This Zelda Song Nearly Gave Me A Migraine! Leave My Ears Alone 9!
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Now, I'm what you'd call a Video Game Music nut, I probably spent more time listening to VG Music than anything else on CZcams.
But other the years, I've encountered many sound effects and songs that nearly made me lose my hearing. Grab your earplugs, and keep your pointer over that volume control, because once again, I'm covering even more of the most obnoxious and downright irritating assaults on the ears that I've encountered.
Anything from horrible music to annoyingly repetitive sound effects may be included. No non-licensed games will be featured. Warning: some of my choices may be opinion-based.
Pokemon: 0:00
Zelda: 4:08
Grandia II: 14:28
Donald Duck: 17:14
Mario Maker 2: 19:31
Super Paper Mario: 22:26
Grandia: 24:33
Age of Empires II: 26:54
Previous episodes:
Episode 1: • Leave My Ears Alone! H...
Episode 2: • Leave My Ears Alone 2!...
Episode 3: • Leave My Ears Alone 3!...
Episode 4: • Leave My Ears Alone 4!...
Episode 5: • Leave My Ears Alone 5!...
Episode 6: • Leave My Ears Alone 6!...
Episode 7: • Leave My Ears Alone 7!...
Episode 8: • Leave My Ears Alone 8!...
/ @whoisthisgit - Hry
Say what you want about the guardia 1 VAs, it’s goddamn hilarious to hear a completely calm man go “Hundred billion degrees, take that!”
I nearly spit out my drink when I heard that line. Grandia's voice acting is bad, but it's entertainingly bad, kind of like the original Deus Ex (even if the corny voice acting does undermine the game's serious tone).
It makes me think of a clip I've seen of early Dynasty Warriors voice acting. "You flaming IDIOT! Take THIIIIS!" "Feel the power of my...MaaAAAaagiiIIIiiic!" (I will go to my grave saying it sounds like an overacting ProtonJon pretending to be vaguely angry about...something.) English voice acting can _truly_ be a treat, even if ironically so at times, it's so often worth giving at least one listen to.
That opening tune brings to mind one line:
"I'd really prefer if you'd be quiet."
I'm Tomba The Mighty
I guess Santa's helper really was a squirrel
@@jankington216 He doesn't actually talk though, though he would never say that in any situations.
This, in my opinion, is the coolest part of the game.
*one* - *two* - *huff* - *three*
Ok...now we got this going on
@@bubblegumxo Great job, guy I don't know.
🐪 - Sure, blame it on your ISP.
gourmet race feels like one of those videogame songs that get way oversaturated to the point of them being annoying like the ducktales moon theme and that one mega man 2 wily song
you could honestly say that for half of mm2’s ost, but that’s mainly because capcom milks that game almost more than atlus milks persona 5(and with none of the effort)
Wait the Ducktales moon NEVER get annoying
@@sacripan4425are you sure about that?, i bet you wouldn't like it if the moon theme was mixed with gourmet race and super paper mario underground into one singular song.
@@libyawillconquerusingdemot3682 depend how it's executed
Donald indeed used to have far louder outrage sounds but they apparently patched it out.
I know whenever my ISP gives me trouble, I blame the camels.
Definitely hard to get over the hump.
25:54 Generally speaking, if one actor/actress sounds bad, it's their fault. If every actor/actress sounds bad, it is very likely to be the voice director's fault.
Gourmet Race is EXTREMELY simple to reproduce. I mean, really, it's just the right tempo, and track itself is just a bunch of trumpets. It's also right kind of catchy. Literally only kirby music track on my playlist is gourmet race.
The Phantom Hourglass segment giving me huge Sonic Chronicles vibes.
I have a Wallpaper Engine background that plays most of the music used in the Chao Gardens between the Sonic Adventure games. Every time I hear the SA2 Chao Lobby music (which is now a lot), I hear the voice sample they use where the guy says "Layin' the wax and spinning the sound" and I HAVE to say it out loud, I can't just hear it, I have to say it. There's an amount of torment yet total satisfaction from it. It's like a curse.
