Disturbing Video Game Music 239: Cradle of Time - Tales Of Legendia

It occurred to me that if I were to do 13 songs, then the final number of DVGM on my channel would be 239... I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS! To make it a good even 240, I will uploading one more video tomorrow. So ya'll get an extra song today; one I got a lot of requests for, and for good reason!
Tales Of Legendia is the seventh entry in the Tales Of series, a classic franchise of JRPGs that has been around since the Super Famicom. The Tales Of games help differentiate themselves from other JRPGS with their unique real-time battle system that make battles play almost like a beat em up. Like Final Fantasy the games generally do not take place in the same universe, but have connecting elements in terms of themes, monsters, and summonable beings. Tales Of Legendia would be the last game in the series to use the classic 2D battle system that each previous game had, with the next game (Tales of the Abyss) bringing in a new fully 3D battle system that each game has had since then.
Tales Of Legendia takes place on a world almost entirely covered in water where most of humanity lives on boats. Suddenly an especially huge boat called the Legacy appears, colossal enough to have its own civilization living on it. The heroes then investigate and soon find themselves caught in a war between the goodly goddess of light and the evil goddess of darkness... Yeah, outside of the unique world it is pretty standard JRPG fare, which remains one of the biggest criticisms of this game to this day. The game definitely has its moments though and by far the most well known thing about the game today is its final dungeon: a realm of broken time and distorted landscapes called the Cradle of Time, its music of which is an EXTREMELY distorted version of the main villain's theme. The song itself would be incredibly creepy even among tracks in something like Silent Hill, but the song is just nothing like anything else on Legendia's peppy and epic soundtrack.
It is yet another case of a truly harrowing song being in something mostly light, which makes the song have that much of an impact and helps an otherwise forgettable game stand up alongside Earthbound and Klonoa in terms of surprise creepy.

[@ohnostoltzman2496]

Creep-o-Meter: 1 million/10. To quote JoshScorcher: "Composer Go Shiina took a beautiful song like "Legendary Sorcerer", kidnapped it, beaten up at an abandoned warehouse with a bag over its head, left it there to rot for over a week, then place it in a tire fire only to revive it as a zombie and then got shot dead a million times by the cast of The Walking Dead!" I like it how you're doing two DVGMs in one today, eh.

[@redscyther7725]

For a second I thought "doing the final one already?" As for this music itself, it sounds like an army of tortured souls.......brings me back to The City from Postal........

[@lovevideogames1]

Reboundary already uploaded this as you probably know, but yeah, this is a great choice. I already said it and I'll say it again, this music is very, *very* hard to listen to and that's something I can respect and admire. If I want to compare this music with other songs in RPGs or games with RPG elements, the only songs I can think of that are more or less on the same level would be...Guillotine World (Yume Nikki), Drought (Pokemon Omega Ruby), Dementors! (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Concrete World B and maybe Graveyard World (Yume 2kki), and...that's it I think? Overall, this ''music'' is very creepy...

[@Dracomut]

Indeed, I decided to make an exception because holy cow this song deserves the attention.

[@TalpaTulpa]

Holy shit

[@MacNava]

Thank you so much!!!

[@claytontessmer3566]

Hot damn, this is definitely a freaky song can't wait to use this for Halloween. Can't wait to see what the final DVGM will be tomorrow.

[@AlecMeyer94]

I wonder what that last song is?