Gauntlet IV also showcased some of the best music and best sounding music on the Genesis. There's tons of a amazing music for this console that too many people whose biases refuse to let them recognize.
This soundtrack is absolutely fantastic. Without a doubt, one of the best soundtracks in this series. Not only does it pay homage to some of the older gems of this series (Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears, Simon's Theme, and Beginning), but it has a lot of great original songs of its own. Perfect for the season of Halloween too. And that's saying a lot considering Bloodlines was the first and only game in the series that was made for the Sega Genesis.
@@ronmower Actually, Michiru Yamane (the composer) explained the song title 8 months ago in the description of her video when she played this on piano: Intentionは、目的という意味です。 直訳すると、アイアンブルーの意図という意味のタイトルです。 「ドイツ兵器工場」ステージのBGMでした。 なんとなくですが、ドイツ=青（Blue）、兵器=鋼鉄=鉄（Iron）というイメージからこのタイトルをつけたのだと思います。 (in English) Intention means (in Japanese) purpose/intention. If you translate literally it means (in Japanese) "Iron Blue Intention". The BGM is for the stage "German Armory". Somehow or another I think I connected the title from the imagery of German = Blue, Armory = Steel = Iron. ruclips.net/video/YrW22JzZ0kM/видео.html So she associated German with the color blue for some reason. The intention of German iron...
In my opinion, it is too short, but otherwise it would be perfect. Divine Bloodlines from Rondo of Blood is better in my opinion. I still think this is one of the best soundtracks in the series, but I am not knowledgeable enough to say it is the best of them all.
Konami may not have assigned their best programmers for games on the Genesis, but Michiru Yamane made a very special soundtrack that showed that the Genesis sound chip could make great music.
Yes. totally agree, and as a musician, i just am amazed at how hard it is to write such music. listen to the melody alone and be amazed. I have a sega genesis music player , you can solo each instrument. just wow
Late to the party, but in the game itself there are a few empty rooms in a row to go through to enjoy the music. There are no enemies to fight from when it starts playing to when it ends. Definitely my favourite song in the game, would just listen to it on the soundtest forever and wait for it to loop on the actual stage when I got there.
The beautiful thing about 16-bit music is how it can be as dynamic and as colorful as a realistic performance without getting in the way of your gaming experience. Most modern games soundtraxks have a tendency to make everything sound big and then compressed it to hell and the overly compressed quality of what is supposed to be a realistic sound never fail to distract me and makes my head dizzy. So much so I usually turn the music off when playing modern games.
Jesus Christ. Thank you sir for putting up such a high quality recording of this amazing sound the Genesis is capable of. This soundtrack is simply brilliant. There is such a mood from this CV that it is just one of my all time favorites of the franchise. I can actually blast this and it sounds incredible, shakes the damn house on Theme of Simon. Thank you for capturing the essence of the Genesis sound! You sir have earned a subscriber. :)
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King of the Monsters 2 has some good tracks, I think I have listened to all of your youtube vids and I have been coming around on the OOZE soundtrack, the more I listen to it, the more I like it. If I am feeling the genesis soundtrack vibe man, I listen to your stuff because I know it's got such a pure sound in it, especially in the midtones and bass which is one of genesis' strengths. But requests, Certainly more Konami games, Zombies ate my Neighbors, Contra Hard Corps. Good ones at the top of my head. Love Adventure of Batman and Robin soundtrack, just because it's a moody synth fest.but yeah man keep it going dude!
Not gonna lie, I prefer this game over SCIV. While SCIV is still an awesome game, I think Bloodlines is superior in terms of aesthetics, soundtrack, and gameplay.
i dont think so..Blooodlines has way better atmosphere..the sunset in Greece..the Pisa platforming section..The confusion in Proserpina..and the music kills Super Castlevania 4 bar none!!!!
shadowshinobi06 To me, SCIV's soundtrack is mostly generic, bland, and forgettable, aside from the epicness that is Simon's theme and the Bloody Tears remix. Bloodlines, on the other hand, has a mostly upbeat and rocking soundtrack. Reincarnated Soul, Iron Blue Intention, Sinking Old Sanctuary, Calling from Heaven, these are just some of the awesome tracks in the game. But if you prefer SCIV over this game, that's fine by me.
shadowshinobi06 Just heard Forest of Monsters, and it's an alright track. Guess I must've put it along the rest of the soundtrack. I still prefer Bloodlines'soundtrack, though.
+shadowshinobi I dunno, CV4's graphics and music feel too dark and gritty to me. While the music did fit the game better it doesn't stand as well on its own. The graphics here are a lot crisper and cleaner. The rotating room and the spinning room also feel really tech-demo-y and aren't really any scarier than the Pisa platforming section. And sure, the whip was stronger but you could only swing it off specific hooks and it made the subweapons not worth it.