While I will concur that some of Phantom Hour Glass's music was half-baked, you cannot die the ocean theme and the final boss theme-specially Bellum phase 1 were excellent. Even the Ghost Ship theme, when you are hunting it down initially is remarkably atmospheric.
The DS did not have the greatest soundchip. Most of the music was MIDI with some sampling, whereas the first two Gameboy's were wave-synths and one sampling channel. In many cases, MIDI was not used to its fullest capability whereas 8-bit wave-synths were pushed to their limits because the music did not take up much memory.
Most of PH's good tracks are remixes (or rather, demixes) of Wind Waker music.
Fairy's Woods is **PAIN**
BUT you also nailed it right on the head with the image. That is so quintessessentially *fae*.
That thing where remix additions get stuck in your brain happened to me before, and with the same song (SMB's Underground Theme). My dad used to play the song a lot on his piano, and he added coin collection sound effects and the 1-Up jingle at some points to spice up the song. Well, now whenever I hear the SMB Underground theme, I expect to be hearing them!
My dad did the same thing with his Saxophone band remix of the 1-1 theme
The "added part ruining the orginal song for me" has happened to me in Zelda, appropiately enough. Four Swords Adventures extends several of the songs from ALttP, to the point that whenever I hear Hidden Forest/Death Mountain instead of Realm Of The Heavens it just feels incomplete to me. Same for every boss theme. Thanks to ALBW it's also happened again to the same soundtrack as the two games each take the extended songs in different directions.
More "traditional" annoying sound design from Zelda had been in my mind recently as the release of Arzette led me to check up the soundtrack of the CDi trilogy. While two of them hold up, Zelda's Adventure doesn't. This is partly due to it going for environmental noises in the overworld. When you get to a dungeon, you realize that there's a brief time interval before the track actually plays... only then I realize many of them aren't that big of a step up from the overworld. The second dungeon in particular just has horribly distorted circus music that stop being creepy and just ends up irritating. The cherry on top is Ganon's boss theme, which I always try to listen to but apparently the obnoxiously loud electric shock SFX that doesn't let you hear the main melody is actually part of the track itself.
The good thing I like from the Galar one, is because the cheers doesn't overwhelm the song they are just a great part of the music without taking the spotlight, meanwhile in the Paldea one, the cheers just want to become the music... which is not very pleasant to hear.
It sounds like the other way around for me
YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEE I MISSED THIS SERIES
I was someone who didn't like the cheering in Sword and Shield (even with the stadiums, I'm just not into cheering ig) and it coming back in Scarlet & Violet baffled me.
Honestly I like the cheering in SwSh, and I don't blame them for wanting it in SV either. But could they at least get a second cheer? And the pinch part is embedded into the song itself, so I can't even add the Gym Leader theme to my playlist, and I like the theme aside from the part with the cheering.
Ah, whatever. The SV Gym Leader pinch theme is still better than the launch versions of the Elite Four and Champion themes, which were so bad I'm afraid to search for the songs now even though iirc the songs have been fixed
bro, the Fairies' Wood theme almost drove me crazy Dx I felt very disoriented and dizzy and I had a hard time reading the texts, however, when you mentioned that description at 7:32 I genuinely started to like it a little xD
the song is very bouncy, absurd and mischievous that drives you crazy, I guess that's what it feels like to be Elmer Fudd xD
huh, i always enjoyed the scarlet/violet gym leader theme, in spite of how short it was. sure, it wasn't as good or impactful as gen 5's, but it still made the battle feel quite climactic. that being said, i'd like to know whoever decided to make it play after the first pokémon faints in an online battle. i just want to talk to them.
The cheering always made it feel special. Like an event reaching its fever pitch and the audience is all hyped up.
Now I have to wonder what Git thinks about Yume Nikki, specifically its music, considering it falls in the "very short loop" category.
14:54 Good place to put Grenade Man’s boss intro from Mega Man 8, where he blasts out of the background.😮
I think the over abundance of Gourmet Race in Mario Maker is because it is a very simple song with pauses between notes that are easy to recreate....
You may dislike Phantom Hourglass, but...
