Thunder Force VI - Orn Mantra (Stage 6-A)

[ikeaaron]

How did you extract this music? I've been desperately trying to get this OST off the disc since I bought it...

[jbmaru]

I'd have seen this rather as the music of a desert level. Then something more dramatic/heroic for the last level.

[Ebb5458]

Also, am I the only one who thinks this sounds similar to World 2 of Super Mario Bros. 3?

[mab5458]

Sounds so Middle Eastern...

[Stroude]

i was thinking that as well... prob y their not bringing out TF6 for america/europe

[mab5458]

My mom said that it was very Indian, though... But what does it sound like, Middle Eastern music or Indian music?

[Stroude]

certainly from around that area

[BlacktailFA]

I think it might be based on Mongolian music --- the Orn Empire in Thunder Force VI taunts the player in an ancient Mongolian language spoken in the time of Ghengis Khan, and there are other subtle allusions in this game to wars fought between China and Mongolia.

[Ebb5458]

Wait... The Orn Empire taunts the player in Mongolian? I know something is said when you fight the end boss, but it was the Orn Empire speaking to you? The music sounded a bit Indian when I first heard it, though...

[BlacktailFA]

Ebb5458,

"Wait... The Orn Empire taunts the player in Mongolian? I know something is said when you fight the end boss, but it was the Orn Empire speaking to you? The music sounded a bit Indian when I first heard it, though..."

The bosses in Thunder Force VI are all agents of Orn, so essentially the Empire IS taunting the player.

As for the music, the sounds, instruments, and themes used are common throughout Asia, so it may well be a Mongolian-style theme --- it DOES sound very Indian, though.

[XGluon]

Sounds Egyptian to me.