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You cannot grasp the true form of this soundtrack!
LMAO
I can just hear this at the beginning of a fire album lmao
Yeah Earthbound is a very weird SNES game. This final boss was famously inspired by Shigesato Itoi's (the primary creative lead for the game) trauma as a kid where he believed he saw a movie with a rape scene.
The background for this fight is trippy. Giygas (pronounced guy-gas I think?) is constantly flowing and oozing, and regularly splits into more parts. It's really trippy/eerie.
Also, Lukas is not Ness's brother. Ness is the protagonist of Mother 2, which is Earthbound in the West, and Lukas is the protagonist of Mother 3.
TIL
PK Fire!
"geegas" is actually the correct pronunciation but everyone under the sun says guy-gas including myself
@@TsukiStuffs That's how you pronounce it in spanish
@@TsukiStuffs Finally someone who knows that
You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack.
You should look up the Giygas battle sometime. It's one of the most famous video game bosses out there for how unique it is, how disturbing the battle itself is, and the story behind this battle's creation. Giygas is meant to be an entity that is unexplainable, with cosmic power far beyond mortal understanding. You are just fighting Giygas in something called the devil's machine, back in time before matures and becomes too powerful. The devil's machine itself looks strangely organic, which led some fans to believe this is a representation of the womb or something of the like. Even so, for much of this battle you cannot even damage Giygas, much less understand what you're even looking at. Its attacks and especially its "dialogue" are also quite weird and unsettling.
"IT HURTS, NESS..."
There's also the fact that its final phase has that outline that looks like a fetus growing in the womb (apparently this was unintentional, not sure if I buy that), and yeah you end up with a recipe for one of the most unsettling and memorable moments in gaming history.
Also it's hilarious to me that you got sent that "disturbing vgm" playlist. I used to dig into that thing every year for October back when I was a teenager. That's nostalgia in its own way I suppose lol.
I'm gonna add to this by saying that the dev behind it made the dialog as such because apparently he walked in on his parents...... um, yeah... So, it burned into his head and he turned it into a horror monstrosity.
@@r.f.switch5847 it was actually a movie
Itoi walked into the wrong theater and saw a sex scene witch turned into a murder
But itoi thought it was a rape scene
Except it's actually pretty weak
@@zeff3016 by today's standards.
The charming, colorful aspects of the game slowly drain away the closer you get to confronting Giygas. They are gone completely by the time you're in the final dungeon where everything is a silvery white void.
Giygas is a Lovecraftian being akin to Cthulhu that you can't truly fight. The last boss that you defeat through sheer force in the game is Porky. After him the battle becomes a survival narrative against a cosmic horror.
I would actually say he's closer to a blend of Nyarlathotep and Azathoth, to be honest. But yes, he is VERY MUCH a cosmic horror, and I love him
Earthbound gets trippy man.
The switches happen at different parts of the battle against Giygas. As for who Giygas is, wall of text below sort of describing him/plot of Mother 1 and Mother 2. People can comment corrections and stuff as needed.
Spoilers below.
The Mother series has 3 games. Earthbound is Mother 2. Giygas is like the undefinable, all consuming evil alien who is weak to emotional damage because he was raised by humans. In Mother 1 as Giegue he was sent to earth to retrieve the secrets of PSi that said humans stole from the aliens. He loses to a lullaby that inflicts emotional damage. Runs away, promises to come back. In Mother 2 he comes back, still under the influence of emotional damage. His evilness is a bit too big, so he ends up destroying himself and his mind, becomes a irrational mindless evil...evil? Anyways, Pokey, our friend who means business, seals said evil in a machine to contain his evil evilness.
This is where time travel shenanigans join the story. Giygas being the evil evilness he is, wielding vast cosmic evilness, starts destroying the universe, as one does. Future dude who survived said destruction, a bug alien named Buzz Buzz, goes into the past to hang out with Ness, tells him to go on a fetch quest for some melodies so he can face Giygas and not die painfully. Ness and his homies do this, then go farther into the past to fight Giygas, they fight him and Pokey. Pokey gets rekted, shuts off the machine containing Giygas, resulting in chaos. Giygas is too evil, Ness and his homies can't do any damage cause Giygas is just too incomprehensible and evil, so Paula, one of Ness homies, starts praying for help. People on earth, including the player, answer the call which hits Giygas in his weak spot. You guessed it, his weak spot is emotional damage. He vanishes, the day is saved.
