Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance OST FULL

Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance Game Boy Advance
Website:eunsetee.com/SZv2
On the site you will have information about the characters and villains.
Feito para game boy advance:
Conta a história de um outro belmont.
Assim como os outros castlavanias
sua jornada é destinada ao castélo do Drácula efim.
Existe também a versão em português.

[@herohamza1196]

0:04 prologue 2:05 title screen 2:36 game entry 4:10 successor of fate 5:51 offense and defense 7:56 approach to despair 9:22 luminous caverns 11:33 aqueduct of dragons 13:10 chapel of dissonance 14:32 clock tower 15:54 skeleton den 17:27 demonic castle 18:52 beloved person 20:59 dark covenant 22:17 decisive battle 23:50 epilogue 1 25:21 incarnation of dark 26:12 old enemy 27:45 epilogue 2 29:58 mechant theme 30:32 dark door 31:36 knight head Vampire Killer is missing

[@locoboy99sderping91]

You switched the names of Skeleton Den and Aqueduct of Dragons :P

[@DaedalosC9]

@@locoboy99sderping91 it happens in many videos, they probably labeled that wrong in the OST cd or from the main download website

[@pmd9801]

Soushirou Hokkai, the main composer, wrote the following comment at the liner note for the original soundtrack album: "Sorry for people who disappointed. As you heard, it uses PSG sound module mainly. Such a limitation was needed to realize an action game which approaches "Nocturne in the Moonlight" for PS. And you may know, GBA has specification that makes the adjustment of the PSG volume difficult. However, I never gave up and tried rich expression. Also for the composition, I tried to get back the progressive factors to game music." Source: VGM or Chiptune of The Year 2002 (VORC).

[@jensvide777]

This soundtrack is dope! He should not have apologized.

[@padriandusk7107]

@@jensvide777 I can understand those who didn't like that ost of felt it was inferior to, say, Circle of the Moon's. It really felt like the GBA was PAINFULLY screaming the sound. The melodies are nice and all, and in the end, it's quite good after a while. But really, Circle of the Moon had a more pleasing sound designed OST for ears. Maybe without PSG, things would've turned out just sublime.

[@jensvide777]

@@padriandusk7107 Oh? I haven't played HoD on GBA(I emulated) so I wouldn't know. I have, however, played Circle of the Moon on GBA, and those songs sure sound great on the GBA speaker. Better than any KZbin rip actually

[@padriandusk7107]

@@jensvide777 I agree, Circle of the Moon is great. I owned Circle of the Moon, and then HoD on my GBA back then and was slightly taken aback with both visuals and sound. I even wondered if there wasn't some downgrade or something. Well, Circle of the Moon used to be sold in stores for 45 euros or so for nearly a year. HoD? I got it for...29 euros, i think, roughly two months after its release. Both brand new of course. That alone is another sad sign.....

[@nighthoodlupin3500]

If he felt that what he had to work with was limited by using PSG, then he definitely made up for it with the harder work he put into compositions. I understand the apology because at first I was one of those disappointed people, since I played both CotM and HoD on the days they released and was following news about them on IGN those days in the early 00s. There were many fans, including myself, for whom the music of Castlevania was always a big deal and when we learned it would be taking a hit in music quality so that they could make a game more like SotN in other ways, we were disappointed by that (maybe mixed feelings is more accurate). It took many years of hearing HoD's ost on its own, without comparison to CotM or other games, to truly appreciate HoD's OST for what it is. Now I love it. There are OSTs back on the NES that still sound better than some modern OSTs. It's not the sound module or instrument, it's what you do with it that counts.

[@SephRaz]

I personally found the sound to be very pleasing. It has a very bright and specific sound to it that screams "Harmony of Dissonance" alone. Ironically, the music is sort of a harmonic dissonance. Sounds bad to people, yet I find it pleasing.

[@darklordyianni4463]

it;as amazing

[@egmusic1925]

Harmony of DIssonance was enough to sell me. Dissonant music with harmony mixed in fits Castlevania perfectly

[@ConnorJara]

This composer is such a badass, the details he got from such a limited soundchip is a miracle. Also really loved how progressive he made some of these tracks. Castlevanias foundation relys on the strength of its music. Even the titles of the games denote music's importance to the series. The soundtrack for Dissonance is especially nostalgic for me :)

[@najendasabigbossu4423]

5:50 YES!! Best OST in the game!

