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A collection of my favorite videogame music. Note that most of them are from games I played so I might miss some great ones from games I never played.
SNES
Super Castlevania IV (1991)
Simon Belmont's Theme
Masanori Adachi & Taro Kudou
One of my all time favorites games. Just one of the very few games that I like the Whole soundtrack (every single track). Truly a masterpiece.
It's amazing how after over 20 years, this track still holds up. Konami knew their shit.
Bloodlines did it better.
0:32 "This is the News at Ten with John Mcdonald."
This is the best version on YouTube. Everyone else's has shitty reverb and compression added to it.
ha! every time i listen to this track i make the whip sounds out loud...and the power up sounds...ok..actually i just make all the in game sound effects. I'm not crazy!! YOU'RE CRAZY!! haha jk i love you now c'mere and let's hug. open mouth!!
All this time...and still only one dislike. Wow. THAT, my friends, is power.
This is easily - EASILY - one of my ten favorite game songs of all-time. Coming from someone who grew up with video game music shaping his whole notion of what music could be, that's very high praise. You know what I used to do in that first level? I'd time my very first attack on that skeleton so that it coincided with the main theme's beginning fanfare. Because it made me feel so badass.
You and I are on the same boat. Musically this game has changed my life as a kid. I didn't know how important that would be when I became a musician later in life. Glad to see I wasn't the only one affected by the greatness of the art that is video game music.
TheHelloWaterface dude I already came up with lyrics for this, I kid you not. Made 4 verses out of it.
The Castlevania Bloodlines remix of this is arguably better. But this is still fantastic!
Said before and I'll say again: Super Castlevania IV has the best Soundtrack of the whole series. It bumped up the quality of the original NES classic songs and introduced new songs which would become staples in the series. The music of this game is just pure awesome!
@KingShade1 whoops that's not how you spell castlevania III
@KingShade1 you spelled castlevania 3 famicom wrong
Probably my favorite track in the whole series.
Next to Dracula's Castle from SOTN, same!
EPIC music! I love :)
@TheMostBleedingHeart every popular video game is overrated? by far the most ignorant and idiotic thing I have heard in awhile lmao
This song turns on the excitement!
İts time for some BADASS!!!!
"Blah blah"? How old are you? And make sure to use proper grammar before you insult someone, sweetie.
If anyone's the baby, it's you. You kept responding to that guy even though he clearly wasn't interested in discussing anything with you. On top of that, you don't provide any sort of argument, and you just insist that you're right. Also, you're an idiot if you think every single popular game is overrated.
Yeah, you have a point but it's a stupid one. Butting into a conversation just to insult someone and call them a baby is idiotic and nonsensical.
1 person is a vampire
How about you mind your own business and let people enjoy the music?
More like coming to a video just to bash a game.
1 person is a medusa head
1 Dislike Well I hope he broke his finger after he clicked that button
why they have to put the favorite enemy of everyone on cover of the game, "MF" medusas heads
Time to go play slender with this in the background
Durhamrockerz really made a great scene with this in his YT poop Lol
What is a troll? *throws glass* A miserable little pile of bullshit! But enough talk... Shut up and enjoy the music!
obvious troll is obvious. i'm wasting my time here i see.
i have pretty bad vision, yet i was able to see everything just fine. what exactly about this game do you not like? the difficulty? if so then i'm at a loss for words. this game was too easy. but, not so easy that it wasn't fun. it's a fun game with great atmosphere and homages to classic horror genres throughout. my only regret about this game is every other subweapon fails compared to the cross and they had no werewolf or swamp monster boss.
If you actually had trouble seeing enemies in this game, I suggest you get your eyes checked. And a trick like hiding a pitfall behind a waterfall is done intentionally to snare unsuspecting players who let their guard down. Are you suggesting they should have made the classic Castlevania games easier? If so I'd like to congratulate you on completely missing the point.
Then the SNES owners wave back and again says.. "We can still whip in all eight directions aaaaannnnnd enjoy your continue screen."
"Well, you SEE SEE SEE, Bobby."
Okay. Now, gtfo please.
There's no such thing as Metroid 64 EJ. :3
The art of Castlevania is good too, derp
Twilight Sparkle is best vampire
The SNES did Miracles with it sound card. You need proof?....SUPER CASTLEVANIA IV
.....Well, can't argue with that!
and then the psx waves at you two "got the best CV since SCVIV and still to date" :>
Then the SNES wave the cartridge right back and say "We can still whip in all eight directions~!"