Mother 3 doesn't involve Giygas so I'll leave that out.
I marathoned Chuggaaconroy's remastered Let's Play of EarthBound while I was home sick for two weeks with a throat infection. Chugga made the downright evil choice to bring the A section's bass to the forefront while he fought Giygas, and MAN did that ever burrow straight to my core and make my soul feel sick. It sounded like a heart attack.
You could think of the Earthbound/Mother series as Scooby Doo meets Lovecraft. It is an rpg series that seems bright and cheery, but has a dark undertone that gets more and more pronounced as you go through the game. By the end of the game, disturbing and weird is pretty much the norm. The two themes you have done so far are the second last boss theme, Pokey Means Business, and this is the last boss after him from Mother 2/Earthbound.
the creator of earthbound, shigesato itoi, is actually just a general celebrety in Japan. I believe he worked on some Ghibli movies, and the Earthbound/Mother series is the only video game series he ever worked on, and all three are all amazing, especially Earthbound (Mother 2) and Mother 3
Some slight corrections: Itoi was a voice in a single Ghibli movie (My Neighbor Totoro where he performed as the protagonist's father), and also worked on Shigesato Itoi's No 1 Bass Fishing (the man has range!). His celebrity status is from his years of copywriting experience and penning a collection of short stories together with Haruki Murakami (yes, THAT Murakami known for his many acclaimed literary works)
Was he one when earthbound released?
@@yotambraunshtein9786 Yes he was
he's also the guy who named the Game Boy
The serious tone shift of earthbound’s final “fight” solidified it in my mind forever. Earthbound is worth exploring. The whole game is quite happy cute and whimsical, but dark realities peek through the story and in the end it eventually hit you like a truck. Super abstract and trippy, but an amazing journey about growing up.
This OST is actually about 7 short OSTs stitched together. The other Earthbound song you heard, porky means business, is actually played after the first(ish) minute of the one in this video.
This song really captures that *intense* feeling of being against the most powerful psychic being in the entire universe, one that is too powerful for its own mind. This is the sound of the universe crying out in pain spurred on by the tortured spasms of a being that has effectively become *evil* itself. The more melodic bits (and of course, the eight melodies) are so necessary as part of the experience for both story and, thematically, as the smallest bastion of hope somehow pushes back against all of this evil and soothes this torment. I feel like the static at the end is more of Giygas breaking down crying as he finally lets go and ceases to be- both in sadness and in pain.
This is one of those times the context is kinda super necessary to really set you up for experiencing the track, so nobody can blame you for being nonplussed.
Earthbound is the grand-daddy of the 'quirky indie rpg' genre, Undertale chief among its alumni. It was a bit of a miss when it came out because of how far out of the norm it was, but nowadays it's been so inspirational as to almost seem quaint. At the time, RPG fare was firmly swords-and-sorcery, so something taking place in a Japanese pastiche of contemporary America was very novel. Even so, it still has kind of a unique character and voice. There's just... something about how the dialogue is written that immediately characterizes it.
I believe the melody in the middle of the song is the full version of the melody snippets that you collect in Mother 1, it confirms that Giygas is indeed the reincarnation of Gygue. or something like that, i cant really remember.
Fun fact:
HAL,the company who works on Kirby,also worked on this game!
No Wonder why Kirby is so creepy sometime,mostly in is really dark lore
Unironically, all of Giygas's tracks are lowkey actually pretty fun to listen to. Especially the heartbeat bass in the Wounded section.
I knew what was in store and yet, during the intense musical transitions, I still draped my blankets over myself because it was so spooky
This song is 100% context related, other comments have explained it well enough to understand.
I would love to see you play this game someday, but I don't expect you too. This game is such a crazy explanation/view of Americana from a foreign viewpoint and it's great.
SPOILER WARNING!
Giygas:
An unusual alien that was born to be raised by humans that were abducted. The father fled the station and returned with knowledge of PSI and the aliens didn’t like that.
Years later, the adult Giygas was sent to attack and destroy Earth before the humans learned how to use PSI against them. Unfortunately for Giygas, he was easily defeated by heroes (I won’t name) due to the use of nostalgia. This forced him to flee before he broke down emotionally. Giygas of course was enraged by this defeat by meager humans.
