Timestamps(for people needing it): 0:26 Bloodborne: Soothing Melody 2:57: Pikmin 2: Submerged Castle 5:08: Silent Hill 3: Innocent Moon 7:44; Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Those Chosen By the Planet 10:21: Ender Lily's Quietest of the Nights: If You Gazed Long into An Abyss 12:52: Rain World Downpour: Not Your Rain 15:36: Super Paper Mario: River twig's Bed 16:21: Lisa the Painful: Blood for S*x 18:33: Earthbound Mother 2: Battle with Gigus I hope you all enjoy this video! If you do, drop a like, consider subscribe to Marco and becoming a member :)
@MarcoMeatball
3 ай бұрын
Aw thank you! I included timestamps! You didn’t have to do all that. I appreciate the support.
@TicTacToeCraft
3 ай бұрын
Minor correction: The Super Paper Mario theme is spelled "River Twygz Bed".
@foggy8298
3 ай бұрын
Another minor correction, it should probably be written "Earthbound / Mother 2" they're alternate titles for the same game
@Maelthorn1337
3 ай бұрын
@@MarcoMeatball you know how people are with reading descriptions. 🙃
@slurplie
3 ай бұрын
I think the FF7 one is from the OG
@CrazyDoodEpicLeaves
3 ай бұрын
"Theres no way mario could have anything scary" and then its just instantly demonic voices LOL
@RavenGamingOverLord
3 ай бұрын
It’s also from a paper Mario game too
@crinklyonion1410
3 ай бұрын
I haven’t seen the video yet but as soon as I read the reply I instantly knew what song it was.
@milleniam
3 ай бұрын
I love River Twygs Bed.
@Halfaway_Shorts
2 ай бұрын
@@milleniam fun fact: it’s also audio for a MIBU phase
@milleniam
2 ай бұрын
@@Halfaway_Shorts - YUM
@ShahroozSmith
3 ай бұрын
Y'know what makes the Super Paper Mario song even worse? It plays when you go down into giant pink river in an Underworld level and there's a bunch of disembodied hands trying to grab and hurt you on the way down.
@lindsaysmith777
3 ай бұрын
It's literally the mario world's version of hell, you and your friend's are killed and sent to hell and the river twigs is such a horrible place since the game makes you dive all the way to the bottom and listen to that shit! Child me hated that it was too scary.
@CharaDreemurr-9999
3 ай бұрын
@@lindsaysmith777 Though, technically, you weren't actually killed, just teleported directly to hell while the person teleporting you made it *look* like he brutally exploded you. ...So Mario went to hell before he died. Guess he took that Super Mario Bros. Super Show drug PSA seriously.
@PiraticOctopus
3 ай бұрын
@heckermcheck8109 Sent his ass to eeby deeby
@piskelo10
3 ай бұрын
WAIT SERIOUSLY???? I thought this was like, unused test audio or something 😭 I literally started tearing up when I heard it and I'm a huge horror fan no less
@ShahroozSmith
3 ай бұрын
@@piskelo10 It's real, and believe it or not.. This is probably the most darkest Mario game in terms of themes and concepts for good reason.
@LadyBrightcynder
3 ай бұрын
Marco's face listening to the Super Paper Mario song is the pure incarnation of "I have made a terrible mistake".
@momsaccount4033
3 ай бұрын
Audio: Those Chosen by the Planet Video: Cloud getting make-up applied by force
@MarcoMeatball
3 ай бұрын
Call it a palate cleanse
@momsaccount4033
3 ай бұрын
@@MarcoMeatball XD
@Berkut_FE
3 ай бұрын
“There’s no way Super Mario is gonna have anything scary.” *Does he know?*
@IvoryMadness.
3 ай бұрын
This also applies to some Kirby music, as well 😅
@alexhoughton3305
3 ай бұрын
On the same video as giving _pikmin_ a 10
@RavenGamingOverLord
3 ай бұрын
He said that about Earthbound too lol
@matteogalbusera1149
3 ай бұрын
Infact, that's PAPER mario, a franchise that come close to kirby when it comes to hidden dark lore in a cute and fun game
@shukuchishikeishuu9540
3 ай бұрын
My response: MIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMIMI
@goli8699
3 ай бұрын
I feel like the more ambience-y pieces tend to be scarier because you end up with little to no structure you can metaphorically attatch yourself to, really emphasising a feeling of helplesness and loneliness. Nothing to put your mind off of things, no one to talk to, no escape out of the situation.