[@latinoheat619916]

13:10 The best track of the game

[@pepsitv1871]

It’s bloodlines

[@amateursand]

the beginning kinda sounds like kirby to me

[@nighthoodlupin3500]

That's a great one, but Offense & Defense at 5:50 is not only my favorite but probably one of my top 5 Castlevania tracks of all time. The unique composition and energy never fails to blow my mind after 100s of listens.

[@yani4349]

@@nighthoodlupin3500 I agree!

[@cristiancamilocuta61]

Nostálgico e invaluable....fascinante

[@DDAngel1]

4:10 my fave 1

[@Fyubu]

mine too perfct song

[@DDAngel1]

Successor Of Fate is its name!! 👍🙃☺🎼🎮🎹

[@sebacarp2007]

Una obra de arte.

[@KeyleeTamirian]

I always loved Harmony of Dissonance ost from the start. I love it so much, that it's usually the main reason i want to replay it ^^

[@zanegandini5350]

I really don't see why everyone else is criticizing the quality of the OST. This is my first time hearing it and I wish I heard it sooner.

[@Nikku4211]

A lot of people were criticising the quality of the OST because a GBA game is expected to sound almost like SNES music, and not expected to sound like something from a keygen.

[@nighthoodlupin3500]

Speaking only for myself and from what I read from a few other Castlevania fans at the time, when the game was released it was compared directly with the quality of Circle of the Moon's OST, the GBA Castlevania that released just before this one. Plus, I swear in some interviews with people who worked on the game, they admited themselves that they had to use lower quality audio in order to make the game more like SotN in terms of visuals, so that may have given a lot of people an early negative bias towards the music. I think it's easier to give the soundtrack a more fair listen without those biases in mind. When the game came out I thought it sounded worse than CotM, but revisiting the game years later I now love the OST way more than CotM's. Of course, the game does use lower quality synth, but it has far more creative and interesting compositions.

[@chibishortdeath]

Castlevania has a lot of soundtracks where I find myself liking or loving every single song, and this is definitely one of them.

[@PauloHenrique-kz1cq]

The composition is phenomenal, very complex and full of layers. Unfortunetly the audio quality may scary most of people that played it, but those who can stand it certainly found gold.

[@kylekaldhusdal4071]

What people take for granted about the 8-bit sounds is that the NES and GB had so few channels that they could never realize a soundtrack with this many harmonies going on. It is so awesome to hear jazzy and dissonant chords with the sound of 8-bit, in my opinion. It's honestly too bad there weren't MORE good composers using the PSG module.

[@kanzenchowa9868]

Juste in such an awesome character. Even if he slightly looks like another wannabe alucard, still want to see him in more games.

[@vladymyrdracula]

20:59 "Halt! The color of your soul... You must be a Belmont"

[@darklordyianni4463]

It's one of my all-time fave Castlevania games, i don't care what(some)people say. I LOVE IT.

[@j.martinez8767]

I'ts my most played Castlevania, it just so easy and fun to through, besides the great ost and art.

[@ExinerisLP]

I admit I only played this game when the Advance collection was released last year, but the music is one of my favourite parts of this game, it stood out to me the most. I never would have had any idea that people disliked it because of the sound quality. I grew up on NES and constantly listen to VG music of that era so maybe that's why it never bothered me, but even so, the compositions themselves are nothing short of fantastic.

[@vincentgatlin4726]

Most horror-esque Castlevania score. Yet people don't like it because it sounds depressing and uncomfortable. Ha!

[@zanegandini5350]

+VincentGatlin I totally agree with you. People keep bitching about the quality, yet here I am listening to it with my headphones loving it.

[@vincentgatlin4726]

I feel like if anything the low quality adds to the creepiness! I think people should just be happy!

[@zanegandini5350]

VincentGatlin I personally like the 8-bit sound a bit better than the muffly SNES-ish soundchip of the GBA.

[@yvesecheverria252]

+VincentGatlin most people can't feel the "harmony of dissonance" in the ost

[@soulcrona5650]

Yves Echeverria I have no idea what your talking about because all i hear is screeching

[@MotherRat-ii6ji]

This is one of those soundtracks that grows on you over time while you're playing through the game.

[@SophieBrecaGaming]

Love this OST!

[@amateursand]

I really enjoy the soundtrack, even more so because of the chiptune aesthetic. Despite what people say, this soundtrack is my favorite of the three gba games.

[@oridotan3865]

The first song is a masterpiece! Very few can even touch it.

