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Same here!!!

It is pretty good! You should also check out the symphonic rendition from GodofThings, AKA Bored Man.

I love that one. Birth of the People slaps hard

Yeah, he also did the Shinobi games, and cowrote Shenmue.

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Nothing like a heroic, badass opening level theme to get you pumped for a metroidvania. I played F.I.S.T. recently and they do it there as well. (its called "rescue mission")

It's so frigging good, trust me, you won't be disappointed.

A year late but... Yuzo Koshiro also wrote a ton of Castlevania music. Most of Portrait of Ruin off the top of my head.

Yuzo Koshiro said that Fillmore from ActRaiser took inspiration from the “Beginning” in Castlevania III.

I too still have my SNES copy :)

The game is actually quite good once you get the hang of it. I played through and beat it on mobile with a controller. Definitely worth your time.

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Oh yes, Toshiyuki Tanahashi is amazing, never even heard of him until I heard this rendition of Fillmore. So fucking good!

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fan of the original :)

I've been wanting to get it but life keeps getting in the way. It looks pretty cool and the fact that the original composer came in to redo the soundtrack of pretty cool, though I must admit that I preferred the original organs and bass guitar for Filmore, it just sounds more like "God is pissed off and is going to kick your ass." I would have died of a prolonged eargasm if it was recreated with the original instrument setup. That is not to say that I don't like this rendition though. It's amazing in its own right.

​@@bon7029 But what they need to do now for DLC to Ren, add all the AR2 story, but expand it also with the world building. Fighting these generals were one thing, but in 2, you fought the embodiments of sin, Sloth, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Lust, Greed and Pride as the main bosses, and their act one bosses as well. 7 New heroes can be added to them to embody the cardinal virtues that oppose them.

@@vargaslestrae7900 I would say that an Actraiser Renaissance 2 would be in order with your suggestions. Keep the story but redo the action stages because they were a cast iron bitch, make them more akin to the original. I agree about the sim aspect. Flesh it out even further, and make it that the lands you purify can connect directly to one another, that you can customize what types of areas you want to have built, look out not just for hordes of enemies but also for natural disasters and have to rebuild should a building get destroyed, etc.

@@DesertRainReads Also work on the pace. Alcaleone was great, with enough dialogs to keep it lively, but the previous realms were constant talking to the point of being infuriating. The hero dynamic in Alcaleone was great, and they were more involving than the nameless worshippers of each realm.

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Absolute legend. The only thing I can add… lol

I actually prefer the remake to be honest..better combat, more interesting earth sim and rts gameplay..I understand people love the simplicity, but I like the added complexity

@@UNSTABLE111 Understood. I don't hate Renaissance, I'm just old school. I ignored most of the dialogue in the SNES version as a kid, and I feel like Renaissance really doubled down on it. Plus Renaissance just didn't play as crisply to me in the side scrolling sections despite the graphical overhaul. It's not bad, but it's not a necessary replacement for the SNES version as far as I'm concerned... And then the soundtrack starts up and I question everything again.

@@UNSTABLE111 I love them both, the original holds up very well and I loved what they did with Renaissance by fleshing out each realm with heroes. Bloodpool especially benefitted from this, making it that Teddy is more than just the name of someone you need to rescue in Act 2. They attached his name to an avatar and gave him a full-fledged personality of his own. It added significance to the story. Giving each realm a flare of its own was also a bonus. Fillmore and Bloodpool were inspired by England and Ireland respectively. Kassandora was inspired by Egypt Marahna was inspired by India or the Middle East Aitos was inspired by either Korea, The Philippines or Malaysia Northwall was clearly inspired by Iceland or Greenland I love how they gave each civilization their own distinct flare and added heroes to flesh it all out. It gave me extra incentive to play through. Plus, they kept the side quest from the original and restored Fillmore Act 1's music to Fillmore Act 2 like the Super Famicom original had. Definitely a massive win right there, mainly because Kassandora Act 2/Marahna Act 1's song didn't fit Fillmore Act 2.

Fun fact: The composer (Yuzo Koshiro) worked on Castlevania Portrait of ruin

Yep

Yes, and it's fantastic too, perfectly fitting. Especially that harpsichord solo in the middle, the funky, slapping, Toshiyuki Tanahashi bass line, and then the guitar breakdown before the loop repeats. God is that ever so fitting. I'm also beyond glad they fixed a glitch that was present in the US SNES version which mistakenly played the Kassandora Act 2/Marahna Act 1 song in Fillmore Act 2. I always felt it didn't fit during that stage and when I saw someone play through a Japanese ROM hack of the SFC version and heard Fillmore's theme play again, I then knew why this was. Fillmore's song played in Acts 1 and 2 in the SFC original version of the game, the way it was meant to happen. They restored this back to how it should be in Actraiser Renaissance. I'm so grateful for that.

When God pulls up his sleeves and decides to lay the beat down on the devils tormenting his children

Not at all, Birth of the People has a beautiful rendition and they added extra to it as well

Youre wrong bro this soundtrack fits the theme and concept of the game I hope other platforming levels has this kind of feel in the soundtrack but they are boring. The soundtrack feels like someone is going to destroy the children of the night it feels like castlevenia. You are a warrior summon by God to do his biddings to destroy the fiends! The soundtrack fits well.

@@jensenrichwealthcarluisa.1813 No, my dude. I'm right. Castlevania's songs fit castlevania quite well, and most of them have real count dracula stuff. That is, choirs, organs, at least they try to loosely imitate the religious feels. Very much unlike the overcooked garbage of a much better song that this is. It's not even the first time Koshiro fails at remixing his old music. Nothing about the petty guitar screams children dying to me. Besides all the children are already dead, you're not even reviving them or anything, you're encouraging further generations. Like I said, all bluster no gravitas.

Neither of you are wrong. You both have your preferences, well really we all do, and no matter how we feel about something like music we're all 'right'. Someone who doesn't like this track is right; someone who does like it is right; the person (or people) who created the music are also right! We all interpret it in our own way.

Always thought this tune was a lot different to the other in game tunes in the original too

I agree, but for a bit of a different reason. The added rock theme made the song feel cluttered rather than the clean way the original had. Granted what made the original so great was the gothic tone it took, similar to how Demon's Crest and Ghouls and Ghosts handled it. That's what gave it it's biblical undertones.

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@DracoHandsome You realize this is the original composer, I hope? And he was inspired by Castlevania's power chords when creating the original? I prefer the original too, but pretending that this comes out of nowhere is a bit out of touch.

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have you listened to the original? I'm fairly certain if the composer could've had a real electric guitar on the snes he would've

you are right, it sounds awful