And then Genesis owners wave Bloodlines in front of you and are all "Enjoy your broken game mechanics!"
This is the kind of game that you wave in front of a Genisis owners fan then be all "Enjoy your Sonic the Hedgehog!"
@MikeELtheGamer the next belmont has to take the cullens on, too easy XD
@MikeELtheGamer yup now i can't publicly announce that Vampires are epic anymore, makes me want to do Simon's Finisher from Judgement on Edward's sparkly ass
@DivineBanana I don't find vampire killer, his former character theme to be eerie, nor do I find Divine Bloodlines to be creepy either. Only the beginning of this song ins creepy to set the mood for the game and to surprise the player with the sudden change of theme in the song
@DivineBanana It isn't supposed to be eerie. It's fucking Simon's theme
No surprise that you have so many songs from this game on the list... One of the greatest sound tracks ever
I CURSE YOU!
@MikeELtheGamer they of secretly sparkled XD
1:06 :D :D :D :D
@Iwannaplayssbb I think Castlevainia would be good 3d if it followed more of a Devil May Cry direction of game play rather than God of War, but that's just me.
This song makes me want to go and smite Edward Cullen where he stands.
1 person is a TWILIGHT READER
One of my favorite Castlevania games! And yet, when I hear this song, all I can think about is how one of my first actions in the game was to hold down the whip button and shake my whip all around.
*nostalgic as hell*
@ThomasMink something I will never forget either, them goose bumps form just listening to this again.
*moon walking down the steps*
@SupraDarky Here here, though I wouldn't say my expectations for a 3D castlevania are necessarily 'lower', just radically different. One element I love about LoS is the surroundings; they look fantastic and give a lot of depth to what is essentially a very straight-forward game. Shame there's a lack of solid melodies, but the characterisation of the Belmont character as someone who needs to be just as merciless and demonic as the enemies he faces is a good idea, if heavily over-played on in LoS
I used to love this game as a kid.. just for the intro stage. It's all quiet and moody, but then you cross the drawbridge and BAM.. you get hit with this tune that just sucks you in even deeper. Not saying the rest of the game is bad, actually quite the opposite.. but playing that intro stage for the first time is something I will never forget.
holy shit i looooooooooved this game... the music is making me shiver
@MikeELtheGamer Those were the days, when vampires sucked blood and not cock.
@SupraDarky Just got it, been playing for about 3 hours straight, it's not a clone of anything, in fact everything it gets compared to, it actually dominates over! Well, maybe not Shadow of Colossi, but other than that, it seriously is an adventure game that's convinced me it's safe to trust the adventure genre once more(I didn't like them for the longest time since they seemed to lack so many things and Zelda was all I could trust)!
@SupraDarky /agree
Castlevania 4 probably the best in the series. Sorry but Simon Belmont is best protagonist of any Castlevania game. As for LOS I'm sure you'll find it to be an excellent game so far I love it!! Btw it plays noting like GOW, Plays more like LOI. People bitch and moan that it doesnt have Alucard or Bloody Tears but honestly SOTN had original music too with just some remix's of music in DraculaX. I do have to disagree tho I thought Lament of Innocence was a good 3D castlevania
You know I LOVE Super Castlevania IV. But now I am finding A LOT of people suddenly saying it's their favorite Castlevania game. And part of this might be because James the AVGN said it was his too.
@Iwannaplayssbb no its not its fucking awesome how dare you say that!!!
yes!!!!! finally!!!!
@SupraDarky i heard the combat's great, its the adventuring that sucks.
@Iwannaplayssbb if you love 2-D "platforming" games only then buying Lords of Shadow and expecting to be happy is just silly....... Personally i loved both LoI, and CoD ( the PS2 3-D games). i agree with Supra the level layouts were repeatitive, however, there is a lot more elements to a greatgame which they did have (awsome music, interesting epic bosses, TONS and TONS of items/spells/summons/stuff to do)
@whit52489 the current world record is 39 minutes and 17 seconds for a playthrough, but yeah most people take over an hour for sure
@Iwannaplayssbb The thing is, for me to have what we call a "classic" Castlevania, it automatically has to be in 2D. For 3D Castlevanias, my expectations are actually very different and quite lower. All I know is that I'll take LoS over any 3D Castlevanias we've had so far, especially the two on PS2/Xbox which were all corridors and corridors, backed with excellent music.
one of the best themes out there. great addition!
