Thanks

You wanna be in the description huh

@@GamingTranceSeer Would be fine by me if he wanted to copy paste it into the description, would be more quickly accessible that way

@@stikkysosage9125 yeah hopefully he finds it soon cause I was having to scroll around to find this

It's just so serene. So other worldly.

Gonna add to that: one of the best pieces of music of all time.

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Easily my favorite

Corridors of time and eternal wind are among the best video game pieces in history

I honestly never noticed that. I knew Battle with Magus and Schala's Theme shared the same starting notes albeit played at different speeds. I only just realized after reading your comment the same thing with Zeal Palace. That (leit?)motif really solidifies them all being a part of the Kingdom of Zeal. Always clever how game composers are unwittingly able to tell a story through their music, even if those not musically educated like me are likely to notice it even through multiple playthroughs.

Also in undersea palace

Also in main theme ! Magus is the co-protagonist of the victory over Lavos, therefore in his songs there is also the leitmotif that represents the epic fight against evil

It's very nice, but I feel like her theme needs the bells. It's such a delicate sound, just gives you a feeling of how fragile Schala is, how very easily she could leave the world--the princess who cannot be saved once lost.

When I even think about this music my eyes water. I would argue that its possible some of this progression is possibly the most beautiful resolutions in all of gaming music, if not all soundtracks of anything ever.

Few songs in this OST go as hard as Tyranno Lair and I knew he would dig it

You’d probably also love the dragon quest series (the director of those wrote most of ct)

Love this

@@at0micl0bster I've been meaning to do that actually! I only briefly played one on the PS2 that I borrowed from a friend but did like it.

CT, moreso than any other JRPG, really stood the passage of time, it's still perfectly playable today in it's default form.

My last play through was prob 10 years ago. It’s time

Thanks I was looking for this one

Exactly

Looks like I need to do a deep dive into this era of tech! Thank you!

Yeah the snes has such a small amount of sound allocated ram (64K for samples, echo and the music program) that being able to pitch samples is huge. The compressed sample format helped a bunch too. I converted a bunch of amiga mods to spc recently and getting those big amiga samples to fit is pretty tricky.

@@MusicTheoryforGamers Hey there brother. May I make a humble request? Please listen and react to the Jet Set Radio Future OST. It is legendary and funky and I guarantee your viewers would love it. Thank you for reading and I hope to see it some time soon.

I love that it does the _1812 Overture_ thing of having the two musical themes doing battle symbolic of the characters they represent also battling.

@@HollowGolem Wrath of Khan also did that.

It's underrated for sure, I love tyran castle theme

It's one of the best tracks in the whole game.

i like how the audio goes right to left. it tickles my brain

It took until I heard it to realize it was the Tyranno Lair song. I was looking at the timestamps and was like, “Tyran Castle… why don’t I remember a place called Tyran Castle? Was that the name of that castle where you finish the Frog sidequests? Ohhhhhh, it’s Tyranno Lair!”

It’s such a surreal, otherworldly track

That's sort of an inherent problem with a music teacher listening to these tracks out of context. Because this music wasn't really designed to be an album for broadcast or home listening. It's all BGM (Back Ground Music) that's supposed to fit a scene. So if he was to see the opening to the fight with Magus in front of him instead of just hearing the track, I doubt he would have made that confused face in the beginning. That track was so tailored to that scene that the game auto progressed the dialog in tune with the track and took control away from the player. That's how proud they were of that scene.