[@Synathidy]

The ultimate test of any game soundtrack is this: does the music get caught in your head? For me, the answer is yes here. So I must count the soundtrack as a success, despite any technical limitations of the sound quality which resulted from the very clear prioritization of graphics. This is one of the exceptionally few cases I can point to of a game not completely screwing itself by making such an imbalanced compromise. Rather, I would say it has given this game a distinctive identity. I know of no other GBA game that treats you to PS1 graphics combined with high-quality 8-bit style soundtrack. It's trippy. But not bad.

[@NessKuwabara]

This is the best soundtrack of all the 3 GBA games and one of the most underrated soundtracks ever. The compositions are consistently strong and catchy. People didn't like it because they weren't expecting the 8 bit sound/aesthetic, but the roughness of the samples effectively builds the atmosphere along with the grotesque, horror-y enemy and environment designs. "Harmony of Dissonance". It's too bad the game was so easy.

[@JewelOfSoul]

About the game being so easy, I remember having less trouble with Aria of Sorrow than with this one.

[@magicowlofbacon9416]

This game does have really interesting composition, but that doesn't mean the in-game versions are good. They sound very unfinished, but the underlying composition is very good and on-par with the rest of the series. I honestly love this game's composition, but the in-game versions quite often feel like 2008 youtube 8-bit remixes (the ones with lots of static that are slightly off-key)

[@Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist]

People complaining about the harsh sound don't understand what the term 'Dissonance' means

[@MetalUndergroundDemo]

What about 'harmony'

[@nighthoodlupin3500]

It's "Harmony of Dissonance", not "Dissonance of Harmony", lol. Its easy for this sountrack to make a bad first impression, but if you really take the time to listen to it and the way the tracks are composed, it's got a unique power to it. I like it more than CotM's OST now.

[@felentelechy]

this has to be one of my favourite videogame soundtracks/ gameboy game

[@darklordyianni4463]

same

[@DaedalosC9]

Konami should release a remastered album of all the gba osts, to listen to them like they were originally composed

[@darkarthur]

17:27 fav >

[@CriticalHarvester]

Same

[@vansajexora]

should we be concerned that Juste looks like he could be Alucard's brother

[@DeborahGoldenflower]

Maybe Sonia had a baby with Alucard after all 😂

[@myapnikerynic]

Kharoda if so, it was Trevor

[@flyinyoku3543]

His skin is completely white, and he has completely white hair at 18 years old. It's not just the art style because Maxim and the merchant don't look anything like that. Even if he had albinism he wouldn't look like that. He must have some vampire in him.

[@johndrake5975]

Years back (like about 15 years ago) I thought that was Alucard on the cover. Didn't cross my mind until I played it that he was a different person

[@Judex1963]

I once read on a HG101 review that Sin and Punishment's soundtrack on the N64 sucked. Since then, whenever i read that a game's soundtrack sucks, i listen to it, and more often than not it's a good surprise.

[@AsgrodElros]

5:50

[@user-gj1ne5ql5c]

Asgrod Elros just，you know，awesome masterpiece this one is！

[@jonathanbizi6712]

[@escarabajomayih]

[@nighthoodlupin3500]

That's called Offense and Defense. Easily my favorite track. One of the best in the series too!

[@darklordyianni4463]

once yet again, i loved this

[@invisoweasel]

I loved this soundtrack when I was young. It's a real shame that so many people hated it because of the more 8 bit tone of the samples being kind of grating. The compositions themselves are just great.

[@Relugus]

This. The compositons themselves are great. The PSG is clunky but even that, to me, has a certain charm. Would be cool if the OST was remade with proper instruments.

[@nezatrebovan]

@@Relugus It is. And result is amazing kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHW1Yp-tp5xpbas

[@sarahlaw3948]

Man I miss this game :(

[@darklordyianni4463]

same....

[@DomVelando]

some people actually like the tinny 8 bit chip sound though...

[@Despatche]

Those people recognize that this "tinny 8-bit sound" isn't actually unpleasant and is a valid sound itself.

[@WackySwackyAdventure]

20:57, 25:20, and 13:10 are probably my favorites

[@Uedukai]

Amazing game OST

[@douglasmedeiros2530]

1000 sub, gratz!

[@avalona6412]

Thanks for uploading!

[@stacymitchell1890]

Looking back, such a great game.

[@Data4664]

+Stacy Mitchell Get it on Wii U E-shop cheap;)

[@stacymitchell1890]

Data4664 No way GBA Castlevanias are on the WiiU virtual console?! Thta's great but I hate Nintendo and promised never to buy a WiiU... Maybe in the future...

[@Data4664]

Stacy Mitchell Yes right GBA games N64 games SNES and a lot more. Buy a Wii U for Zelda next year and NOW Xenoblade Chronicles X biggest game for Wii U this year.