@frozeniota
3 ай бұрын
Someone finally put it into words; congrats...!
@unknowna8056
3 ай бұрын
@@frozeniotaikr!?
@damb1858
3 ай бұрын
me looking at my ps2 red screen of death
@bombomos
3 ай бұрын
For context on the Earthbound song. The beginning is you entering the lair of Guygas. You are walking on basically his intestines. A road of flesh up to his final form. A twisted pained alien fetus. The next phase is you going into battle with him. The next phase is you as the player and the Characters realizing... You are max level and yet you arent doing enough damage. You start loosing. The next stage is your healer character doing the "least" used spell during the game. Pray. You begin to pray for the safety of everyone. For your words to reach everyone around the world to help you fight. Then a cutscene happens that shows everyone youve met on your journey in a spirit bomb fashion, praying to help you defeat gaygus and return safely. Then the last transition is the prayer working. Gaygus is in pain and his form is beginning to twist even more in pain. You can now defeat guygas. What a fight.
@corianteri
3 ай бұрын
gaygus
@REDOYSTERCULT302
3 ай бұрын
Should have listened to porky means business
@Dhalin
3 ай бұрын
Actually, you still can't beat Giygas. The only way to beat Giygas is to continue praying, and each time you use Pray, it shows you a cutscene of someone you met on the journey and their prayer does damage to Giygas, with each one consecutively dealing more and more damage until the very last one deals 65,535 damage and it defeats him. I've tested this with an entirely overpowered group that had stats so high they were glitching (using the infinite Rock Candy glitch) and I tested it at all stages of Pray and Giygas is literally invincible. You can deal a million damage to him at each of the stages of Praying and you will never beat him. It's scripted so that Only Pray works, and you must use it a pre-set number of times. There's literally no point in attacking Giygas once you get to the part you're supposed to Pray.
@emile_jeanne
2 ай бұрын
Paula is not a healer lmao. Ness is the healer/tank of the party Paula is most definitely the glass cannon with deployable shields for physical and psi defense she doesn't even learn healing psi
@josephbartholomew
2 ай бұрын
intestines? more like umbilical cord
@reklov6638
3 ай бұрын
submerged castle is terrifying to me because of the context. you are playing this funny, kid friendly strategy game and then you see a cave, you jump in and you are greeted by....... that. not the normal atmosphere, but an anxiety inducing track that puts you on edge. And for good reason too, since after a certain time..... "something" starts to chase you. A creature that does not fit into the game. Unkillable, and completely different then anything you encountered so far. All that and imagine how players felt when it all happened again in Pikmin 4. Awesome moment. They actually remixed that track in Pikmin 4, and somehow made it even scarier then the original. Take a listen if you don't believe me.
@Redwolf2495
3 ай бұрын
One thing that makes "The Soothing Hymn" from Bloodborne even scarier is that the vast majority of areas in the game don't have any background music. Then THAT starts playing when you get to the Upper Cathedral Ward.
@gergodavid4882
3 ай бұрын
Hail the Nightmare is scarier imo. Same concept, that other areas have no music but after you realise that it's not background music it's way creepier.
@etrusco2898
2 ай бұрын
The werewolves falling from the chandeliers don't help either.
@blackbloom8552
2 ай бұрын
The title also creates discomfort through the implications that the song is meant to be soothing and that the only reason it doesnt sound as such is that it isnt meant for you. Contribute to the whole otherworldly vibe of the great one in that even what they find comforting is alien to us.
@samlikeswatchinganime9531
3 ай бұрын
the context of the ender lilies track is so much more haunting and tragic deep within this land lies the priestess, being held together by the very blight that cursed the land, these are her gasps for air as she tries to contain it.
