Castlevania Legends Music (Game Boy) - Bloody Tears (Stage 1)

[@GB_256]

> Game gets added to Switch Online. > Opens game, never seen gameplay of it before. > Starts first level. > Starts jamming out to the remix of the song. > Immediately gets whiplash from the wrongs notes about 10 seconds in.

[@raghavpatel720]

it's so surreal

[@myriadmediamusings]

Given that at the time Legends was meant to be the first chronologically, one could interpret it as being deliberately different.

[@hansgretl1787]

"Hooray! Hooray! That was great! All those wrong notes you played made it sound more original!" Castlevania Legends: "What? I didn't play any wrong notes!"

[@StarlieW]

Memes aside, the chord progression on that section of the song was really cool, it gives way more energy into the next section

[@progfan234]

Cm, E-flat dom7 add9, A maj7 flat5, A flat maj7, B flat6 The Cm introduces seriousness, the E-flat dom7 add 9 adds a touch of celebration, the A maj7 flat5 makes it suspenseful and the A flat maj7 marks the end of a descent, soon to be lifted earnestly by the B flat6 This is a gorgeous track

[@omegafawful2437]

I found it funny how the same year symphony of the night for the PlayStation and SEGA Saturn came out they still made a game on the game boy, it’s weird how they used the most powerful tech at the time and still used probably one of the least powerful tech at the time in the same year

[@pprinter]

And in the end, both games were pretty great

[@skull8093]

Gameboy was the most reliable portable console avaialable. It's battery lasted longer than any other in it's day.

[@TheChiefSteve]

Cries in GameGear kekw

[@watcherman222]

And then, they did it again with Metal Gear Solid/Ghost Babel on the GBC.

[@xenogen372]

To be fair, if they hadn't, Nintendo would've lacked a good Castlevania game for the fifth generation

[@overipecanine1485]

Sinfully underrated Castlevania classic, as well as the fact that Sonya Belmont is not canon to the lore which also makes me sad. But that won't stop me from loving this game.

[@oguzhansapmaz5277]

I think Trevor may be nephew of sonia.

[@overipecanine1485]

@@oguzhansapmaz5277 He was supposed to be but apparently she is not allowed to exist in that regard for the timeline last I heard which is infuriating. Sonya is freaking cool.

[@Ryan-Petre]

It's so blatantly worse than almost every other classic Castlevania game tho.

[@overipecanine1485]

@@Ryan-PetreCastlevania harmony of despair is not as good to people as Symphony of the Night. Just because there are so many other great entries doesn't mean that this one or others like Harmony of Despair are horrible. I think you should play more Castlevania to see the titles that are actually awful. Like the original Castlevania "The Adventure" on the GB. They made a remake called rebirth that made it better and put it at the same greatness as this game, possibly better!

[@Ryan-Petre]

@@overipecanine1485 I've played all the classic Cas games and I can assure you Legends is one of the worst. Adventure is mostly bad due to it's slow speed and terrible mechanics, but at least there's a level of intelligence behind that game's level design that at least makes it respectable. Legends isn't quite as bad as Adventure but it's almost might be. The levels are generic and mindlessly filled with endlessly respawning enemies, literally every single section of the game with those goddamn bats. There are almost no unique set pieces or obstacles, and the bosses are pretty much invalidated by the ultra OP invisibility mechanic. It's an incredibly sloppily designed game. Compared to Belmont's Revenge it's trash.

[@GattoriSancho]

Man this is the version that kicks the most ass this is the version that needs metal covers

[@rljeric]

i'm on it

[@pensftmfw]

@@rljeric if you pull this off you'll be my hero, sir. subbed to your channel, fingers crossed :)

[@michaelpuglisi6767]

For a measly Game Boy, it’s doing a damn good job with this classic song!

[@splurgyreal]

absolutely not. listen to Alberto Jose Gonzalez's music on the gameboy and you'll realize that this quality is abysmal

[@themaskedkid8495]

@@splurgyreal honestly this is still brilliant quality at the time.

[@SnowySight]

I like to imagine the director told this to the composer: No one will probably play this game, so you can do whatever you want with bloody tears.

[@samuraicupcake289]

This sounds *bloody* amazing! I'm in *tears* !

[@DukeNauticus]

Damn, I had no idea this existed, but I'm so glad to have stumbled across it. Such an amazing remix, and on GAME BOY, of all things! I want to hear a remake of THIS version.