Hands down the best Castlevania game of the 16 bit generation. The soundtrack is amazing! You got to love the way the Mega Drive showcases music. This game was and is a masterpiece. The graphics, music, sound effects & gameplay is top notch. This one of them games again that showcased the power of the Mega Drive the 16 Bit Power House that brought the Arcade Experience home better than the PC Engine and SNES IMO. Man you got to love the Mega Drive/Genesis! My favorite castlevania games 1. Bloodlines - Sega Mega Drive 2. Rondo - PC Engine 3. Dracula's Curse - Nes 4. Super Castlevania IV - SNES
Honestly I prefer Rondo of Blood, it has a lot of stages, a lot of bosses and alternate routes, however Bloodlines is my second favorite 16 bit castlevania, 6 stages might sound like few, but once you get to them you get why, they're enormous, with two bosses in each of them, and the replayability value with 2 characters is great, it's a better pick up and play type of game, more like the first Castlevania on the NES
I'd put this as the best Castlevania OST followed probably by Rondo of Blood then Symphony of the Night. The use of the sound chip in this is masterful.
9:23 The Bloodlines theme! Michiru Yamane reused this piece in Portrait of Ruin and it's 5000x more epic. Kinda irritated that Konami tossed out Igarashi and Co. with the trash. "Metroidvania" was becoming something I looked forward to.
The continued use of synth tones didn't move Castlevania soundtracks forward much technologically. But, compositionally, this is more fitting and more interesting to me than the "bells and whistles"-like soundtracks of SotN and SCIV due their bizarre use of jazz stylings and even singing.
The use of jazz stylings and singing doesn't make those soundtracks any less fitting or interesting. Quite the contrary. And the synth tones in this one couldn't be helped, as the Sega Genesis sound chip is a reduced form of the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, but Konami played to its strengths, which is only smart.
Trying to step back and be as self-divorced, and objective as possible, looking at SNES sound vs Genesis sound vs PCE/TG16 sound overall, I really am forced to declare a "too-close-to-call" relative three-way tie. Speaking in terms of my more subjective, personal preference feelings, SNES definitely comes in third, but it's a really tight fight between Genesis and PCE. Heck, I might almost have a slight lean towards PCE, to be honest. Still, all three great sources for some of the best VGM of all time...even SNES. :-)
9:23 the best music. The hardest level. The collection on the Switch is the best money I’ve ever spent. Can’t believe I missed this gem of a game growing up.
This game is so badass that even the 'game over' track sounds rewarding! The tunes not only perfectly set the mood for each stage as they inspire the player to go on, making the closing credits tune the true achievement of the game. Afterall, we all know Dracula will just arise once again, over and over...
This game is so slept on. Along with Castlevania 3, this is my favorite of the traditional CV games, and as with every CV game (except Harmony of Dissonance....) the soundtrack is top-notch.
Sega Lord X got me into this game with his review and also placing it atop his top 10. I would have absolutely loved this game as a kid, if I had known it existed or what it was about. As an adult, it's harder for me to get into platformers, but this one is such a work of art that it's now a top-5 Genesis game for me (and I'm mainly a sports gamer).
Castlevania was one franchise that took supreme advantage of the Genesis and Super Nintendo's strengths and weaknesses. Super Castlevania had more ambient, fitting tunes, a super-powerful whip, two rooms that made great use of Mode 7, and more stages. This game has more elaborate tunes, a creative new subweapon, some rooms that really exercised blast processing, and more variety within each stage. Now I wonder why Konami didn't do the same with Contra...
one of my favorite intro themes... elizbeth slowly panning in and out of the foreground, menacingly contamplating what her next corse of action to do to get one step closer... *to resurrecting Dracula* She's one character I'd love coming back as a female dracula, or by Dracula himself. she's one of those characters who was ahead of a characters time (mainly console wise too)
It's one of the better examples of good FM synthesis along with stage 4, 5, and 6 as well. I'd highly recommend checking out the OST for Gauntlet IV on the Genesis as well it's every bit as much of a masterpiece. I wish it had more midi tracks that people have recomposed from it because they are fantastic tracks.
I remember being a 4-5 year old in the early 90's. The video store i rented this game from had laminated all of the pages of the book. If only i understood that this game would be the cash cow it is today..
I guess I only mentioned 7 because I wasn't sure if it was in 7/4 or 7/8 time though I would lean on the second. The ostinato in the background is 7 notes and the melody/harmony builds off it.
@@scottevensen2615 thanks, I know nothing about music theory or anything LMAO I dont even know what kind of genre the OST's from Castlevania games belong to, all I know is that I effing love them :D
This is the best Castlevania game. Best soundtrack. Great original songs but also the definitive version of bloody tears and Simon's theme as well, the gutteral bassy sounds that the Genesis can produce is unparalleled and matches the dark tone of the game perfectly.