@Joetheknight406
3 ай бұрын
thanks, i hate it
@areszeudion5153
3 ай бұрын
So, the theme was more of one's struggle to live amidst the weight of responsibility that suffocates her? Yikes, and damn. I thought it was panic attack.
@uncroppedsoop
3 ай бұрын
I don't know much about the game but that screams Hollow Knight to me with Marco calling it a metroidvania
@Mantosasto
3 ай бұрын
@@uncroppedsoop If you like metroidvanias try Ender Lilies. It's one of the solid ones.
@mt2r-music
3 ай бұрын
It’s more of a sound effect but ”god is coming“ from Squirrel Stapler is really scary. And talking about sound design in general I can’t think of a horror game with better sound design than Darkwood. Out of all the games I’ve ever played, including non-horror games, this is some of the best of the best.
@fruityplumguy6532
3 ай бұрын
Darkwood is probably the only game that has me jumping because I heart a twig snap.
@Karanthaneos
3 ай бұрын
I think the sense of disorientation that it causes you when you don't really know what the heck are you supposed to do, and the voices keep getting louder. It's a masterful use of suspense, and the reveal is simple yet effective and brilliant
@mt2r-music
3 ай бұрын
@@fruityplumguy6532 100%
@mt2r-music
3 ай бұрын
@@Karanthaneos going from scared and confused to brave and understanding the story is what makes it so amazing. Especially because everything comes from you as the player instead of cutscenes or NPCs telling you what’s going on. You connect the dots yourself. You learn how to protect yourself. You get curios what happened to that world and in the end witness the big finale with one of the coolest stories I’ve ever seen in a video game.
@uncroppedsoop
3 ай бұрын
@@fruityplumguy6532 similar energy to acorns falling in voices of the void
@bomb4r719
3 ай бұрын
Oh that mario track is a classic, that's been all over the internet as a spooky backing track The game it comes from Super Paper Mario Is a surprisingly dark game with some very mature themes And for that reason it's one of my favourite Mario games
@TicTacToeCraft
3 ай бұрын
I found it funny how he showed Sticker Star gameplay during the SPM segment. It feels like unintentional disrespect toward Super Paper Mario fans, since Sticker Star lacks an engaging story and instead has a basic New Soup-like plot.
@maximilianodiaz4151
3 ай бұрын
I got jumpscared harder by the Sticker Star gameplay than by the song
@Khann_2102
3 ай бұрын
@@maximilianodiaz4151 Same 😂
@RavenGamingOverLord
3 ай бұрын
@@maximilianodiaz4151 Paper Mario fans when they see Sticker Star:
@CharaDreemurr-9999
3 ай бұрын
@@TicTacToeCraft Tbh, I thought it was a dig at Sticker Star at first. Like, Sticker Star is the only Paper Mario game comparable to being pulled deep into the water and drowned by the spirits of the damned inside the Mario world's equivalent of hell.
@AHylianWarrior
3 ай бұрын
I always love when "cartoon style" games have really scary and unsettling moments like those because like with a horror game it's expected, not from a game about a wahoo Italian man made of paper that jumps and hits things with a hammer
@jamesproctor4568
2 ай бұрын
No one expects the turns Super Paper Mario throws.
@rainpooper7088
2 ай бұрын
@jamesproctor4568 Mr L is the Spanish inquisition confirmed, finally his identity is reveal
@joshshrum2764
2 ай бұрын
The whole shadow queen moment is horrifying.
@chosentoaster6626
3 ай бұрын
I absolutely loved this video and I really do hope you make a follow-up to this video. Some themes I'd recommend are Drought- pokemon Ruby Shadow temple- zelda ocarina of time Ripple star catacombs- Kirby 64 Just Monika- Doki Doki Literature club The place- Earthbound Barracks settlement- Yume Nikki
@dashieofthebeards2613
3 ай бұрын
Soothing hymn started right as i found out my cat had a hairball 10/10 perfect timing for my reaction
@MarcoMeatball
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@dashieofthebeards2613
3 ай бұрын
@MarcoMeatball oh, hey, btw I plan on donating to your patreon when I'm not broke If you do another horror music video can you please cover fallow?
