complete recomposition.
Does such a soundtrack comparison exist for FE3 Mystery of the Emblem and FE12 New Mystery of the Emblem?
Am I allowed to use this in one of my art videos?
If you're talking about the music, it's not mine so you don't need permission :P
Oh ok. Thanks for telling me but I wanna use your video. If you just made this to tell the comparison, then I'll use it.
you can use any part of this video
I gotta say, Super Smash Bros. has the best version of Celica Map 1.
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Im fine with most of the Echoes soundtrack with a few being worlds better than Gaiden's, BUT goddamn the enemy phase battle music was so good in Gaiden. I think they messed that one up making it too airy and unclear. That 13/8 figure did super well and actually GROOVED in an intense way when it and the drum accompaniment was 2/3 of the track's texture. In the remake the main impression are those thick horn chords which are pretty annoying to hear over and over again compared to the stripped down fusion-y stacked fourths of the original
These songs are bomb on 2 times speed
Alm's dong armor.
4:22
Fire emblem gaiden sound like Pokémon red music
alm wasnt that radically changed
This game had such a great soundtrack and story. Sadly the gameplay was so damn boring
I prefer the original recruitment theme tbh
Kris you must like ryoma, huh?
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Kris the new one reminds me of magnus's theme in kid icarus
I like Tower over The Pinnacle of False Belief.
The organ and male choir doesn't beat the nice simple crunch of the original in my opinion.
@@alexsonic7 Nope, they add more flavor and an ominous feeling compared to simple 8 bit beeps.
I don't care about nostalgia...that NES stuff sounds awful (don't get me wrong, if you like it then it's alright, but my ears hurt after a while)
Echoes ost is trash
Yeah, I fucking said it
Wow, you got shit taste.
Man makes headlines with just 6 words!
"Echoes' original sound track is trash" he states. There was a street brawl only 10 seconds later.
@@saltyralts and I still stand by my opinion
Explain.
@@joshuagarcia4077 nice username btw