You know what, I dare not mention his name because the foot controversy left his career in shambles and his friendship in tattered ruins.
Instead, I'll say that what was that sound direction? Why use Animal Crossing walking noises dependent on the surface? Was it easier to use!?
Who chuggaconroy?
@@aneeshsrinivas9088 I'm afraid so. But let's leave it at that.
For real though, what the heck is Phantom Hourglass' excuse??
15:15 Am I losing my mind, or didn’t I remember you already covering Grandia II’s sounds in a different video?
Yeah, I was confused as well. "Didn't he already have a separate video about this?"
That explains my deja vu 😅
Honestly while i know im in the minority here i don't really find the Oracle games' music irritating in the slightest. Its probably because i grew up with the games so I've been desensitized to their repetitive nature. No excuse for Phantom Hourglass though.
I am _so glad_ it's not just me with that goddamned Guardian Acorn music...much as I love the soundtrack of Link's Awakening aside from that.
16:16 I hear the reason why the sound mixing is off is that a lot of games made some parts of it louder so the Dreamcast itself would distort it, but newer consoles actually make it that loud so it doesn't have the same effect.
Also, didn't you talk about something similar in the last Leave My Ears Alone?
It's possible the important item theme is actually a combination of the regular item theme and the first four notes of the Link's Awakening cave theme. Since that theme is also a reoccurring motif along with the Ballad of the Windfish, (It's in most, possibly all the dungeon themes, the miniboss theme, & the compass sound to likely represent the nightmares) the Oracle games may have just taken it out and considered it an LA thing leaving the cave version and the maybe the compass.
finding out you almost always play aoeII with the music off was like heresy to me, but to be fair i didn't give the ost much thought back when i played the game myself. it was only after i started listening to it on the side while doing other things that i truly got to appreciate its music, to the point that i associate aoeII music with minecraft because that's what i listened to while playing on an smp a couple of my friends made
Phantom Hourglass music sounds like it's trying to move up to a melody, but fails each time
You're so right about the tension in the Black and White last Pokémon Theme.
man i never played competitive/online battles so i had no clue the gym leader theme in SV was THAT obnoxious. I knew it was just inferior to SWSH but that was it. Yeesh
At least SV has lots of good bangers to make up for it. Like all themes based around team star, the treasures, and the main villains for examples.
Good music in Scarlet/Violet?
@@QuiltedDusknoir yeah, game has good music
The important item jingle actually IS in the Oracle games: it plays when you get an Essence at the end of a dungeon!
The Fairies Woods theme is super annoying, though, and I swear, it's louder than the other songs in the soundtrack, as if they were trying to annoy EVERYONE around the vicinity!
As for Gourmet Race, it's like those people only know the series through Super Smash Bros, where that song gets a lot of exposure, which doesn't help that it was the song that played for Kirby's stage in the first Smash Bros game! Personally, it also doesn't help that it's not even my favorite song of the Kirby series!
-_-
What if they took out the important item theme to fit in the woods theme?
Grandia 2's battle theme really kicks ass.
3:15: Subtle, Git. :p
My personal "cant unhear it" gripe is the entire second half of the Theme of Tara from Metal Gear 1. In the entire MGS series and every remix in the future, its ALWAYS missing the second and better half of the song. But nah, we get all the action and none of the payoff.
Yup. I avoid getting the acorn and guardian power or whatever they're called
14:33 hey that footage is a little familiar....
Although some of the Gameboy Zelda game dungeon themes were annoying or lazy like Angler tunnel, it was cool that each dungeon had it’s own theme and it made each one have it’s own “personality” I guess. But yeah, that does kind of emphasize just how lacking Phantom Hourglass’s music is. I could hum out any Dungeon from the Oracle games from memory but couldn’t recognize PH music to save my life.
I think Phantom Hourglass does a lot of great things and I'm very fond of it, but it really needed a better, varied soundtrack to make each place stand out.
