You feel like you're going to have a blue time.

November 17, 2015 3:23 AM

[Spoilers ahoy!] Toby Fox's Megalovania, possibly inspired by Castlevania and Live a Live, started life as the soundtrack to his Earthbound Halloween Hack. It then gained major prominence as part of Homestuck's sprawling multi-album soundtrack, featuring in a pivotal Flash page and consequently being associated with a certain cerulean crook due to the incorporation of her theme. Recently its popularity soared due to being used as the boss battle song for a sapphire skeleton in Undertale (though there's some speculation that it really represents the player). Its inclusion in Homestuck and especially Undertale has inspired a lot of fanwork: all three versions layered, two orchestral versions, major key, muzak, mashups with Kana Hanazawa, DMX, Panic! At the Disco, and Eminem, with Super Mario Maker and Plants vs Zombies, on hard drives, music boxes, and violins, metal, 8-bit, acapella, and kazoo covers, even a mindboggling DDR-style game which the creator and his girlfriend played through. Let's dance in the sandstorm!

(also: hOI! I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU!)

posted by divabat (11 comments total)

Heading into a hearing in a few. Thanks for the great tunes!
posted by LegallyBread at 5:05 AM on November 17, 2015

Wow. I appreciate the "high fidelity" obsessive nature of this collection, even if I don't understand it.
posted by clvrmnky at 5:39 AM on November 17, 2015

Special enemy megapost is here to defeat you!
posted by The Devil Tesla at 7:28 AM on November 17, 2015

KAZOOO!
posted by C'est la D.C. at 8:04 AM on November 17, 2015

Whoaaaa, as a big Homestuck and Earthbound fan, I had no idea these were connected. Looks like I'll really have to play Undertale, too. Thanks for the post!
posted by oh.ghoulin at 8:23 AM on November 17, 2015

Undertale = Earthbound + Homestuck, pretty much.
posted by Drexen at 8:25 AM on November 17, 2015 [5 favorites]

oh.ghoulin: Homestuck borrows a LOT from Earthbound, down to the name.
posted by divabat at 8:47 AM on November 17, 2015

If you've ever enjoyed a JRPG (including Pokemon) you should play Undertale.
posted by vogon_poet at 12:25 PM on November 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

Bonetrousle is my jam. Reminds me a little of Hungarian Dance No. 5.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 3:45 PM on November 17, 2015

this should be the link to the cerulan crook's theme!
posted by divabat at 11:12 PM on November 17, 2015

I am considering an Undertale megapost. This is your only warning....
posted by JHarris at 7:59 AM on December 1, 2015 [2 favorites]