Alright so theres this one rock band called BEYONDS. I found them through Spotify recs, which is the most boring story possible for finding bands, but it is what it is. Some people say they're emo, but I don't think they're quite there, they're too thrash for that too at points beyond the vocal melodies and shit. They're alt rock but with a weird dosage of hardcore and thrash. SeaMeal has a way more emo version of their song "Revenge of the Lawn" which is pretty good, though.
It recommended me their first album, titled "UNLUCKY". I heard it and liked it but then I heard it many more times and their second album "The World, Changed Into Sunday Afternoon" many many times too. I became a fucking fiend for these 17 songs (counting the bonus song on "UNLUCKY"). I heard those 17 songs around 600 times total, I think, because I didn't scrobble all the times I heard them on my phone, so I can't be 100%. It's been some months and I still listen to these albums a lot.
My point in explaining all of this is I keep thinking of these songs, right. My favorite song on "UNLUCKY" is called "I CAN'T EXPLAIN". It's got a guitar solo that's like a watered down version of a Slayer solo as to make it sad, which then becomes a readable lead part which still feels slightly broken despite the melodic content being perfectly sound. After that solo, the chorus kicks in again but instead of singing "oh oh oh, I can't explain" like normal, Ken Taniguchi goes "oh oh oh oh ohhhh ohhhh ohhhh, oh oh oh ohhh, ohhh ohh ohh" then he goes "I can't explain". That section of the song is how this game feels.
Why does Mario feel so weird? I like him being weighty on SM64. Here he's just, you know, sad. It feels a bit sad seeing him slip around a little bit, like he does. It feels a bit sad seeing him get small again when he takes a hit, and seeing enemy sprites flicker. I feel a bit defeated whenever I encounter a Hammer Bro, especially. Like, why are they like that? Kinda deeply sad game. How does Bowser keep showing up? The stages feel so listless individually. It's both got a lot going for it and nothing. It's Super Mario Bros. and all that entails, but also, it's Super Mario Bros., in all its silly things we take for granted because it's so important and whatnot. The "cutscenes" where Mario just walks to a pipe and teleports into the next stage... so sad. I don't know, man.
It recommended me their first album, titled "UNLUCKY". I heard it and liked it but then I heard it many more times and their second album "The World, Changed Into Sunday Afternoon" many many times too. I became a fucking fiend for these 17 songs (counting the bonus song on "UNLUCKY"). I heard those 17 songs around 600 times total, I think, because I didn't scrobble all the times I heard them on my phone, so I can't be 100%. It's been some months and I still listen to these albums a lot.
My point in explaining all of this is I keep thinking of these songs, right. My favorite song on "UNLUCKY" is called "I CAN'T EXPLAIN". It's got a guitar solo that's like a watered down version of a Slayer solo as to make it sad, which then becomes a readable lead part which still feels slightly broken despite the melodic content being perfectly sound. After that solo, the chorus kicks in again but instead of singing "oh oh oh, I can't explain" like normal, Ken Taniguchi goes "oh oh oh oh ohhhh ohhhh ohhhh, oh oh oh ohhh, ohhh ohh ohh" then he goes "I can't explain". That section of the song is how this game feels.
Why does Mario feel so weird? I like him being weighty on SM64. Here he's just, you know, sad. It feels a bit sad seeing him slip around a little bit, like he does. It feels a bit sad seeing him get small again when he takes a hit, and seeing enemy sprites flicker. I feel a bit defeated whenever I encounter a Hammer Bro, especially. Like, why are they like that? Kinda deeply sad game. How does Bowser keep showing up? The stages feel so listless individually. It's both got a lot going for it and nothing. It's Super Mario Bros. and all that entails, but also, it's Super Mario Bros., in all its silly things we take for granted because it's so important and whatnot. The "cutscenes" where Mario just walks to a pipe and teleports into the next stage... so sad. I don't know, man.