Banger video as usual
I really like the One Punch Man theme, but the video I usually listen to for it included the sound of Boros kicking Saitama to the moon. Now it feels unfinished whenever I hear the song without the kick
Why does phantom hourglass look like a mobile game for the ds
Well some mobile games do look like DS games(like dragon quest 4,5,6’s remasters for IOS look like the DS games)
10:17 its like a bootleg version of the cave music in a link to the past
Wait till you listen to this song from the ferry, Forest in Oracle of ages
The only thing the DS Zelda games has managed to accomplish is make me want to play ALTTP, Oracles, Awakening, Minish Cap and ALBW. Though i have to give credits to ST for having a good soundtrack and Zelda herself as a follower.
i didn't even know you could do automario songs in mariomaker
aww I'm surprised you didn't include my favorite Rapp voice line: "take that I'll kill ya :/"
I think I remember at some point just turning off PH audio while I played, i enjoyed the combat for its time as it was a fun gimmick, but the audio was lacking, and what made me even play through was to see the story and Linebeck.
Wait....ADVENTURE KUCKLES WAS JANSEN!?! THE MAN BEHIND THE BEST GOOFY MAGE EVER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFAMOUS "oh no"!?!?...
That blew my mind..
About the Gourmet Race soundtrack, I find it annoying to hear because the competitive scene of Smash insist on always going to N64 Dreamland, which is to me more excuse to despise the competitive scene in general.
Actually, that reminds me of something. From the few Smash Ultimate tournament matches I've seen in the Pokemon Stadium levels, Gladion's Theme was always the chosen as the background music. I started to resent it for that reason; are none of the other tracks good enough or something? I know it's petty, but still, that's how I viewed it.
Ah, bad voice acting; a staple of video games from the beginning to the late 90's... And we periodically get throwbacks to it, as well!
Want to know what's even more embarrassing about Phantom Hourglass having only one dungeon theme? The NES games had two each. Yes, even Zelda 1 gave Death Mountain its own music track, as did Zelda 2 with the Great Palace. If they could achieve multiple dungeon themes on the NES, what stopped them from doing the same on the DS?
Spirit Tracks had 3: Tower of Spirits got its own amazing theme; Forest, Snow and Ocean shared a simple, but catchy enough theme; And Fire and Desert got a great theme that emphasized the dangers within.
I know ST came out two years after PH, but PH came out after both Sonic Rush titles (only a month after SRA, but still). How did they eff up the music in PH SO BADLY?!
I thought it was going to be that one ruins track from Skyward Sword
The portable Zeldas are quite the mixed bag when it comes to music. I'm glad I never tried Phantom Hourglass but its sequel Spirit Tracks has some great tunes like the field theme, Byrne's theme and the Demon Train battle. My personal least favorite in the GB games is probably the Crown Dungeon of Oracle of Ages- shrill and samey throughout the annoying maze of switches, locks and keys. And yet, Oracle of Seasons gives us the excellent Dancing Dragon Dungeon, Unicorn's Cave and Ancient Ruins all in a row.
Then there's Link Between Worlds, which deftly remixes the same jingle for 7 different dungeons depending on the theme with my favorites being Dark Palace and Desert Palace:
czcams.com/video/lJmc-yjwZgY/video.html
What about Minish Cap? That game has a great soundtrack!
^-^
I must have been on the same Zelda wavelength, git. I just got done with Oracles duology and replayed PH for the second time in 15 years.
Find the use of the theme in Gen 9 to be bizarre anyway, makes sence in Galar because you fight in stadiums, and its emulating a crowd chanting during a big moment. In Gen 9, most of the gym leaders are in areas that are out in the open, and the two that would be the closest dont make much sense either (Larry's is in a restaurant and Iona in still out in the open, and shes a streamer)
I play Settlers 2 without sound because the music is of the type that gets old before it finishes its first loop and some of the sound effects are pretty horrendous. The settlement very quickly becomes an absolute cacophony of annoying sounds. My least favourite is the pig's "oinking".
Not the Gen 8 slander! Sword and Shield are definitely flawed games, but they're a lot better than Scarlet/Violet, at least imo.
And my god, that Fairies' Woods theme is godawful!
This is a late comment, but I have something similar to the underground theme you mentioned, with the exact same song in fact. But not with the SPM version, instead I always hear the BAHs from the NSMB version.