I understand that, but a lot of people's hardware sounds as if they dragged their nasty balls across all the DIP packages on the board And if you look at my channel you can listen to it... The video I'm not sure about, either my caps are going bad, my PVR sucks, or my Genesis is being fed a dirty power signal... My DC brick is putting out clean DC, so it could be the on-board Voltage Regulators or a mix of Regulator/Caps causing the issue Looks like Ripple but it's not effecting my audio so honestly I don't know... If it was the caps my audio should be affected.
Somethings definitely up with the video though because I get really bad jail-barring on my CRT. So It's honestly probably the caps, which I'm replacing at some point when I start using my Genesis daily again.
+xLDKx NewYorker It's this, get some good quality low-ESR caps in there. You can also get a slight improvement by disconnecting the audio pin on the CXA1145, you can either just leave it off and do a stereo mod or actually even safely reconnect it, just bypassing the chip. I have no idea why they feed audio through it at all actually other than it's there, it doesn't affect the audio output at all.
Sinking Old Sanctuary is just so soothing and hauntingly beautiful...it beats the living shit out of Super Castlevania 4 boring soundtrack..with the exception of the Rotating Room Theme and the 1st form of Dracula theme and the Ending Credits as well.other than that.Bloodlines soundtrack shits all over SC4.seriously
Ah, the typical “I’m retarded enough to not appreciate different approaches to music and intention” opinion. What is the point in comparing the two? One is atmospheric and the other is clearly action oriented with emphasis on catchy themes.
Yo Dustin, I hope you don't mind that I referred someone here. XD He said how Konami butchered this track on the Genesis, and I told him to hear the real thing because he heard it on an emulator. And we all know you don't do that here.
God, I hate emulators... Model 1 VA6... I really need to service it :'( Could use some recommendations on Music to listen to/upload. Already put some of my favorites up
+xLDKx NewYorker It's possible for an emulator the simulate this sound chip to the point where any differences aren't noticeable. I think the better genesis emulators like kega fusion, gens plus gx, and especially exodus are close enough that most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I personally can only hear differences in certain spots, and only if I'm listening for them. The only thing holding them back is lack of documentation on how the chip works at a low level.
the best emulator in terms of sound emulation at the moment is Genesis Plus GX due to its (optional) use of a cycle accurate emulator based on die shots of the YM3438 and YM2612
Without question my favorite soundtrack on the Genesis. Can I possibly get copies of your recordings? The only mp3's I have of this glorious soundtrack were from some CD release that added reverb to everything so it sounds "grander" than the original.
never played the game, but this is a really nice soundtrack - tons of little nods to previous castlevania games, but they're all very subtle, e.g. taking half of a melody from an NES castlevania game and putting it into a new context. sounds like part of the heritage without being a carbon copy. i do prefer that grandiose/dramatic sound that rondo of blood and scv4 went with (to be fair, i've actually played those games), but this is a cool addition to the franchise nonetheless and it really fits the genesis sound.
03:27 Oh -__- So many good memories with this one :( Childhood, such a wonderful time of life. Too bad, i understand it only now, when i am far for 30.
The only thing that was close to the Castlevania music back in time was Rondo Veneziano, im prety sure that those classical cross pop music was released in Japan and inspired most of the Konami composer at the time, that and and some neo classical metal like yngwie malmsteen or Europe ^^
NES and SNES could always boast about having most Castlevania games, but no one even comes close to Bloodlines - except maybe Rondo of Blood on PC Engine. The soundtrack is absolutely out of this world
@@wallacesousuke1433 I would strongly disagree. I think this Castlevania is super smooth in terms of gameplay. It has that distinct castelvania feel, but much better than the old games.
@@Fighter101network I can't stand the clunky, unfair gameplay design of "Classicvanias".. A pity though, the art style, enemy design and soundtracks are amazing but playing them is a huge chore and nowhere near as fun and technical as SotN-era CV's.
@@wallacesousuke1433 While I love SOTN, the gameplay was the one aspect I didn't find so appealing. It was just too easy most of the time. You always felt like the game was designed to be a walk in the park so that you could enjoy the scenery.
Used to play this all the time back when my sega genesis still worked. Still got the original cartridge, along with that game genie thing I never knew how to use :P
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Man, I never realized how absolutely fire this soundtrack is...
I wonder how they made Genesis' chip sound so heavenly
What were you playing? hahaha impossible to miss,
@@GekkaGekkaGekka I played several times before as a youngling, before I could appreciate good music like this.
@@rockid7970 That's Konami for ya. ;)
Fire yo'
This is a textbook example of how to do music on the Genesis. Konami and Technosoft really rocked that chip!