@cojack1118
3 ай бұрын
Ah, yes. Super Paper Mario. Rated E for "Every single kid who played this game is traumatized"
@moister3727
2 ай бұрын
The song doesn't play for too long since it's only the underwater section. Out of context it is scary, on context is a bit less knowing things like Mimi or that creepy otaku lizard exist. IDK Super Paper Mario is weird
@rainpooper7088
2 ай бұрын
@moister3727 Don't look up how Mario beat the creepy otaku lizard in the official Super Mario-kun manga, you will never recover mentally.
@slayeroffurries1115
3 ай бұрын
I hope we can get Fear & Hunger in a future sequel of this video. Miro is pretty ingenious when it comes to soundtracks
@tulpaart8462
3 ай бұрын
Yess get some of that Pulse& Anxiety in here
@ratoftoska7497
3 ай бұрын
One could easily make a video like this with only FHunger 1&2 music ― such a unique soundtrack.
@SinYingWong
3 ай бұрын
Same, interested to hear Marco's thoughts on Funger soundtrack! 🙏
@Jaund1ce_j3an
3 ай бұрын
Gotta have Relentless in here. Shits a banger frfr
@nutbutterbruh4405
3 ай бұрын
Would absolutely love to see some funger
@PowerfulPine
3 ай бұрын
lol it's funny the way the Earthbound music is structured you basically almost went through the final boss yourself. The final boss has 4 or 5 phases to the battle, and the uploader of the video you watched took the music that plays each phase that normally loops until you beat each phase and strung it into a complete piece.
@francjirachi
3 ай бұрын
Some context for the earthbound song: (vague spoilers version): The pleasing song that plays during the middle is part of the fight, so it's more of a cutscene playing and it then changes to the extra cursed song, so it's not just done for a "fuck you" (heavy spoilers version): the mechanical sounds are both giygas being somewhat mechanical and your characters being in robot bodies since they had to surgically remove their souls and place them there to travel back in time for the final fight (organic matter can't travel in time) and the pleasant melody: you find out that nothing is effective against giygas, and the only option left is praying, eventually those prayers reach everyone you've helped along the way and they basically send you their energy, in that moment is when the song plays, and it's actually a song you've been collecting through the entire game (which also does some crazy stuff with the protagonist), also a reference to the first mother game where you also collect a song that is actually the lullyby the final boss's (adoptive) mother sang to him as a baby (the boss is the same as the one in earthbound)
@joshshrum2764
2 ай бұрын
Yeah it being stitched together took the context out.
@frozeniota
3 ай бұрын
Marco: "This isn't too bad-" The wondrous and terrifying presence that is the Mother series: "The f**k you say?!"
@aldoenriquez6294
3 ай бұрын
Yooooo, holy shit, we get some Lisa the Painful love! I'd definitely recommend the radio theme from Half Life 2.
@DaJokur
3 ай бұрын
Oh man the half life 2 radio theme still scares me to this day
@paulgrotebeverborg1119
3 ай бұрын
If you do a part 2, i suggest Not Safe from OFF Also, the Giygas theme is not one single piece, it's a medley of all the different phases, the music changes the farther you progress
@KeonKetihw
2 ай бұрын
I’d wanna add Endless Hallway to the OFF recommendation, a different kind of fear OFF is great at being uncomfortable
@paulgrotebeverborg1119
2 ай бұрын
@@KeonKetihw it is!
@amandamakin1542
3 ай бұрын
The scary Super Paper Mario music part gets better when you realise the footage for Paper Mario he used is Sticker Star. That is TERRIFYING!
@rainpooper7088
2 ай бұрын
Honestly, the fact that it not only wasn't the right game but *Sticker Star* of all games cracked me up honestly.
@Roiadas
3 ай бұрын
The xylophone part of the Giygas theme isn't supposed to be scary. It's the song called the 8 melodies which in the context of the fight is acting sort of as a beacon of hope.