He plotted his revenge. He would attack Earth and gain more and more PSI power until he couldn’t control it. But it kept being absorbed and Giygas soon lost everything that was him, he had became… this. An interdimentional ghostlike entity with immeasurable power. He couldn’t even think. The price to pay for ultimate power, as a mortal, comes with a heavy price. Giygas is the perfect example.
Yeah this is what happens when you fight a cosmic horror.
Earthbound's a wild ride lol. Fun though. I finally played it for the first time last year and glad it still held up to its classic status. Full of personality and heart aaaand some wtfery :D
Someone needs to request New Age Retro Hippie, I just want his mind to explode with the contrast 💀
Earthbound is Mother 2. In the original Mother, you fight an alien entity named Gigue who was raised by your grandparents when they were abducted but had to return to conquer Earth after your grandfather supposedly stole secrets about psychic powers from its people. You defeat it by reconstructing the lullaby your grandmother sang to it and forcing it to experience an uncomfortable level of emotion and flee.
Giygas is perhaps the same entity returned after destroying its own mind for power and so that it cannot be defeated by emotion and song again. But it's defeated once more by a descendant of the same family and their friends. Not necessarily by its own emotion but by that of others and channeling the collective emotion of all the people you've met and helped who are wishing for your safe return via your friend's psychic ability that reaches out to others and weakening it with your sanctuary song (which is oddly reminiscent of your probably great grandmother's lullaby).
Earthbound is kinda like an 80s/90s kids adventure movie like "The Goonies", meets 50's sci fi horror... Maybe? And made into a quirky Japanese RPG game lol... It switches between pretty normal and pretty bizarre... Like the status ailments include stuff like catching a cold or getting nausea, heatstroke or homesick... But then you can also get a mushroom that grows on your head and messes up your directional controls while you walk around lol. Enemies include everything from tiny insects to goofy looking dinosaurs, to some kind of all powerful, unfathomable alien consciousness... Plus the New Age Retro Hippie! lol. I think that was my favourite one...
It's quite a change-up going from Porky Means Business into this "theme". It also really adds to the entire ambiance of the final battle with Giygas.
You need to check out Pokey’s battle theme. One of my favorites in this game i’m amazed an SNES could make such tunes like that theme
Yeah I would hardly call this a good form of boss battle music as it is so rooted in context and the battle. This is an ambient track facing a nightmare that you are powerless against, leaving you with only a prayer.
I always found crazy how this game ended... Like, is literally impossible to win, it's like their inside the eclipse from Berserk and all of the weapons and attacks are useless... U can only pray and hope that your death is quick.
Yeah this doesn't really qualifies as a music. Just like you can't grasp the true form of Giygas's attack, you can't grasp the the true form of the background sound and the background image, which is actually the boss itself.
There is alien and sorta cosmic horror shit going on during the final boss battle, and everything about the boss battle, Giygas's attack, the ambient sound, the screen reflects it. As the battle progresses, you can pray for the help of all the friends you made on your way, who will pray for you as well (The music box part), which is the key to finishing the boss.
Would love to see a playthrough of Earthbound! It’s a nonstop rollercoaster so would be good content for UA-cam. It is a weird yet hilarious game. The weirdness is what makes it such a unique rpg and as you can tell the soundtrack is great too.
Yeah this one of those "it makes much more sense in context" type of deals. Still for the time it was a iconic moment due to how different and out there it was. It's battle for sure that gets more unhinged as it goes. The out of place musical Chime inbetween is regarding a recurring melody that appears throughout the game. As well is a nod to plot point in the prior game before Earthbound (Mother 2), Earthbound: Zero/Beginings (Mother 1). Of which there is a full version of in both games, but sound differently in both. It's called "Eight Melodies."
Your musical intelligence and analysis is incredible, you got the full intention of the song blind and without having played the game
Kinda crazy!!
Not in this case. Probably most other people would get their conclusions this far with this image on the screen, titled "Creepy VGM". I would have guessed even better that the music-box section must be tied to this entity being an infant or undergoing some kind of inner memories / turmoil from its past as an infant or newly born entity.
Earthbound's final battle was something pretty much never seen before in a console gaming system. It was as immersive as you could get with 16bits and 24 Megabytes of memory. Playing it alone in the dark of a summer night as a kid I legitimately was terrified.
More Earthbound later this week :)
Yeah it's definitely a weird one but contextually this song fits very well with the battle it's in. Earthbound is a very peculiar RPG centred around a fun journey and it's full of really unique encounters, quirky NPCs and of course a banger soundtrack with a lot of leitmotif thrown in for good measure. Also, the bass is quite prominent in a lot of these songs so if you like groovy bass melodies, you'll enjoy the game a lot. Definitely put it on your list of games to play if you haven't already.