[@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867]

Check out my Castlevania playlist sometime, I collect remixes for all the classic games, got a few remixes of this bgm as well.

[@FredReckling]

This is definitely my favorite version of the song.

[@splurgyreal]

sociopath

[@SEMIA123]

There's some aspects unique to this one and the judgment version, I think judgements version was inspired by this version

[@explod2A03]

@megaspidermoon 1. Sonia Belmont. 2. It's a loose remake of Bloody Tears, you can hear it at several spots in the song. Bloody Tears is also the official name of this track as well, so even if it sounded nothing like the CV2 Bloody Tears... we're stuck calling it that. :) 3. To the best of my understanding, all Game Boy music is 4-bit.

[@slib4646]

Great arrangement of a timeless theme, was nearly like hearing it for the first time all over again. Super under rated OST!

[@SergioVDF360]

Una muy hermosa variante , lastimosamente no es canonica pero vaya música mas genial

[@johnhein2539]

Man this version goes HARD for a gameboy game, I love it.

[@iiVoltageWolf]

8 Bit Black and White Gameboy Castlevania Metal Rock!! YEAH!!! \m/

[@AJTComicsBrand]

This game should've been in the collection.

[@ManyMaxwell]

This song gave me bloody tears...

[@mertvolkan07]

Müzikleri efsane olan oyun serilerinden biri daha, Castlevania.

[@Konamiagent]

Castlevania iyidir ama amına koymuşlar bu versiyonda bloody tears'ın

[@boredstudent]

悪魔城ドラキュラ music is awesome!

[@TheNewEmphinix]

Wish Sonya Belmont was canon.

[@nicolasowen3095]

I starting to understand that there's a larger conspiracy at play concerning Igarashi and Castlevania

[@magnanimousmartyr421]

She is canon to me, and it matters not what others may say.

[@Kris451]

@@magnanimousmartyr421 Sonya is not canon mostly due to a line Alucard says to her in the game. Since Sonya is canonically the earliest Belmont we know, she is the grandmother of the rest. But the line Alucard says to her is if the baby her and Alucard had together is doing okay. Making the rest of the Belmont's in the bloodline related to Dracula. (Edit) That would also mean the rest of the kids would have some vampiric powers but they don't

[@magnanimousmartyr421]

@@Kris451 Honestly I wouldn't necessarily see anything wrong with them being related to Dracula! I mean, after all, it would makes sense, given the existence of The Lords of Shadow Timeline, where The Belmont Clan is related to Dracula!

[@MLPflutterguy]

@@magnanimousmartyr421 agreed, so its ok for lords of shadow but not legends. thats complete bull

[@thefirstguyjaek255]

This version absolutely fucking shreds

[@explod2A03]

@Snip3rNife I'm not sure where 10-bit came from, but a common misconception about game boy audio is that it is '8-bit'. The technical details are a bit above my head, but every reliable source details the game boy as having '4-bit' audio. The bits are kind of irrelevant though. You can have 8-bit FM synthesis (MSX), 8-bit samples (Amiga), PSG (SMS) or whatever. The *type* of synthesis used determines what these systems really sound like moreso than the number of bits. That much I do know. :)

[@moonbug7252]

How does music composed for the game boy go so hard

[@Wflash00]

This sounds so gritty and I love it

[@johneygd]

the gameboy soundchip is 4 bit with 4bit dac,for fm,only 1 bit is needed per fm. the graphics are 2 bits. but since the cpu itself is 8bit,we simply refer those tunes on gameboy as 8bit!! i like this remix of bloody tears well with more speeded up tempo and abit extended.

[@sidneylutara9786]

Absolutely amazing composition. ❤❤❤

[@CHINBO-KACHIWARI]

懐かし 何歳にやっただろうか8歳か？覚えてない（笑）

Man, playing this game with headphones is the way to go!

[@Hertzblush32]

it's like bloody tears if ZUN composed it in the PC-98 era.

[@aeriumsoft]

I can see where youre coming from, all those arpeggios and melody changes lmfao

[@canalsincontenido]

So true. People like tossing the bits as if it meant more than the number of colors per line. "Bits" can mean a ton of things. Most hd cameras have 8 bits of color depth and for a long time 10 or 12 bits of color were considered not recognizable by the eye.

[@Music_Box_Mimic]

One of the best version! :D

[@sebtremblay11]

Oh my god the chills!