What the hell, I thought that S&V final pokemon music had the audience edited in when I first heard it.
1:58 Is that another sound effect stacking or are those moans of agony part of the in-game track? I can't hear it in another version I looked up.
Edit: Ah... I assume that's the Yawn sound effect. That makes so much more sense. It still fit in perfectly here, and the clean track still sounds uninteresting.
So what you're saying about Age Of Empires 2 online multiplayer is that you also employ psychological warfare? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Wait a minute. Didn`t you mentioned the eyes already? I could swear you have mentioned them before.....
Crown Dungeon.
Well, about the zelda tunes (old games) probably we are getting irritated due to the high pitches required in order to sound good in a gameboy, now if we are playing them through an emulator it can get easily overwhelming thanks to the speakers nowadays nonetheless I feel sad that we are losing those minor details when we are in dungeons (or even lack of dungeons)
Wait, that's legit the gym leader battle theme? I quit playing pokemon 2 gens ago, so I haven't heard it up until this point. That music felt so... underwhelming. Pokemon has always been known for some hype AF music tracks, and they somehow screwed even THAT up?!?
So glad I quit this shoddy shite when I did! I pray Palworld and others scare them back into competency, or better still, irrelevancy.
S/V's soundtrack isn't great overall, but the Team Star Grunt and Elite Four themes are pretty good
Pokemon's had a history of music quality being all over the place, really. There's some good stuff like Viridian City and Lavender town in Gen I, pretty much everything in Gen II, and over half the music from Gen III, but the limitations of the original Gameboy and later DS really harmed so much of Pokemon's music. Red and Blue you can clearly hear the compositions banging up against the limits of the synth chip and four voice limitation. And Diamond and Pearl can be outright irritating at times, with so many instruments sounding thin and ruining otherwise great compositions like the Gen IV battle theme or the legendaries battle theme. It really contrasts heavily against the few tracks that overcome the thin sound like Eterna Forest, or Stark Mountain. Gen V tries so hard to overcome it, only to really be pushed back down when the improved sound capabilities of the 3DS let Gen VI and VII go nuts.
Never understood, why Phantom Hourglass' soundtrack sounded the way it did, considering the composers behind this game worked on a bunch of other Nintendo series with great soundtracks like Mario Kart, Pokémon Stadium, Splatoon etc. Guess it really might've just been a rush job or something...
Wait why is dedede in smash 64
Are you pulling my leg
I don't mind the SV final Pokémon theme - I much prefer it over the chaotic noodling that is the standard theme (One of the few tracks in SV that I'm not that fond of) - but I do wish it was longer. Then again, I have to admit, I rarely hear more than two loops, because I kinda just...crush the gym leaders. Even their aces don't last long!
I don't do online competitive so I wouldn't have occasion to find out about that issue with the music there...but I probably wouldn't have found out anyway because I'd pick literally any other track over the gym leader track!
I'd still take either one over Fairie Woods, though. Bad 8-bit music is the worst, because that tinny sound GRATES, and when it's off-key, it sounds REALLY off-key.
Wow...never played Phantom Hourglass, and I don't think I missed much if the music is any indication of the effort. The original game felt like it tried harder.
The Gourmet Race thing in SMM2 might not be so bad if they all didn't sound like dog shit. Ye gods.
Your Grandia bit reminds me how much of the 'bad voice acting' problem of that era is specifically English voice acting. Like, Mega Man 8's voice acting is infamous enough that I need not go into detail - but if you listen to the Japanese voices, they actually sound pretty great! I guess maybe they didn't really budget for English VAs or know how to get them or something...maybe didn't budget for English scriptwriting either, because sometimes the scripting is just as terrible (Sonic Adventure says hi!).
the Hobo Phoenix Aproves.
The *what* Phoenix?
@@amethyphoenix Hobo Phoenix Wright From Apollo Justice Ace Attorney,
ALL HAIL, KING OF THE LOSERS!
THE WONDER THE WONDER THE- NOOOOOOOOO
Phantom hourglass' music is comparable to Sonic Chronicles, which is VERY bad.