I'd argue that the final boss battles reveal that Lavos was actually a maliciously intelligent creature that has been aggregating all the world's knowledge to make itself stronger and devise countermeasures and stratagems to keep itself safe from attack. It defends itself with the memories of all the powerful entities you've encountered through the ages to wear you down before fighting you directly if you approach it on your own, and even pulls a bait and switch tactic on you with it's final form. It's been knowingly manipulating the development of the entire world in order to have more valuable samples to collect for its own self evolution, only wiping the slate clean once independent technology has advanced far enough to possibly pose a threat to it if allowed to continue. While it is still a force of nature as well (the other side of the coin of Lavos destroying to world on that fateful 1999 event was preparing the land for the Lavos Spawn to mature enough to make their own journeys to devour other planets, after all... and because they kicked the beehive and made it angry), it's just as insidious as something like Jenova from FF7. (I'd even theorize/headcanon they might be the same species as each other across the two game series?) Regardless, while saying Lavos is intelligent is supported by evidence in Chrono Trigger's events alone, it's also outright confirmed in Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger DS that it had a will and plans of its own, not just instincts. It's like a multiclassed wizard/barbarian, using rage and cunning in equal measure to dispatch anyone or anything that gets in its way.

@@Shalakor I haven't played Cross personally so I can't speak on anything it introduces to that conversation, but what does the DS version add that leans that way? That's the version I've played the most of and thought it was still fairly ambiguous if not pretty blunt with party members even directly saying it's acting on instinct

Well with Chrono Cross it's implied/stated that the human race should've died out long ago, leaving the Reptite race as the dominant species. After Lavos landed and triggered an ice age the Reptites died off, being cold blooded and all. The humans would've been soon to follow, but it seems that Lavos was subtly influencing their evolution, making them smarter over the ages. They survived and spread, furthering their technology, living longer lives. It was essentially cultivating this life that it could feed off of to eventually trigger what happens in 1999 AD. Though the Zeal dynasty got a little too greedy in 12,000 BC, using their magic to siphon energy from Lavos. And he responded appropriately, razing their palace and robbing the Enlightened Ones living in Zeal of their magic to prevent that from happening again.

Yay! Chrono Trigger is officially a “dad game”

Haha! I'm trying to do the same with my 12yo son right now. LOL : D

Ive tried to get my cousins to play it, no luck :/

@@ChrisAshtear i guess its a rpg and its tough for him to put time in thia chrono trigger

I played it when I was a teenager. Amazing game, and music.

Mathew Valente is also currently in the process of restoring the soundtrack after finding what they can of the sources of those instruments. Go sub to that channel as well !

And Xenogears :)

If you like chrono trigger go check out the Dragon Quest games (the director of those wrote most of ct)

Hopefully MGS first, but I wouldn't mind Xenogears cutting in line. As long as he also listens to both of the vocal tracks.

@@at0micl0bster Ahh, so no wonder Toriyama-sensei was in charge of the art

It really did "age" very well

Mathew does great work, he has done restorations of all 3 mainline SNES FF games so far and they sound fantastic. He was actually the composer/arranger for the Chrono Trigger fangame "Chrono Resurrection" which was sadly shut down by Square back in the day. On a similar note, I also highly recommend Jammin' Sam Miller's restorations of the Donkey Kong Country SNES trilogy's soundtracks.

you should check out malcom robinsons versions of the chrono trigger ost. ill def check out your suggestion as well!

So many remixes or reorchestrations dont include the clock tick in to far away times which annoys the hell out of me.

@@Eversoul12 Oh yes. Robinson is one of the few arrangers who actually kept the sitar in Corridors of Time!

@@Eversoul12 I second Malcolm's versions. They're amazing and stay faithful as well.

So true :D

For my favorite location-based tracks, my favorites are definitely Tyrano Lair, Zeal Theme, Undersea Palace and Black Omen. Don't forget Magus' Castle! Check them out! I have other favorites, I'll be happy to share if ya'll want. :)

Not the best for me but great

I believe this is the 2009 rerelease of CT OSV which used the DS reinstrumentation.

That would be amazing !

I think Wild Arms is super under appreciated. That game also has a killer ost.

Kids these days just don’t know 😔

YES! That album is a masterpiece of a masterpiece.

He's gotta listen to that bacon and eggs soundtrack, 100%.

Yes.

@@MusicTheoryforGamers Tysm, I absolutely digged your touhou 6 reaction :DD

@@LifeonEarthBand People give Uematsu way too much credit for CT. Let Mitsuda shine! It's his. And I like Uematsu. Plenty of other great OSTs of his.