And Yuzo Koshiro.
Blast Mode Processing FX 7 Streets of Rage FTW!!
Gauntlet IV also showcased some of the best music and best sounding music on the Genesis. There's tons of a amazing music for this console that too many people whose biases refuse to let them recognize.
+Gamevet It sounds great, except for the drums.
Alianger The hand drums sound alright. The snare drum could use a little tightening up.
For the people who thought Michiru Yamane began in SOTN: You're wrong.
In fact, I beleive all platforms being considered equally, THIS was better than SOTN, music-wise. More pure.
@@raver208 Absolutely.
@@raver208 "more pure" what does that even mean?
@@wallacesousuke1433 pure fm sound
@@wallacesousuke1433 And also SOTN is a CD based OST
This soundtrack is absolutely fantastic. Without a doubt, one of the best soundtracks in this series. Not only does it pay homage to some of the older gems of this series (Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears, Simon's Theme, and Beginning), but it has a lot of great original songs of its own. Perfect for the season of Halloween too. And that's saying a lot considering Bloodlines was the first and only game in the series that was made for the Sega Genesis.
Agreed. Konami could make the Genesis SING. Some of the best music the system ever put out.
Amen to that. Also, this game's OST is perfect for Halloween season.
Been playing this on the Genesis Mini. First Castlevania game, and it's really good so far.
Iron-Blue Intention is SO GOOD!
Castlevania Bloodlines sega MSU-MD patch/parche (CD music quality)(musica calidad CD) + descarga/download-* ruclips.net/video/krEtnwluqrU/видео.html
Agreed. I'm sure they had good "Iron Blue" intentions when they composed this track...
@@ronmower
Actually, Michiru Yamane (the composer) explained the song title 8 months ago in the description of her video when she played this on piano:
Intentionは、目的という意味です。
直訳すると、アイアンブルーの意図という意味のタイトルです。
「ドイツ兵器工場」ステージのBGMでした。
なんとなくですが、ドイツ=青（Blue）、兵器=鋼鉄=鉄（Iron）というイメージからこのタイトルをつけたのだと思います。
(in English) Intention means (in Japanese) purpose/intention.
If you translate literally it means (in Japanese) "Iron Blue Intention".
The BGM is for the stage "German Armory".
Somehow or another I think I connected the title from the imagery of German = Blue, Armory = Steel = Iron.
ruclips.net/video/YrW22JzZ0kM/видео.html
So she associated German with the color blue for some reason.
The intention of German iron...
Actually, my favorite track from the whole series. Such a masterpiece
The first CV game you ever played or?
After so many years, I realize just how good this soundtrack is...
It was so disrespected back then by snes fan boys.
@@splatinum837 And now too.
Better late than never.
@@splatinum837 Sadly, still is. Still my favorite Castlevania OST and, perhaps, my favorite game from the entire series. Absolutely love this game.
That theme and first song is eargasmic. 🤤
MAN, can Michiru Yamane not write a bad song? This is just perfect! One badass song after another. Michiru deserves to get more credit than she does.
3:27... best theme from this and all castlevanias!!!!
Enrique Alessandro Castro Cisneros Not really. Reincarnated Soul is a grossly underrated classic.
Minato Arisato I prefer Heart of Fire but this is also great
Enrique Alessandro Castro Cisneros do you know what an opinion is?
u know it ;)
In my opinion, it is too short, but otherwise it would be perfect. Divine Bloodlines from Rondo of Blood is better in my opinion. I still think this is one of the best soundtracks in the series, but I am not knowledgeable enough to say it is the best of them all.
Underated fucking game, the game play and the music are superb!
rippinkorpse While I like Super Castlevania IV, I prefer this game over it.
@ imho i think both are equally good, specially on the graphics and ost
@@dm-lo4kx no you like castle vania lords of shadows 2
Hands down, one of the best Castlevania soundtracks.
Best
@@SketchTurnerZero laughs in SotN, AoS, LoI, DoS, PoR, OoE, SC4
@@wallacesousuke1433 all of this is overrated shit. Especially SotN
@@SketchTurnerZero salty that your little Sega exclusive is irrelevant and forgotten?
@@wallacesousuke1433 try harder 😀
Konami may not have assigned their best programmers for games on the Genesis, but Michiru Yamane made a very special soundtrack that showed that the Genesis sound chip could make great music.
and guys from technosoft ,vic tokai
@@LordDeBahs and let's not forget Wolf Team. Motoi Sakuraba did wonders with this chip.
one of the best castlevania game of all time
Underrated for sure!
+Adller Demetrio The music is phenomenal, and the graphics are so attractive.
*the best
Yes, yes it is!