Also fun fact about the channel you viewed this video on. Alex R aka Alex Rochon aka The Autarch of Flame used to do a lot of Top 10 videos about video games. Mostly music, bosses, stages, characters etc. He also started to compile a list of Awesome and Disturbing video game music, this song is number one on his "Disturbing" list.
I have been waiting for this
my favourite part of earthbound is how big the tone shift is at the end of the game. you go from fighting a runaway dog to this...
earthbound is fun. You know how final fantasy is mostly swords and magic? earthbound is american suburbia. The weapons you usually using is yoyos, bats, frying pans and stuff like that. Instead of fighting dragons and plague rats youll be fighting local punks and crows. And then it gets weirder as it goes. Zombies, aliens and even hippies and taxi cabs. It's just a very weird but good rpg
Giygas in Earthbound is ripped to shreds by his own psionic powers. If you flip the first image upside down, you’ll see the catlike head he once had before his corruption.
(And no, Giygas is not a fetus in this battle, despite what some would have you believe…)
Cannot wait for this one!!!
I'm reminded a bit of the Metroid series, especially Metroid Prime's title screen, final boss, and credits, except that Metroid Prime is more melodic, even in the creepy sections.
Please React to the Final Fantasy 9 Song
"The Dark Messenger"
And
"Grand Cross"
They are such good songs
Man, bout time we had a real toe tapper on this channel.
Bruh great stuff... I'm currently in a deep dive in old school video game soundtracks. Check out Heroes of Might and Magic 3 if you already haven't. I'd recommend themes for Fortress, Necropolis and Tower.
EDIT: PS. Starcraft 1 Terran theme 2 is also great
It’s a very avant-garde theme
The Mother series - Earthbound is the US name for Mother 2 - is a series of JRPGs set in modern day (Well, modern day at the time) America (Sorry. A fictional "Not America" - Eagleland in this case). You play as a ~10 year old kid. Your weapons are yo-yo's and baseball bats. You buy consumable items from the drug store rather than a potion shop and instead of reviving KO'd party members in churches or whatever you revive them in hospitals.
Narratively, Earthbound is about a child's quest to save the world from an alien invasion, a journey that involves dealing with zombies, a dream world, and having his soul transferred into a robot to time travel. Thematically Earthbound is, I think, about the experience of growing up and the loss of the innocence of childhood - There are scenarios in the game that are direct references to real-world cults and police brutality, Giygas is the final boss and the visuals used to represent it I believe was inspired by a rape scene the game's lead saw on television as a child by accident - Not in a representative way, it's a bunch of abstract patterns, but an emotional one.
It's also unashamedly weird, on top of all of that you have stuff like a status effect where mushrooms grow on your head and randomly remap your directional inputs, sapient pieces of slime as boss fights, an incredibly trippy battle scene background, an utterly bizarre mechanic where, in an otherwise traditional turn-based battle system, the damage rolls down rather than being applied in a single block and if a character would die from an enemy attack but you heal them before their health it hits 0 they never actually get KO'd, and Mother 3 also has a mechanic where you do extra damage if you hit the button on the beat, and Mother 3's music is composed in a way that reflects that the tempo and rhythm of the music is a part of the game's difficulty curve, with some very weird time signatures and fluctuating tempos for some boss fights and that... Yeah that just feels like something Mother would do as a franchise.
There are many reasons it's a cult classic in the West rather than being a major hit, and I don't think all of them are down to Nintendo clearly not knowing how to market Earthbound to the US audience (Going for the slogan of "This game stinks" and including a scratch-n-sniff card with scents that matched various of the locations in the game, IIRC).
banger song 🗿👍
I just replayed Earthbound (beat it last night again,) I promise this game is well worth your time. A trippy turn based RPG with amazing mechanics, excellent story, music, and characters.... And plenty of 4th wall breaking.
Also, someone is dropping the ball by not sharing "Kraken of the Sea" or "Otherworldly Foe" with you
this is still fun
The composer did a great job to portray the character of Giygas. This sounds disturbing and surreal because Giygas is not a demon, a monster, an evil person... Giygas is something, or nothing at all. It's some Eldritch horror that is nowhere and everywhere, living in another time. It cannot be identified. When they attack in the game, the text box says "you cannot grasp the true form of Giygas's attack". Giygas has no sprite, they are the background of the battle scene.
