Season 4 Episode 2
Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume for Wii U
Ripped by Mitchell
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I've made no secret that I have a very particular affection for the various old-internet jokes that Unregistered Hypercam 2 brought to the channel through his KFAD1 win. Be it Paralyzer as featured in YACKER TOILET, or Dreamscape as featured in Unregistered CyberSpace 4-5: Arrow of 2009 - these anthems of a time far gone resonate a lot with me as someone who was near the perfect age to have grown up with these anthems. Yet, amidst the Caramelldansens and Numa Numa's, there's one more piece of old internet history that's brought up almost as frequently as the two aforementioned anthems.
The "Sparta Remix" is a trend I feel like I kind of missed as a kid. It started off with a guy in 2007, using audio from the movie "300", mainly with the iconic "THIS IS SPARTA!"-shout, to create a high-tempo remix song simply titled 300 This is Sparta. It, somehow, awoke something in the internet of the time, and a trend began to recreate the song as used in the remix but using audio other than that from 300, such as from well-known cartoons or video games. And while its a fascinating phenomenon and kind of a crucially important piece of audio shitposting history, it...was never a song I liked all that much. But today, we have an exception on our hands!
THIS. IS. SOLEANNA., even despite my lack of affection for the meme used, is pure brilliance. The sound of the Sparta Remix is an uncannily perfect fit for the instrumentation and overall sound of Crisis City ~The Flame~ ~Skyscraper~, a song that in general uses a lot of electronic music and occasional intentional stuttering and glitch effects in the music itself. The voice and synth samples merge perfectly with everything on offer in the original track, and real effort was put in to ensure it all syncs up perfectly - this is no drag-and-drop mashup! The vocal sample of the "THIS IS SPARTA" shout is used in so many different ways as the track escalates, either as a repeating chant, a parroting back-and-forth, or even as a kind of percussion underscoring the main melody. Its nuts, I find it hard to find the true words for just how much is done with this three-word voiceline. And Crisis City ~The Flame~ ~Skyscraper~ is a pretty long track - for the entire 3-and-a-half minute runtime the song never settles into a groove, and constantly changes into different segments of the song. Yet Mitchell keeps up with all of it in absolutely spectacular fashion - its given me affection for a meme I otherwise kind of just disregarded.
IDK why it fits so well with the character for me. But in my brain the past theme of Metallic Madness for the Japanese soundtrack to the videogame Sonic CD IS Mars' song.
Maybe it's the robotic feel or the fast beat... It just sounds like something he'd listen to while playing around or on a mission from Yamanoue.
Lemme just summon and annoy the three other JM fans I know to get their opinion when they have the time.
Friendly reminder that lots of soundtracks, including several Sonic OSTs, are available for free on the Internet Archive! Always check the archive before you pay markup prices for a CD!
i realised as i was writing up the post i just put out just now that i have quite a bit to yap about so imma do it now because why not.
So i got it on steam on my computer, theres a sale on steam right now and it was 3 pounds so i got it, and i did the first stage on my keyboard and realised it does NOT work that well. It's possible to play on keyboard but i just found it wayyy too hard so i connected my xbox controller to my pc and have been playing with that since.
I am going to admit, on basically every single stage ive gotten rank E minus one where i got rank D but im not too bothered about it because i do want to take my time with this game and take it all in. Im not gonna rush it and not try my tip top best, I'll do that the second time i play it. For now im just taking it all in and that includes the story.
Also, as someone who loves gaming, this game GRABS me into playing it for like 3+ hours every time i turn it on. If i like a game i will spend way too much time trying to finish it. For example, i got the murder of sonic and finished it in one sitting in roughly 3.6 hours (thats what my steam gameplay says). I only got up for food and bathroom breaks. And i know theres gonna be some people who are saying 'thats bad for you, you should be taking bigger breaks and shouldnt be playing games for so long!' and to you i say... shut up i like sonic. If i get a good game i will be making it my whole life until i finish it. Then do that all over again.
Anyways enough with that waffle, back to sa2. Knuckle's stages always take me the longest. I think one of them took me nearly 20 minutes because i couldnt find part of the master emerald. I get thats probably a me thing but oh my gosh was it annoying. The stages normally take me 2-10 minutes to do varying on what they're asking me to do and who im playing as.
ALSO THE SOUND TRACK <3333 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I love the music it's amazing it adds so much to the game. There are some songs in the stages that arent as good **cough cough** pumpkin hill **cough cough** but overall theyre all like by me in their own way.
I would talk about the story line but that would make this post 10x longer so i think thats all i have to say for now, there will definitely be a post like this again when i finish the hero story but maybe not as long.
Confession: at the time of running this tournament, I hadn't yet listened to the Sonic Frontiers OST, but I'm now obsessed with it, so here's a bonus poll!