The very best video game tune of the 8/16-bit-era.
Rank 1: Lufia II - To The Future (SNES)
Song Awards: Best SNES Tune, Best 16bit Tune, Best Tune on a Home Console
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The very best video game tune of the 8/16-bit-era.
Rank 1: Lufia II - To The Future (SNES)
Song Awards: Best SNES Tune, Best 16bit Tune, Best Tune on a Home Console
And here we have it. The video game tune to end all other video game tunes, Lufia II's ending theme. This is absolutely, stunningly beautiful. I also like how this is called "To The Future" - like a dare to all the CD-based systems that were already coming then, to beat this tune with whatever amount of space they need - something that could not be done even though this is only 65 Kilobytes big on the original cartridge. Yes, that's right, the whole six minutes of this fit into 65 Kilobytes.
Maybe the most beatiful melody ever composed, and do you remeber the ending? The best, most tragic, ending in video game history. Even with the technology provided today - voice acting, high-res cinematics and CD-based soundtracks - nobody ever came close to this. All because no developer has the balls to bring out a bad ending these days. Every single person in the entire world has to be ultimately happy as soon as the final boss is dead. That means pulling off stuff like this is impossible.
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Oh man. This is a surprise... I only played Lufia II once, and the ending was really emotional... that was at least 5 years ago, and I only heard this song that one time, but I guess it really stuck with me, because as soon as this started playing, I recognized the tune immediately and could hear it in my head as it was playing. Good times...
great song didn't realize SNES had such great fretless bass sound. Pretty shitty screencap in my opinion no offense still all respect is paid for the share.
Well done! There really should be more appreciation for Chiptunes, it's amazing what one to three people with a keyboard could do with so few sound channels. Your list covers basically all of my favorites, but you missed a solid game, and that astonished me. Where's the Super Mario RPG The Legend of the Seven Stars?? Did it not sound Chiptune-y enough? Other than that, awesome list! Keep it up! ^_^
Easily the best game ever made in my opinion, beating out even Chrono Trigger.
I got EXTREMELY close to crying (I was trying to hold back) both times I heard this.
Lufia II is a display of what humanity is all about, what makes life worth living for. The characters aren't superheroes, they're normal human beings (well, Artea's an elf, but...). It's just SO EPIC...
An overall fantastic game and I totally agree with your thoughts on developers not wanting to make sad endings in video games. I played this when I was in my early teens, and again when I was 17 or so, and really had to stop myself from crying.
Listening to it now at age 21, I can still remember its great story and ending, easily #1 in the tear jerker department.
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I got EXTREMELY close to crying (I was trying to hold back) both times I heard this.
Lufia II is a display of what humanity is all about, what makes life worth living for. The characters aren't superheroes, they're normal human beings (well, Artea's an elf, but...). It's just SO EPIC...
Listening to it now at age 21, I can still remember its great story and ending, easily #1 in the tear jerker department.