[@RandArtz]

2:36 SUS

[@Desk-O-lorido]

B R U H 💀

[@escarabajomayih]

Hernoso

[@Data4664]

Amazing epic game classic everyone should play it.

[@Cp2020_animations]

I love the "ugly" of this game

[@jonathanbizi6712]

" 5:51"

[@alienisotope5773]

underrated music in the series. it feels like Castlevania 3 on amphetamines

[@Synathidy]

What an interesting description, lol.

[@Darktobia]

I have this game with aria of sorrow to best games ever

[@jonathanbizi6712]

5:50 sim esse som é o meu favorito

[@cipher_db8992]

This is probably my favorite soundtrack of the GBA trilogy. Honestly not sure why it's so disliked. Relies less on series remixes than the others, and a ton of tracks here immediately get stuck in my head once I hear them. The lo-fi synth sound effect the game mandated works for it too. A lot of it is like the off-beat jazz of Castlevania IV meets dancey chiptunes. It rules.

[@sternenfahrt999]

Gameboy Advance is the best video game console ever made.

[@naturalharmoniagropius3262]

Clock tower is the best and it's my favorite area! Best clock tower ever

[@ricardoss348]

This game demands a remake!! These tracks are wonderful but the quality lowered make them almost unconfortable !

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

Ricardo Guedes i think “uncomfortable” makes them effective! It makes the atmosphere scarier!

[@RealSpectrum]

The discomfort is central to the enjoyment of these pieces. Try to embrace that discomfort, it strengthens the experience of the game as a whole.

[@ArmaBiologica35]

If there is one video game soundtrack that needs a remastered version, is this one. Beautiful songs but they sound like something out of an Atari 2600 game.

[@stephencheney9811]

My theory is that the graphics were so much better in this game (or at least brighter) than COTM that they had to sacrifice space on the sound quality. Blech.

[@Zykrilf]

31:30 My ear remembers how hard this boss was.

[@Jordan3DS]

They really compressed this to hell, it sounds like a Game Boy Color game

[@jackman464]

13:10 people cant say that this doesn't sound good

[@xanderwilliams4045]

where can i download this whole ost?

[@hackedsuccessfully7580]

5:51

[@escapebeyond7078]

29:57 based

[@OscarGonzalez-fu5ps]

Look up goodknight productions if you want to hear a cleaner version of this OST. I still prefer this version though

[@felentelechy]

it is quite good but the flute bits seem a bit off in the goodnight version

[@spamuel98]

I would love to buy a remastered version of this game with new graphics and a full on orchestral remake of the original music, but I can't tell what some of these instruments are supposed to be because they're their own amazing thing.

[@kosmosyche]

The music itself is brilliant (imho, of course), it's just that it was compromised by the sound quality. I wish the whole soundtrack was remixed on good hardware, that could make it justice.

[@joaonitro5149]

Are you implying that the gba isn't good hardware?

[@Synathidy]

They allocated an ABSURD amount of this game's memory to visuals. And it shows. The visuals are out of this world. This left little cartridge space for making a soundtrack as high-quality as say... Golden Sun or Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire. Games like the latter two clearly demonstrate that the GBA was capable of high quality sound. This game's visuals were just SO pumped up that there was little ability to have high quality music. As you note, the compositions are good. The quality is just sacrificed. I wish they had made the visuals just a little less colorful to squeeze some more audio quality out of the original cartridge.

[@jojoefs]

One of the best Castlevania OST's in terms of pure composition but sadly under-served by the crappy samples on this game compared to Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow.

[@Despatche]

It kinda amazes me that people think horribly compressed samples are better than the crisp "8-bit" sound they'd adore anywhere else.

[@Nikku4211]

@Despatche Those people that think so don't like the primitive sound of an old system, and want video game audio to progress further, and I can understand that. Not everyone appreciates chiptune. Horribly compressed samples, to them, are a step forward from what is, to them, _beep boop bleep blip_.

[@darklordyianni4463]

indeed, it;s so gothic

[@hyldenchampchamp498]

I actually love this ost. It's really complex, and would make for a great soundtrack if it was remade in better quality.

[@natopomato93]

uh oh that white boi got a whip

[@johndrake5975]

OOP-

[@natopomato93]

@@johndrake5975 it's okay I think he's french

[@fakepapertiger528]

@@natopomato93 i have some bad news for you about french history

[@theoriginaljean3917]

These tracks are actually amazing. It's fhe sound quality of the tracks itself that butchers them

[@theoriginaljean3917]

At least some lol

[@iagocorreia2458]

+theoriginaljean Nope. The tracks are amazing. Their sound quality is fine. Just perfectly noisy.