@mikedacoolnerd788
2 ай бұрын
The Theme is structured ingeniously honestly, especially in context with the game. The parts leading up to 8 Melodies embodies a feeling of unease and hoplessness from the character's POV. 8 Melodies itself like you said acts as a beacon of hope; it also conveys a sort of innocence that in context with the fight makes Giygas remember their "humanity". (The song has such an impact on Giygas because while the 8 melodies in Earthbound and Mother 1 are different, they still represent similar things; nostalgia and innocence. All this to say the 8 Melodies in Mother 1 is a lullaby that Giygas's adopted Mom used to sing to them when they were little) This makes them deeply unstable. The song afterwards becomes much more chaotic as it is now supposed to represent Giygas's state of being.
@Maelthorn1337
3 ай бұрын
5:31 GOD. It was such a relief hearing the piano come in.
@y_rnd
3 ай бұрын
"Silent Heaven" from Silent Hill 2 might take the spot for me. I will never forget that room.
@orthoceras
3 ай бұрын
i agree. that song is unbelievably poignant and terrifying
@maggie6152
3 ай бұрын
Yuuuuup. Screw that clock sound.
@travsvertkirktNull
3 ай бұрын
Great vid! Really surprised to not see the actual scariest track in the Silent Hill series, Silent Heaven in Silent Hill 2
@thegreatgonzales6813
3 ай бұрын
Great video as usual man! If you're interested in doing a part two, I recommend some of the following: - "The Cradle of Time" - Tales of Legendia (This one is a must) - "My Heaven" - Silent Hill - "Silent Heaven" - Silent Hill 2 - "The Place" (The Cave of the Past) - Earthbound/Mother 2 - "It's Chimera Research" - Mother 3 - "Ikana Valley" - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - "Scared" - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - "Legend of Hyrule" - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - "Witch" - Left 4 Dead - "Tomb of the Ancients" - Rayman 2 - "Lock Down" - The Escapists - "Misty Menace" - Donkey Kong Country - "RIP Suites (Suspense)" - Luigi's Mansion 3 - "Sublimity" - Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - "Season of Despair" - New Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - "Environmental Sound (Silence 2)" - Metroid Fusion - "Haunted Tunnels" - Metro 2033 - "What's That Sound" - Metro 2033 - "Chamber Below" - Skullgirls
@Teuwufel
3 ай бұрын
14:28 It sounds to me like dying or decay. Like lifting a huge stone and seeing a dead rat that died long ago. Something that souldn't be seen. It sounds like an antithesis to life, which makes it extremely uncomfortable and scary.
@uncroppedsoop
3 ай бұрын
more than just an antithesis to life, to me, it feels like everything _but_ life. unnatural constructs, decay and ruin, the passing indifferent weather, so on
@David111IsHere
2 ай бұрын
If you guys haven't played Rain World I will be impressed because this is pretty spot on.
@Zanodia
3 ай бұрын
I am suprised to see that neither Fear & Hunger or Fear & Hunger 2 made it on this list. Another on that came to mind was Uboa from Yume Nikki although that also needs the visual context I think.
@crazykim
3 ай бұрын
Can't help but noticing Khezu's theme from Monster Hunter isn't on here, that one really gets me.
@OuterWildin
3 ай бұрын
It was there, it was just playing in the background between each song.
@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon
2 ай бұрын
Lol
@pixelator5312
3 ай бұрын
for a potential future video, here are my personal picks: - "Fade" from OMORI, despite being only a three second loop, makes me want to leave my skin - if you want an actual full-length song from OMORI, try "Acrophobia", "56-12-2", or "Something" - an unnamed song from Deltarune, going by "flashback_excerpt" in the game files; I'd call this one more haunting than flat-out scary, but I'll still count it
@astralbirthvoid02
3 ай бұрын
Or Omori-Alter.
@CGFillertext
2 ай бұрын
Lavender Town, because I’d like to hear him break down how it works
@ebrardogan4852
2 ай бұрын
OMGH YESSSS I HOPE HE LISTENS TO OMORI SONGSSS
@joshshrum2764
2 ай бұрын
Deal gone wrong is creepy though.