Oooh, good pick. Definitely one of my favorites.
@Aedesyr well just like Super Metroid, Super Mario World etc :P but yeah, it's just super epicness. <3 SNES will never die! best games ever! :)
Best Castlevania ever. PERIOD. (super)epic soundtrack? check. (super)amazing gameplay? Check. (super)badass bosses and monsters? check. (super)awsome graphic? check. This is one of the games that DESERVES the "super" in the title.
Yeah the Castlevania is out! and this ist my favourite track of all castlevania parts ever released ^^
An utter classic, I remember when i got super castlevania iv for my snes about 9 months ago, i was taken aback at just how mind bendingly amazing it really was. I should really take a pause from all the modern stuff im playing at the moment, and play it through again.
@SupraDarky well mate, i'm sorry to tell you this...but sadly, castlevania lords of shadow, falls under the same shit all "3-D" castlevania games suffered in the past, they just don't feel like castlevania games, you might like the game if you are into hack n' slash games, and shadow of the colossus (you will understand when you play it) is castlevania cursed to stay on a bi-dimensional plane for the rest of it's existance?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF SHOULD;VE UPLOADED WITH THE GATES OPENING AND EVERYTHING ;-; new castlevania? you mean harmony of despair or lords of shadows? cuz HoD totally attracts me more than the God of War rip off.
Wow,this is amazing! It is good that you uploaded this! Castlevania is one of those games that with great gameplay,they also have great soundtrack.
about damn time :)
Those god damn Medusa heads! Great theme!
This was my first Castlevania. I will always remember those moments and feelings when I played it with my new friend in first grade.
oh, i love this theme!
Classic masterpiece.
ALso plays during the final battle, so it adds to the "hero" theme :)
One of the all-time greatest video game soundtracks of all time. I remember when I first rented this game I was floored. Everything was perfect. The generational leap from Nes to Snes will never match up to anything today, that's not to say today's games aren't great, many are, but it was seeing a game like Castlevania IV for the first time and comparing it to what had come before.
@drunyon214 Castlevania, the only game that you cannot rehash OST or VGMs without being happy. ;D
We don't get the game until tommorow D:< DAMN EU!
Brings back memories when I used to play Circle of The Moon on GBA Great game!
This theme is epic as all hell.
Omg, am I the only one who thinks this sounds (suspiciously) like Underground Concourse?
Love how this song played in the very first level, as well as against the final boss's last form. Are there any other games that do that? So unique!
This song is so amazing. As is this game. I didn't fully appreciate it until I was older, probably because I couldn't beat the last stage for about 4 years. No doubt, this is one of the 10 best games and songs on the SNES.
I just got Lords of Shadow and its kicking some serious ass... except fot he camera, it sucks!
Epic.
How has this avoided the Best VGM till now? :D
No way! I just started playing this haha. I LOVE this theme.
@thedonoftrek It's just another God of War. A mockery of Castlevania.
I <3 Super Castlevania IV
Oh and BTW you put "Simont" instead of "Simon" in the title.
No "new Castlevania" can ever compare to the testament that is this holy game. This is the best Castlevania in the entire series and will forever remain that way.
AWESOME!! xD So many memories :D
This brings up so much good memories... T-T
@whit52489 Depends on how good you are. You first time may take several hours. Once you get experience it's very short, but also very enjoyable.
I think AVGN did a series of vids about Castlevania lately because of the new release.
Finally! Finally! The most epic Castlevania song is here! I just loved this theme as soon as I heard it.
I hear the new Cv is a lot more like GodOW than the last Cv games.
Now I get Hank Hill's singing. Awesome song, thank you.
WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HA-oh wait.
Wow. This is a coincidence of terrific proportion. I am doing a video game music series on Facebook and this was the song that I played just four days ago! It's halloween season, and I have Castlevania on my mind.
The Castlevania Chronicles version was also awesome. I can't decide if this or Dawn of Sorrow are my favorite Castlevania games.
This is the most perfect theme ever created for a man who kills the things that go bump in the night.
The newest Castlevania is out today! I'm super busy this week but I'll definitely pick it up friday. Castlevania IV is one of my favorite games of all time. I think it might be the game I've finished the most, I go through it 3-4 times a year because to me it's a perfect game to play in short bursts when I don't feel like doing anything. Forest of Monsters is my favorite original theme from this game (I even made a cover), but the soundtrack is overall amazing.