The camel breaks the fourth wall
Sure, blame it on your ISP
great vid as always, git
3:16 nicely done already subbed tho
"of course no one actually goes to hawaiiQ have you forgot that was the first episode of the series, and of shakenw hawaii's existence, o and about that thing, talk about it with some one you trust
SV Gym Leader Final Pokemon theme is definitely inferior to the SwSh theme but the chanting never bothered me. Although you ain't alone when it comes to Galar's Last Stand being better than Unova's. As for Fairies' Wood: It's definitely annoying like the mission but for some reason, it didn't bother me completely. Also I'm definitely getting Family Guy vibes.
Regardless, irksome is still irksome and I'd definitely lose my fucking mind if I had to listen to those tunes for over 10 minutes.
30:41 I knew I was remembering Lub Lub's dual pronouns correctly.
7:07 no wonder this entry had some of the lowest amount of 2d zelda players (debatable because i just guessed from the dual releases, i don't know if both their numbers were consistent, because Pokemon players didn't all have the good mood for 2 cartridges. and weirdly Capcom just handled the distribution just like Capcom handled Rockstar games releases in Japan at that time ). It is a lengthy game and intro, outro were pretty drawned. But fuck it, why does Nintendo had to do it in a bootleg game bgm composing way?
I never really enjoyed SV's gym theme, it was just kinda there and didn't do much for me; the only time it was good was during Ryme because music/rapping was her whole thing. Also yeah Gourmet Race is severely overused.
To me, I'm a bit surprised you've never covered a Xenoblade game in this series yet, I find it amusing.
I recently finished playing XC2 and hearing everyone constantly talk over one another was both grating and hilarious in equal measure. There's almost no time where someone isn't talking over another unless there's genuine silence. Makes me think of the Grandia 1 part you mentioned where everyone also says their attack voice lines, but imagine all that happening in real time with three different characters and who knows how many enemies that could be fighting you.
"YER DUN!" & "THINK YA CAN TAKE ME?!" x100
I disagree so strongly about the lack of hype in Scarlet and Violet. I didn't even remember the Unova games had a change of music for the last pokemon, while the hype in Scarlet is so strong for me. And well, it has the best OST from all Pokemon games imo (and IS the best Pokemon Game to me, period - it's the only game in the series that made me cry from awe).
I DO confirm the Donald noise was torture though!
I HATED phantom hourglass
As much as I love Phantom Hourglass, I have to admit the music is a bit lacking. On the plus side, Spirit Tracks has a much better OST (although I still prefer the gameplay of PH)
Funny you haven't mentioned the Crown Dungeon. While not as bad as the Fairy Forest, it's certainly annoying and I often mute the GBA when playing that dungeon. Also, remind me, have you mentioned Harmony of Dissonance before? The sound quality is so freaking garbage, it's almost as bad as that awful Buffy game. This is where I learned to sometimes mute the console and play some Heavy Metal. Cradle of Filth is a great companion to that game (or any Castlevania, but most of them have good music), if you like growls.
One of my unpopular opinions is that I actually... kinda like the soundtrack of Harmony of Dissonance. The sound quality itself isn't great, but the melodies at their core are great. I'd argue the sound quality adds to the demented atmosphere of the game in some way.
@@whoisthisgit While I understand your opinion, it still sounds too grating for me.
I always hated the cheering and wolf sounds in pokemon because it aounds like a random stock sound effect rather than what it should be. Lazy af.
Maybe with something that's stale and overdone, don't publish it. Or maybe:
"I know it's overdone, and I apologize. Next time I upload something in this particular field (e.g. music levels in MM2), it *will* be something that's more original." Depending on the field in question (based on how flooded it is), *definitely* make that original thing now; you're basically obligated.
The person who said "but this music is so good" comes across as making flimsy excuses, and they aren't even trying to make up for it.
The poison moth’s lair is by far the worst theme in oracle of seasons
I would really prefer if you'd be quiet.
Genuinely thought the Gourmet Race thing was gonna be about 1 2 Oatmeal :(
Shoutouts to SimpleFlips
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Sword and shield annoying as Zelda dungeon before as pokemon games, huh ?
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