@uncroppedsoop
3 ай бұрын
one I never see many people talking about is Infected Crossroads from Hollow Knight. its execution in the context of the game, overriding a previously familiar, relatively safe starting area, and seeing how badly some of the enemies are suffering, really adds to the effect
@nedf538
3 ай бұрын
Lots of ambient/grotesque songs here... One underrated game that has outstanding horror music is Evil Tonight, I'd recommend reacting to its academy floor tracks and the Bloodthirst theme!
@dnbfkrldkhddkdjgeejnfkfkp2105
3 ай бұрын
ONG yessss especially bloodthirst coming in when your minding your business and a monster suddenly jumps through the window right next to you and the violins give you CHILLS
@biddybugs2145
3 ай бұрын
your reaction to river twygz was priceless i'm so happy it got on there. Fun Fact in case you didn't get it, "River Twygz" is a pun on "River Styx"! Fun! oh, and for another reccomendation from Super Paper Mario, I find "World Of Nothing" even scarier. I have no clue how I beat this game as a kid
@matthewkelly5480
3 ай бұрын
Skipping over “Hail the Nightmare” from bloodborne is crazy! Definitely give that a shot if you make a part 2
@slayeroffurries1115
3 ай бұрын
isn't this the song that plays in the area that the Bagman sends you to when he kidnaps you? If it is then I agree, that whole segment of the game is horrifying because of the soundtrack
@inspectorwhoreacts
3 ай бұрын
100% hearing that theme after ending up somewhere unknown. It was daylight outside for me and I was still scared to explore where I was, also realize Bloodborne doesn't have ambient music til that point.
@私はクソな中国人です
2 ай бұрын
Yeah I love that track. When the male chorus comes in I always have to change my pants and take a shower
@yume372
3 ай бұрын
Oh my god, I LOVE the Ender Lilies soundtrack! It's such a great game in general. But "if you gaze long into an abyss" is so uncomfortable to listen to, that I actually turned off the sound when I heard it for the first time. xD
@shaggyrogers8869
3 ай бұрын
Which will mean more mili
@AT7outof10
3 ай бұрын
There is SO MUCH more creepy music from games, entire channels have made playlists featuring hundreds of songs! Some I'd wanna see you react to include: Shadow Man "Playroom", White Camber "Corridor", Baten Kaitos "Deterioration", and King's Field IV "Ancient City Level 3" (altho you'd have to look for a high quality version to get the full experience.)
@aisliin
3 ай бұрын
please make more of these reacts !! loved this series, just bought ender lilies thanks for the rec :3
@nemesis6057
3 ай бұрын
There's actually a sequel on the works named Ender Magnolia btw. It's available in early access for now and should come out this year
@WhoTookSaltyCabbage
2 ай бұрын
If you do another video like this, I have some suggestions: - Ripple Star Catacombs (Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards) - Eternal Echo of the Thrilling Tour-our-our (Kirby and the Forgotten Land) - Chimera Lab Chaos (Mother 3) - Battle Against the Masked Man (Mother 3) - Ultra Ruins (Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon) - z30huri2ba0tt12le1110 (Xenoblade Chronicles X) (yes, that is the name of it) - Vanessa Wants to Play (A Hat in Time)
@Dimumouto
3 ай бұрын
Here's one for the next time you do one of these! "Kyouki he no Kairou (Corridor to Insanity)" from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novel OST. Even out of context, it definitely feels unnerving, like your mind is not your own. And *in* context, especially after things get revealed, it makes it that much more haunting.
@Venomdrad
3 ай бұрын
Scariest video game music? I got a few I’d recommend. Ordered by song and game title: Playrooms - Shadowman Chess World - Yume 2kki Werewolf - The Path The Sewer Passage - Silent Hill Breakdown (Rotted Foul) - Doom 64 Lycan II - Resident Evil Village Cradle of Time - Tales of Legendia Honestly these songs are some of freakiest stuff I’ve heard in general.
@Carbonic123
3 ай бұрын
Do More of these! This was a very fun format for a video! Similar videos focused videos on other categories such as inspiring, sad or, even jovial songs for games would be very interesting to also see in my opinion. Great video! Wish you the best
@borna53200
3 ай бұрын
Hollow knight's Deepnest or anything from Signalis not being on the list is unfortunate, but a great sellection nontheless.