Your party is just a bunch of kids who have to fight something that is just... the embodiment (or idea) of evil. This feels hopeless.
The music box part symbolizes the prayers of the characters. Such a horror cannot be defeated with weapons and spells, only prayers will save you
How the heck is this not music? Ambient MUSIC is music as well if that's what you call it. I'm also surprised you don't like it. This is a fascinating work of art. Creepy, but pleasant to listen to.
This is gonna be interesting
If you want to hear creepy old gaming music, then try out Sonic CD Boss theme US Version.
Look into the calmer more uplifting stuff like the 8 Melodies or Smiles and Tears. Or find the vocal CD that gives a lot of tracks from the game more life. The game can be dark and twisted but it offsets it a lot with good uplifting music.
You should really listen to Umineko OST, Ricordando il Passato is especially good!
Giygas is disturbing due to his design and the fact he just not there mentally is very disturbing
Curious to see what your reaction to the Mother 3 final boss theme is ("Battle Against the Masked Man"), if you haven't done it yet.
Because there's so much context that goes into that track, and because there is virtually no musicality to it, it's a bit of a weird choice for a reaction video in my opinion, as in I don't think you can get much value out of the person who reacts.
The only possible reaction is confusion, like Jesse experienced here.
Though I suppose it's not a bad way to turn someone's attention towards Earthbound.
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On the topic of Earthbound and its music, a lot of it is just plain weird, because it's a plain weird series. Borderline psychedelic, in spite of having extremely strong thematic consistency, with trippy backgrounds filling the screen during every fight. I have my own interpretation on the matter : Earthbound is a game in which adults are useless and kids are sent out to save the world. And that's weird and wrong. And the world is going crazy, and it has been going crazy for a while, probably. And it's going crazy because of a lack of empathy (read : love).
It's a game about vicious cycles and how to break them. It's a series about the corruption of capitalism|greed. It's extremely avant-garde and ridiculously silly, reveling in simple humor to punctuate truly emotional moments.
This one and Lavender Town from Pokemon are chilly XD
Γίγας or ΓΙΓΑΣ | Ghee-Ghas (the letter Γ or γ sounds like y in the word year ) | Gigantic
Greetings from Athens, Greece.
If you'll be doing any reactions for Halloween, I have a few recommendations.
"A Toccata Into Blood-Soaked Darkness" - Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
"Trail of Blood" - Final Fantasy VII
"The Resurrection of Mephiles" - Sonic '06
And since you did "Daredevil", you gotta give a listen to "Archange" from Ace Combat 7
Metal: Hellsinger's sountrack Jesse, all of it! Just look at the singers that they invited man, SOAD, jinjer arch enemy, soilwork, it's a fucking album with a game 👌
My 3rd favorite rpg on snes along side with final fanatasy 6 and chrono trigger
1:37 "doesn't sound pleasant" this whole fight is not pleasant at all my dude... hahaha
oh man, silent hill 2 has a really good music box track
If you want more weird look up My Heaven from Silent Hill.
I've heard at least five different ways of saying that name, you're fine.
If you like music boxes listen to the Little Nightmares ost!
Bro 666 likes...
Apparently the inspiration for this fight was the director or whoever walking into a rape scene of a movie at a theater as a small child and not comprehending what he bared witness to.
You need to react to metal remix of this song from AHmusic
This is when Nintendo wants to do dark and horrific, they go very hard. NIntendo is a master of disguising horror and disturbing content with Cute and innocent.. Kirby and Earthbound are a few examples.
Paper mario river twygz bed moment
Giygas>>>>> creepy pasta and S.C.P
Jesse, please. You must react to FF13-2 Crazy Chocobo. I must see this happen.
Some of yall are bonkers 😭💀💀 ong 💯💀☠️
If I ever get an abortion I want this song to be playing in the background
Bro 💀
Dude thats messed up. Get help
is it pronounced "gee-gas" or "guy-gus"
This boss is a being with no physical form just static waves etc
I think you'd enjoy Earthbound. While the music is nothing to write home about (I mean, it's good but it's not 'listen on repeat' good) the story is absolutely amazing and the humour of the game is just well beyond its time for a limited data video game. It's fun, but the marketing for the game absolutely destroyed its reputation and sales potential in the US
Its pronounced Guy-gus