Topic: SHOCKING NEWS: MercurySteam/Konami initally had Yamane's music for LoS...

[Shiroi Koumori]

I would just like to add that Castlevania music for me has something in it that can easily be hummed and that makes it catchy for me.

[Dremn]

I would just like to add that Castlevania music for me has something in it that can easily be hummed and that makes it catchy for me.

Pretty much this.

[Ahasverus]

So Lament of Innocence is not Castlevania music?

For me CV music is inherently dark, powerful or melancholic, that's the only condition, that's what I despise some PoR - OOE music

[Flame]

LoI was plenty catchy. It had some really catchy beats. Anti soul mysteries lab comes to mind

[Rugal]

Castlevania music pre LoS is good. Castlevania "music" from LoS on sucks.

There's your differentiation right there.

[Shinobi]

So Lament of Innocence is not Castlevania music?

For me CV music is inherently dark, powerful or melancholic, that's the only condition, that's what I despise some PoR - OOE music

My same thoughts, POR and OOE music sounded too magical making it fitting to Harry Potter movies

[Ahasverus]

LoI was plenty catchy. It had some really catchy beats. Anti soul mysteries lab comes to mind

It has as many catchy tunes as LoS, one in a million, it was pretty atmospheric. It was a great soundtrack. I still like CoD more because Yamane was on fire, her best work since SOTN.

My same thoughts, POR and OOE music sounded too magical making it fitting to Harry Potter movies

Because when I think Dracula I think jazz. Jesus.

[beingthehero]

For me CV music is inherently dark, powerful or melancholic, that's the only condition, that's what I despise some PoR - OOE music

nigga u crazy

PoR's music was pretty much a continuation of CV1 and Haunted Castle's style - upbeat, catchy, and pretty cheesy. As for OoE, I don't know why you'd say it wasn't dark, powerful, or melancholic. Heck, even SCIV had jazz - remember Stage 3?

[beingthehero]

Or for that matter, Dracula's Tears in DoS, or Rondo's happy synthpop, like Opus 13. Or even SotN's jazzy cavern music.  Castlevania has always had upbeat and non-gothic stuff along with the "dark" music. Certainly a lot of Rondo's music (outside of Bloody Tears) in particular will not conjour up any image of Dracula.

[Ahasverus]

I know the series has had jazz influences since its beginning, and those tracks feel out of loop to me. Feels like a cartoon.
The difference between Opus13 and the SOTN one is that the SOTN one is still mysterious and powerful, kinda mystical, its instrumentation is anachronic but the melodic line isn't. That's a big difference.

[Flame]

Castlevania music pre LoS is good. Castlevania "music" from LoS on sucks.

There's your differentiation right there.

Because when I think Dracula I think jazz. Jesus.

IMO, only SotN can get away with Jazz. Because 90's.

[KaZudra]

I bet if Nujabes made the music for a new castlevania game, Hip-hop would be a plausible genre for the series

[Ahasverus]

I bet if Nujabes made the music for a new castlevania game, Hip-hop would be a plausible genre for the series

I'd rather die.

[beingthehero]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPfsbGR1Foo

But it's been done already and it's glorious

[Ahasverus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPfsbGR1Foo

But it's been done already and it's glorious

kill me.