N.EX.T - The Vampire Saga (Slayer's Theme)
Tonfa, who has gone through a strange mix-up in which he claimed to drop out of submitting songs and then it turns out that apparently he is still in this thing, returns once again to bring us a song from some Guilty Gear game. As I'm not sure which part of his edit is part of the name of the game and which is part of the soundtrack, I'm not going to try to say which one. This time around, the song appears to be The Vampire Saga, theme of some character named Slayer. Perhaps.
Like the previous three reviews have all said or elaborated upon, the song does seem to sound familiar to something a few of us couldn't identify, and Walrus claims it sounds like Castlevania. I agree with all three of them, that it does sound very familiar, and it does bare a strong resemblance to Castlevania music. I'm tempted to say the organs remind me of one of two Castlevania themes, being either Vampire Killer or Bloody Tears. I'm leaning more towards the former.
The song itself opens with percussion and guitars, which then momentarily drop for some organ-y stuff, followed by the guitars copying the organs. At around :25, the two groups split up for a few seconds to do some stuff, and then they repeat from where the guitars copy the organs to :25 again, but this time at :50, they go to do some new stuff which involves chord progressions and arpeggios. At 1:14 we begin some guitar fancypants playing which leads into more organ solos, followed by guitars playing with them. This seems to go on for the rest of the song, essentially. Once we get to 2:18, however, we get what sounds like NES 8-bit synth insturments with their own solo, which for some strange reason reminds me a little bit of Gradius. We then find ourselves returning to the same stuff that happens at the beginning, but the ending is composed of a little organ solo.
How I'm seeing this song is that I'm finding it catchy, slightly nostalgic, and very repetitive. In short, I liked it, but the composition could have been better.
Score: 7.5/10
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