Music that sounds like Super Metroid

the electronic vocal stabs there always get to me

yeah, like 16-bit Orchestra Hits, except not shit.

Something really insidious about the whole Metroid aesthetic. It would be lazy to compare it to the Alien films. The theme I just posted comes quite near the start of the game after you go around exploring empty catacombs for quite a while in near-silence. Then you enter a room, trigger something, and when you walk back out the place is crawling with beasties.

It has been a while, but -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHWSAZ3fZsQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CftPz16DzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOqo_xYlGoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdjR6vd4gBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqN9B8XeUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEfcYClZif4

i wish i could find more music like that melancholic theme that plays when you're in the lower swamp areas

if you listen to the analogue synth remake of brinstar, it can easily be a track off of camel's snow goose

this is really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0CNm6E9IA

fast forward to 0:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3UgDxxe5Q

that would be a specific reference to the ending music in metroid nes but it was reused in some way or another in other iterations

this is kind of great: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Qa0KkENVn8FTX0sOj64QQ

Just hurry up and release this shit on vinyl okay?

completed it yesterday. took me 8 hrs and I only got 75% of the items which is pretty lousy considering how much I played it when I was younger. some parts are ridiculously tricky.

anyway I think someone mentioned it upthread but there's actually a really lovely bit of Japanese style cool jazz niceness that takes place in some of the Maridia sections that's at odds with the menacing vibe of the rest of the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSTHg3O8-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9ZVPTTZ1U