[@DarkbluesEXE25]

Excellent Soundtrack Castlevania Legends Bloody Tears

[@saudade969]

This is GREAT

[@ghoulwhip6155]

I used to plug headphones into my game it and just wait on the first level so I could listen to this when it was too dark to play

[@brandonhuitzil5757]

I wish it was a real anime.

[@Coopdaloop22]

...it is

[@rikatoziv2520]

@@Coopdaloop22 i think what she meant was this alternate universe Castlevania

[@Coopdaloop22]

@Brendan Lewis damn thanks for responding 2 years later but i completely disagree with everything you said

[@thomasmacdonough288]

@Brendan Lewis Your opinion is trash and you should feel like trash

[@NiccoloGrindelwald]

Um game tão bom,que foi esquecido dava pra concertar a linha

[@Darkarmor00]

It's bs it isn't cannon, the games that changed that came out ltr. Isn't it usually the games that came out before ltr ones that dictate cannon

[@abeahmed2581]

Someone PLEASE cover this version bro harmonically this one is SO cool

[@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867]

I got a couple covers of this on my Castlevania playlist, mostly covers using other sound fonts like snes, mega drive etc though. Check it out.

[@abeahmed2581]

@@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867 thanks bro

[@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867]

@@abeahmed2581 No problem and you're welcome

[@ABDNABS96]

Sooooo much nostalgia !!! I can't handle this i gatta play the game #.#

[@willzstone]

This goes unreasonably hard

[@rexthesheep]

@explod2A03 10 bit? 4 bit? what are youguys talking about?

[@silvajoao142]

look how epic this shit is, fuck

[@Luigithehomie91]

Lovely mix.

[@tehjefey]

Trying to beat this game xD

[@BloodyHoneyBunny]

screw IGA, this is canon!

[@alucard624]

He's no longer involved so this could be canon again if Konami ever felt like making it canon. It's all up them at this point. This game could still fit with some tinkering here and there even with the official origin story being what happened in Lament of Innocence now.

[@Mudkip971]

@@alucard624 You're both missing the point. They can't just make it canon. The reason it's not is because Dracula's backstory in this game contradicts both SotN and Lament of Innocence, which IGA made. Almost every Catlevania game made afterwards directly references both of those games. This could have only been canon if no other Castlevania games were made after Rondo of Blood and Bloodlines.

[@wolfkiller4]

Mudkip971 Could always be retconned into canon

[@stuff5499]

you also forgot that Sonia had a child with Alucard if Belmonts were descendants of Alucard, then they would be to some extent dhampirs, which would make Vampire killer itself effective against them and they would also have some vampiric powers, which they don't

[@TheDaibu]

@@stuff5499 That, and the fact that the Belmonts being related to Dracula is a concept already being explored by the Lords of Shadow games, so it's not like they plan on doing something else with it.

[@maurocecchi84]

WHAAAAAAT? This is a 8 bit song?! IMPOSSIBLE lol

[@moo422]

Anyone else from the Charlie Cornell video? I've never heard this version of Blood Tears before. This is disgusting. I'm about to jump through a wall.

[@Tomiply]

I am! It's insane! I'm so glad he covered this.

[@Darkwizzrobe]

Yeah I wasn't expecting him to cover such an obscure title.

[@TheTrueBro]

Sonia Belmont >>>>>> That weak belmont from LOI A shame IGA removed her from the canon (instead of rewrite and readjust it) for some weird reason

[@MegaNerdX]

Well, that dude long gone from Konami. So I’m sure they could somehow work her in now

[@Alianger]

bass sounds a bit out of tune?

[@Geese_]

🖤🤍

[@mobilesworking]

bruddy

[@TheFLOMAN76]

No STEREO!!!??? PSSSH! 🤦

[@SHlNOBl3]

i know its pretty much castlevanias universal theme...but im kinda sick of hearin bloody tears

[@Tetris2877]

+J.J. Jackman I think that's more Vampire Killer, but both do come up a WHOLE lot when there's so much good music in Castlevania

[@SHlNOBl3]

Bryan Berg yeah, vampire killer im kinda sick of to. its not somethin im mad about though, cause every cv always has some memorable music.

[@bacsutek]

esto es un desproposito

[@MidnightVCoco]

castlevania THE ADVENTURE AND ITS SEQUEL SUCKED. BUT OF COURSE THIS GAME IS NO LONGER CANON

[@DARX500]

Belmonts revenge is a masterpiece lol

[@irregularhunterj8014]

wow you're such an idiot, Belmont's Revenge is amazing

[@sebastiann.8088]

Absolute trash opinion