Lol for me it's a tie between this and the X68000 version of Castlevania
13:03 Calling from Heaven is probably my favourite theme from the whole Castlevania saga
Woww its really epic
Yes. totally agree, and as a musician, i just am amazed at how hard it is to write such music. listen to the melody alone and be amazed. I have a sega genesis music player , you can solo each instrument. just wow
Oh my goodness that Theme of Simon has the most EPIC buildup! (22:58)
+Medachod Agreed. I had the SNES version and this version of the game and both are great but this rendition is exemplary. =)
i like it too!!!
Late to the party, but in the game itself there are a few empty rooms in a row to go through to enjoy the music. There are no enemies to fight from when it starts playing to when it ends. Definitely my favourite song in the game, would just listen to it on the soundtest forever and wait for it to loop on the actual stage when I got there.
Hands down the best Simon’s theme IMO
Simon's proud of this.
One time I listened to Iron Blue Intention for 2 hours straight on a drive home from university.
22:58 one of the BEST MUSIC EVER!!!
The beautiful thing about 16-bit music is how it can be as dynamic and as colorful as a realistic performance without getting in the way of your gaming experience. Most modern games soundtraxks have a tendency to make everything sound big and then compressed it to hell and the overly compressed quality of what is supposed to be a realistic sound never fail to distract me and makes my head dizzy. So much so I usually turn the music off when playing modern games.
Jesus Christ. Thank you sir for putting up such a high quality recording of this amazing sound the Genesis is capable of. This soundtrack is simply brilliant. There is such a mood from this CV that it is just one of my all time favorites of the franchise. I can actually blast this and it sounds incredible, shakes the damn house on Theme of Simon. Thank you for capturing the essence of the Genesis sound! You sir have earned a subscriber. :)
Thanks, comments like this (and everyone else's) mean a lot to me. Do you have any requests? I have a backlog but if there is anything anyone wants to hear in particular I can try to deliver it.
King of the Monsters 2 has some good tracks, I think I have listened to all of your youtube vids and I have been coming around on the OOZE soundtrack, the more I listen to it, the more I like it. If I am feeling the genesis soundtrack vibe man, I listen to your stuff because I know it's got such a pure sound in it, especially in the midtones and bass which is one of genesis' strengths. But requests, Certainly more Konami games, Zombies ate my Neighbors, Contra Hard Corps. Good ones at the top of my head. Love Adventure of Batman and Robin soundtrack, just because it's a moody synth fest.but yeah man keep it going dude!
22:58 Classic and such a haunting build up. Just excellent.
This game must have one of the greatest ending themes ever.
30:43 It has that, and should’ve been, feelings of “saving a princess” or some damsels in distress. I would put it in a game if I had the chance to.
Try listening to dracula battle. That version is epic.
22:58 my favourite song of all the game
Best credits song in all of castlevania.
Not gonna lie, I prefer this game over SCIV. While SCIV is still an awesome game, I think Bloodlines is superior in terms of aesthetics, soundtrack, and gameplay.
+John DiLoreto It does, only this game isn't as hard as Castlevania 1 and 3.
i dont think so..Blooodlines has way better atmosphere..the sunset in Greece..the Pisa platforming section..The confusion in Proserpina..and the music kills Super Castlevania 4 bar none!!!!
shadowshinobi06 To me, SCIV's soundtrack is mostly generic, bland, and forgettable, aside from the epicness that is Simon's theme and the Bloody Tears remix. Bloodlines, on the other hand, has a mostly upbeat and rocking soundtrack. Reincarnated Soul, Iron Blue Intention, Sinking Old Sanctuary, Calling from Heaven, these are just some of the awesome tracks in the game. But if you prefer SCIV over this game, that's fine by me.
shadowshinobi06 Just heard Forest of Monsters, and it's an alright track. Guess I must've put it along the rest of the soundtrack. I still prefer Bloodlines'soundtrack, though.
+shadowshinobi I dunno, CV4's graphics and music feel too dark and gritty to me. While the music did fit the game better it doesn't stand as well on its own. The graphics here are a lot crisper and cleaner. The rotating room and the spinning room also feel really tech-demo-y and aren't really any scarier than the Pisa platforming section. And sure, the whip was stronger but you could only swing it off specific hooks and it made the subweapons not worth it.
Hands down the best Castlevania game of the 16 bit generation. The soundtrack is amazing! You got to love the way the Mega Drive showcases music. This game was and is a masterpiece. The graphics, music, sound effects & gameplay is top notch. This one of them games again that showcased the power of the Mega Drive the 16 Bit Power House that brought the Arcade Experience home better than the PC Engine and SNES IMO. Man you got to love the Mega Drive/Genesis!
My favorite castlevania games
1. Bloodlines - Sega Mega Drive
2. Rondo - PC Engine
3. Dracula's Curse - Nes
4. Super Castlevania IV - SNES
Agreed. People hype up TurboCD Rondo so much, but this one is better.