[@TheDarthMasterChief]

I agree entirely! The compression on the actual environments art AND the sound is the big reason that I never liked this game much and never replayed it. It would be better if it was on something bigger than a gameboy cartridge and it was lengthened out a bit.

[@GoldieTamamo]

That, and if they didn't make Juste float around for what feels like a full minute between jumps, and walk like he's taking steps on the moon. Seriously, making any kind of precise mid-air attack in that game was like rolling dice, and it's made even worse when you consider how many flying enemies their were to slam into you... I swear, this game had medusa heads and peeping eyes in more screens than any other Metroidvania bar-none.

[@andreworozco8439]

Juste is one of the most agile Belmonts. I don't think I ever made him walk. Dashing with the shoulder buttons was too much fun. Pairing that with his double jump to drop kick, Juste was a beast. This game was meant for speedrunning.

[@wheatleythebrick2276]

this game is supposed to have a darker setting, that explains the depressing ost and everything, doesnt excuse the sound quality tho

[@titanium_rocket1505]

I want to hear these compositions with better detail

[@fernandobrotto3059]

This game deserves a better soundtrack

[@Alias_Anybody]

The fact that the GBA had such underwhelming sound hardware forced them to work around it, causing GBA soundtracks to sound pretty diverse. How much 8-bit tunes were used for example varies wildly. They really ran with it in HoD, lol

[@Synathidy]

It's not that the GBA was inherently incapable of producing amazing-sounding music. I point to Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire and the Golden Sun games as a direct evidence of the system's sound hardware producing great sounds. The problem is that they held this game's visual standards to that of a PS1 game, and after squeezing that level of visual quality on a GBA cartridge, there isn't much space left for audio quality. They didn't work AROUND sound quality here. They made the conscious choice to PUSH sound quality out of the way of graphical quality. The potentially good sound quality was there to use, but they threw it away for visuals.

[@sablebranwen2539]

This soundtrack's only flaw is that it was far too ambitious for the GBA

[@shaq0071]

17:28 name of song

[@happyforme1111]

I can't check the sound test, as I don't have my copy of Harmony of Dissonance with me, but on KZbin I've seen it called both Demonic Castle and To the Center of the Castle. In the sound test, I believe it's neither of these names, it's just called Castle BGM, or something like that.

[@Despatche]

悪魔城の中心へ

[@Elrinth]

this is the best track in the game IMO. Besides the MSX-game this is probably the worst soundtrack of a Castlevania game to date.

[@herohamza1196]

check my comment

[@pacmanfalso4676]

3 songs*

[@PilesOfJuicyMeat]

Man this game would have great music but the limits of the GBA really threw a wrench in the works. Some of the songs still sound pretty good, but you really have to treat it as though you're listening to a game 10 years older than it actually is. GBA had a lot of issues with sound, though other games handled it more gracefully than this. Kind of a shame.

[@SoAndZu]

Just finished HoD. I actually enjoyed it quite a lot, though it was a bit shameless in everything it picked up from SotN. Though it's a common point of criticism, I liked the music, too. Not because it was good (it wasn't), but because it reminded me of Shadowgate, one of my favorite NES games. Though it doesn't speak well of the game that the music quality, at least technically, is NES level stuff. The composition in itself is good though, I reckon.

[@Despatche]

"I like the music for reasons that have nothing to do with the music itself." Shockingly, this is also why everyone *hates* the music. The GBA has the GB sound chip in it, and some developers used it to save space for bigger games on smaller cartridges. HoD was one of these games; even though CotM or AoS use the same cart size, HoD is a bigger game than either of those. The early Yu-Gi-Oh! titles used it for the same reason.

[@StraightOuttaJarhois]

While I disagree with you on the quality of the music, you're right about the Shadowgate vibes. 20:57 especially sounds like it could be an unused track from Shadowgate that somehow wandered into a Castlevania decades later.

[@walkerpierce5446]

It's not great but it's not terrible sounding though.

[@seraphlai9664]

Could be a more credited if only without the synthing sound.

[@whywyatt376]

tiny farts

[@Eidoridori]

I just finished playing this game and i have to admit i hate it.. but i feel it has some kind of charm and is growing on me even though i beat it.. but god... it's just not that good to me compared to Cotm

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

9:21 you would be fucked up if you like that song, very depressing and one of the worst part in a game

[@escarabajomayih]

Yes, is terrible.