Suikoden I OST - Passacaria ~ Neclord's Castle Theme

Music from the soundtrack of Suikoden.

Title: Passacaria
Composer: Miki Higashino
Arrangement: Tappi Iwase

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• suikoden
• ost
• soundtrack
• music
• passacaria
• neclord
• neclords
• castle
• theme
• miki
• higashino
• tappi
• iwase
• konami

[Dumaiu]

The word the translators were looking for is 'passacaglia,' which, rather remarkably, it is. Hearing something of this scope in game BGM is still very unusual.

[PeyserConley]

Yep, the title was corrected in Suikoden II's soundtrack.

[sevaryn11]

What exactly does 'passacaglia' mean? A blind-idiot Babelfish returns 'it passes curdles', which doesn't even make much sense from an idiomatic standpoint.

[PeyserConley]

I'm not an expert on this, so I'm just gonna copy and paste: In music a passacaglia (French: passacaille) is a musical form and the corresponding court dance. Its name derives from the Spanish pasar (to walk) and calle (street), supposedly to denote the music played by wandering musicians.

[Axtuse]

This is the place that I took most of my low level characters to build up.

I'm a level grind whore.

[Cobretti89]

wow i love this song

[fullmetalgohan]

You can hear the hint of wedding music in it.... how awsome and creative they are. dark wedding music for a batchlor vampire lol

[yogoshun]

Neclord's castle had better music in the first game in my opinion.

[ekimthegib]

Climbing to the top of the castle to this theme was awesome.

[MisterGency]

I literally haven't played or even thought of Suikoden in over 5 years, then this morning I have this exact song stuck in my head, and know what it is without a second thought. Now I've been listening to the various tracks from the game for a good 45 minutes, haha.

[Skuttzor]

@sevaryn11 A passacaglia is a musical form in which the piece is based on a repeated section with some variations, if you listen you can hear the main theme repeating over and over again. it's an old style from the baroque period.

[eptonsi]

"Viktor dislikes this"

[Karmoon7]

I could imagine this in any Castlevania game.

That automatically makes it a success for anything vampire related.

Wait, aren't they both Konami? Daamn, would have been funny if after beating Neclord some dude with no pants and bottles of holy water comes and chases him off, for stealing mens' souls.

[Duchyism]

@PeyserConley Sorry for answering to a two-year-old comment :P In case you were wondering, passacaglia is kinda like... a theme and variations: you notice that the bass line stays the same during the whole piece, as does the harmony.

[jbragg85]

@Axtuse u and me both man... with so many characters on an rpg, I'm always finding the best places to level up so everyone can do max hp damage

[capcom23]

@Axtuse lol, me too :P