Honestly I prefer Rondo of Blood, it has a lot of stages, a lot of bosses and alternate routes, however Bloodlines is my second favorite 16 bit castlevania, 6 stages might sound like few, but once you get to them you get why, they're enormous, with two bosses in each of them, and the replayability value with 2 characters is great, it's a better pick up and play type of game, more like the first Castlevania on the NES
I like the gameplay games but the game design is strange.
@@voutespancar In which way is better? rondo is longer, has more replayability and level design is superb.
castlevania has always had the best music in my opinion!!!
One of the Top 3 genesis soundtracks along with sonic 3 and knuckles and sonic 2
and us
I'd put this as the best Castlevania OST followed probably by Rondo of Blood then Symphony of the Night. The use of the sound chip in this is masterful.
9:23 The Bloodlines theme! Michiru Yamane reused this piece in Portrait of Ruin and it's 5000x more epic. Kinda irritated that Konami tossed out Igarashi and Co. with the trash. "Metroidvania" was becoming something I looked forward to.
My man, you should try out Bloodstained Ritual of the Night, it was made by someone you might recognize
9:23 amazing soundtrack
5:43 MY GOD!!!.Like if you're still loving this game so bad.
The continued use of synth tones didn't move Castlevania soundtracks forward much technologically. But, compositionally, this is more fitting and more interesting to me than the "bells and whistles"-like soundtracks of SotN and SCIV due their bizarre use of jazz stylings and even singing.
The use of jazz stylings and singing doesn't make those soundtracks any less fitting or interesting. Quite the contrary. And the synth tones in this one couldn't be helped, as the Sega Genesis sound chip is a reduced form of the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, but Konami played to its strengths, which is only smart.
I remember picking this game up brand new at a Toys R Us...during the PS2 era!!! It totally blew my mind! Great music, great game!
wait what?
THE GENESIS YM 2612 CHIP PERFORMANCE ROCKED THE 16 BIT UNIVERSE HANDS DOWN!
Trying to step back and be as self-divorced, and objective as possible, looking at SNES sound vs Genesis sound vs PCE/TG16 sound overall, I really am forced to declare a "too-close-to-call" relative three-way tie. Speaking in terms of my more subjective, personal preference feelings, SNES definitely comes in third, but it's a really tight fight between Genesis and PCE. Heck, I might almost have a slight lean towards PCE, to be honest. Still, all three great sources for some of the best VGM of all time...even SNES. :-)
i gotta check the PCE out then.
o yes pc engine does has great music, i also like the commodore 64 and up to the
amigas
Nerd Noise Radio A lot of love goes to the Turbo Grafx16 sound. It was great.. that said I prefer the Genny sound by a nose.
9:23 the best music. The hardest level. The collection on the Switch is the best money I’ve ever spent. Can’t believe I missed this gem of a game growing up.
If it had Rondo and SoTN it would be the best thing ever.
@@thenoseguy just Rondo to have al the classicvanias. Symphony would be a cool add on the the advance collection.
@@golions13579 Yeah, that would make more sense.
The melody in Iron-Blue Intention (Stage 4) sounds a lot like Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, 4th movement
I think it's deliberate, I caught that too!
21:14 The best regular boss theme in the whole series IMO. Simple and repetitive, but it always gets me pumped!
This game is so badass that even the 'game over' track sounds rewarding! The tunes not only perfectly set the mood for each stage as they inspire the player to go on, making the closing credits tune the true achievement of the game. Afterall, we all know Dracula will just arise once again, over and over...
The composer is now working on the spiritual successor to Clocktower, she's a genius.
This game is so slept on.
Along with Castlevania 3, this is my favorite of the traditional CV games, and as with every CV game (except Harmony of Dissonance....) the soundtrack is top-notch.
Sega Lord X got me into this game with his review and also placing it atop his top 10. I would have absolutely loved this game as a kid, if I had known it existed or what it was about. As an adult, it's harder for me to get into platformers, but this one is such a work of art that it's now a top-5 Genesis game for me (and I'm mainly a sports gamer).
"The Belmont family tree will die unless you unleash your rage on the undead." Simply awesome!
9:23 Soooo damn epic!!!)
Yes, it is.😆
This game really doesn't get the love it deserves, i fucking adore it.
13:03 Calling from heaven: There is something about this tune that I cannot explain, everytime I heard it make me feel sad.
It sounds like a darker version of a Zelda theme at times. Sounds a little melancholic.
Yes, this is the first time I've listened and that track is the money.
Castlevania was one franchise that took supreme advantage of the Genesis and Super Nintendo's strengths and weaknesses. Super Castlevania had more ambient, fitting tunes, a super-powerful whip, two rooms that made great use of Mode 7, and more stages. This game has more elaborate tunes, a creative new subweapon, some rooms that really exercised blast processing, and more variety within each stage. Now I wonder why Konami didn't do the same with Contra...
"wonder why Konami didn't do the same with Contra..."
They did!
MUTRONICS Kind of, yes, but not to the same extent. For instance, the branching paths probably would've fit a lot better on the Super Nintendo.
" Blast processing " Good one... Sega got a lot of shit for that marketing phrase after it all blew over.
what do you mean "blew over"?
Stage 2 (Greece) music is TOP!!!! Germany´s music too (stage 4)
很难想象我居然是在家里VCD上玩到的游戏，真的很棒！
one of my favorite intro themes... elizbeth slowly panning in and out of the foreground, menacingly contamplating what her next corse of action to do to get one step closer... *to resurrecting Dracula* She's one character I'd love coming back as a female dracula, or by Dracula himself. she's one of those characters who was ahead of a characters time (mainly console wise too)
Simon's Theme really ATTACKS YOU on Genesis... It's in your face like Bam...
It's one of the better examples of good FM synthesis along with stage 4, 5, and 6 as well. I'd highly recommend checking out the OST for Gauntlet IV on the Genesis as well it's every bit as much of a masterpiece. I wish it had more midi tracks that people have recomposed from it because they are fantastic tracks.
genius. this sounds so great, thanks for all these pure recordings
and the $$ value on this game keeps creeping up and up every month.
Definitely, I just bought a complete , in Box copy off eBay for around $300 usd
I remember being a 4-5 year old in the early 90's. The video store i rented this game from had laminated all of the pages of the book. If only i understood that this game would be the cash cow it is today..
you can buy castlevania collection tho
Leave it to the Castlevania series to create one of the best Sega Genesis soundtracks PERIOD!
7:18 Every since I understood that the entire song was in 7 I've been blown away! So creepy, so creative, so cool!
Thanks for posting! Excellent pfp 👌
7 what?
I guess I only mentioned 7 because I wasn't sure if it was in 7/4 or 7/8 time though I would lean on the second. The ostinato in the background is 7 notes and the melody/harmony builds off it.
@@scottevensen2615 thanks, I know nothing about music theory or anything LMAO I dont even know what kind of genre the OST's from Castlevania games belong to, all I know is that I effing love them :D
A classic soundtrack for one of the cult games of the mega drive. Brings back a lot of good memories playing this as a kid
Genesis does what Nintendon't !!!!!
Simons theme in this game is a work of art
One of the greatest soundtracks ever.
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awesome job, thank you so much
One of my favorite Castlevania game series with non-stop action and awesome gameplay.
How could the Game Pro magazine hate such a game? Well I object!! Simon would be impressed and the Bloodlines is up for the Count
Year after year, I come back to this
Amazing!! Just went back 25 years! :D what a masterpiece!
I used to play this game all the time as a kid. its great to hear the music again!
This is the best Castlevania game. Best soundtrack. Great original songs but also the definitive version of bloody tears and Simon's theme as well, the gutteral bassy sounds that the Genesis can produce is unparalleled and matches the dark tone of the game perfectly.
is far from best, but is cool
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@@DivineBanana "you´re out of your element" - Walter Sobchak
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after all the castlevania games this tribute to Simon's theme is amazing so many years and the Sega Motherfucking Genesis rocked it
Can't tell if deaf/biased, or if my Genesis just sounds better than 90% of RUclipsr's Segas.
I understand that, but a lot of people's hardware sounds as if they dragged their nasty balls across all the DIP packages on the board
And if you look at my channel you can listen to it... The video I'm not sure about, either my caps are going bad, my PVR sucks, or my Genesis is being fed a dirty power signal...
My DC brick is putting out clean DC, so it could be the on-board Voltage Regulators or a mix of Regulator/Caps causing the issue
Looks like Ripple but it's not effecting my audio so honestly I don't know... If it was the caps my audio should be affected.
Somethings definitely up with the video though because I get really bad jail-barring on my CRT. So It's honestly probably the caps, which I'm replacing at some point when I start using my Genesis daily again.
+xLDKx NewYorker It's this, get some good quality low-ESR caps in there. You can also get a slight improvement by disconnecting the audio pin on the CXA1145, you can either just leave it off and do a stereo mod or actually even safely reconnect it, just bypassing the chip. I have no idea why they feed audio through it at all actually other than it's there, it doesn't affect the audio output at all.
the real one sounds slower
cuz I complained that it sounded diffrent
9:23 - !!!!!
Iron Blue❤❤❤
Best theme👍
Sinking Old Sanctuary is just so soothing and hauntingly beautiful...it beats the living shit out of Super Castlevania 4 boring soundtrack..with the exception of the Rotating Room Theme and the 1st form of Dracula theme and the Ending Credits as well.other than that.Bloodlines soundtrack shits all over SC4.seriously
Ah, the typical “I’m retarded enough to not appreciate different approaches to music and intention” opinion. What is the point in comparing the two? One is atmospheric and the other is clearly action oriented with emphasis on catchy themes.
wooow bloooody teaaaaaars mamma mia Megadrive thank you dustinodellofficial for this monter of ost's
It's hidden ost master
This soundtrack and the one from Alone in the Dark ('92) are the best game soundtracks I've experienced
Yo Dustin, I hope you don't mind that I referred someone here. XD He said how Konami butchered this track on the Genesis, and I told him to hear the real thing because he heard it on an emulator. And we all know you don't do that here.
Nah man that's kind of the point! Good on you
Sweet!
God, I hate emulators...
Model 1 VA6... I really need to service it :'(
Could use some recommendations on Music to listen to/upload.
Already put some of my favorites up
+xLDKx NewYorker It's possible for an emulator the simulate this sound chip to the point where any differences aren't noticeable. I think the better genesis emulators like kega fusion, gens plus gx, and especially exodus are close enough that most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I personally can only hear differences in certain spots, and only if I'm listening for them.
The only thing holding them back is lack of documentation on how the chip works at a low level.
the best emulator in terms of sound emulation at the moment is Genesis Plus GX due to its (optional) use of a cycle accurate emulator based on die shots of the YM3438 and YM2612
Without question my favorite soundtrack on the Genesis.
Can I possibly get copies of your recordings? The only mp3's I have of this glorious soundtrack were from some CD release that added reverb to everything so it sounds "grander" than the original.
Man, I love the konami logo theme.
2:08 best
never played the game, but this is a really nice soundtrack - tons of little nods to previous castlevania games, but they're all very subtle, e.g. taking half of a melody from an NES castlevania game and putting it into a new context. sounds like part of the heritage without being a carbon copy. i do prefer that grandiose/dramatic sound that rondo of blood and scv4 went with (to be fair, i've actually played those games), but this is a cool addition to the franchise nonetheless and it really fits the genesis sound.
Probably my favorite Castlevania.
00:00 dat Konami sound #nostalgia
The first Castlevania game i ever played, i was never into this franchise when i was little until i gave this game a try on the Sega Channel
I love this game to death
Masterful use of the bass and drums on the SEGA Genesis.
And the stereo effects.
The beginning of the stage 6 can't be more epic @_@
for me is the best castlevania game and best soundtrack
Thanks to Michiru Yamane for such an incredible soundtrack!
One of the best in the series. OST and Gameplay.
An awesome soundtrack
have not played this great game for over 20 years but somehow i remember most tracks. Memory is a funny thing...
Lol, that game description on the box was certainly inspired.
03:27 Oh -__-
So many good memories with this one :( Childhood, such a wonderful time of life. Too bad, i understand it only now, when i am far for 30.
9:23 this music is fantastic and sad wow! nostalgia...
The only thing that was close to the Castlevania music back in time was Rondo Veneziano, im prety sure that those classical cross pop music was released in Japan and inspired most of the Konami composer at the time, that and and some neo classical metal like yngwie malmsteen or Europe ^^
NES and SNES could always boast about having most Castlevania games, but no one even comes close to Bloodlines - except maybe Rondo of Blood on PC Engine. The soundtrack is absolutely out of this world
LOL I love Bloodlines but SotN, AoS, PoR and OoE are leagues above it
So beautiful, thanks for sharing with us.
This soundtrack is so good. I don't think a single track is bad or average.
The game itself though... typical BS-designed, clunky, cheap game from SNES era
@@wallacesousuke1433 I would strongly disagree. I think this Castlevania is super smooth in terms of gameplay. It has that distinct castelvania feel, but much better than the old games.
@@Fighter101network I can't stand the clunky, unfair gameplay design of "Classicvanias".. A pity though, the art style, enemy design and soundtracks are amazing but playing them is a huge chore and nowhere near as fun and technical as SotN-era CV's.
@@wallacesousuke1433 While I love SOTN, the gameplay was the one aspect I didn't find so appealing. It was just too easy most of the time. You always felt like the game was designed to be a walk in the park so that you could enjoy the scenery.
i hate the tower of pisa theme (the stage was awesome though)
How about that description on the back? Sheesh..
Calling From Heaven (Stage 6) & Together Forever (Ending Theme) & Requiem for the Nameless Victims (Staff Roll) - 10/10
thank you
I also love that a lot of the OST ended up in SoTN and in Portrait of Ruin among other castlevania games.
Used to play this all the time back when my sega genesis still worked. Still got the original cartridge, along with that game genie thing I never knew how to use :P
Oh i love this ost soooo much!!!