@miuindminor
3 ай бұрын
the scariest part of deepnest is zote being savable.
@bigzero7720
3 ай бұрын
While we're at Hollow Knight, then also "Mage under Glass".
@PiraticOctopus
3 ай бұрын
The Nosk fight music is pretty darn good too
@eduardotorres6108
3 ай бұрын
More of this! Then when October comes marathon of horror games
@david_8916
3 ай бұрын
How did OG Lavender Town not get in here? Impossible
@TopOfAllWorlds
3 ай бұрын
It's not really that scary at all
@Onavi1
3 ай бұрын
@@TopOfAllWorlds Yeah i´d say the Unown Radio Frequency deserves that spot in Pokémon OST but then again it isn´t that much of a "musical piece" but Arceus Battle theme in Legends Arceus absolutley deserved to be here
@Ennello
3 ай бұрын
Lavender town is quite soothing tbh
@thegreatgonzales6813
3 ай бұрын
Always found it to be more somber and depressing than scary. Though the original does have that almost out of tune creepiness to it. The Old Chateau on the other hand...
@destinygalearies7382
3 ай бұрын
bc its "scariness" is entirely carried by bogus creepypastas making up obviously fake stuff about kids killing themselves for edgy horror points
@shadowraith10
3 ай бұрын
I love hearing your takes on these songs, A majority of these I've played the games and listened to these in game... Each one holds a place in my heart. Even if they're unnerving as all hell when hearing them.
@zunikanu1087
3 ай бұрын
props to whoever suggested If You Gaze Long Into an Abyss, Ender Lilies is more of a tragic game than scary but the breaths actually made me bail out of the area for a bit. Also Marco if you haven't seen the Giygas fight you should check out a video of it. I couldn't imagine having handled that as a kid.
@yeahman6907
3 ай бұрын
Surprised “Not Safe-OFF” wasn’t mentioned. That’s one of those few tracks that unsettled me the first time I heard it. Of course it’s definitely far scarier with context as most of these are
@Game_InSky
3 ай бұрын
Super Paper Mario probably also has the second scariest mario game song with "World of Nothing". The apropriately titled soundtrack to a post-genocide world.
@TicTacToeCraft
3 ай бұрын
I agree. I would have suggested it alongside River Twygz Bed, but I unfortunately forgot the name.
@johngoldfield6602
2 ай бұрын
tbh I thought the cave of the past (The Area you are in before entering Giygas' cave) sounds alot more terrifying it gives that unnerving feeling that you're in a place that is so ancient it compliments the very bleak setting empty, colorless gray an unknown beginning of the world.
@jacksonwilloughby7625
3 ай бұрын
The droning in Not Your Rain is just a tornado siren. Specifically something like the Modulator MOD-2008 Alternate Wail. There is a clip on YT for these alternating wails.
@AdalHRivera
3 ай бұрын
Man, my childhood on KZitem must have been 90% me binging entire channels and series consisting of "Most Disturbing Music from Non-Horror Videogames". It's just so surprising that back then and even to this day that's an actual soundtrack category on its own.
@DaDoppen
3 ай бұрын
I'm surprised the theme from the Shadow Temple/Bottom of the Well in Ocarina of Time isn't on here, the song alone kept me from progressing for months until I finally just muted the TV.
@mitchable99
2 ай бұрын
One thing ive noticed with sound tracks like pikman and games of similar graphics is that you underestimate the horror that can be weaved into these songs, games like pikman give you the sense of security for how friendly it is until it goes 11 in horror a moment later.
@Dhalin
3 ай бұрын
The visuals of the Giygas fight really help sell the whole thing, just listening to the music you lose a bit of the context. And also some of the text that appears, lines like "You cannot perceive the nature of Giygas's attack!" and IIRC, it even will sometimes randomly cause random status effects on your characters. As the fight goes on, the background gets more and more twisted and distorted to match the distorted noise in the music. The "beautiful kids music" you hear is a cutscene that plays in the middle of the battle and is not part of the battle itself.
@Pikacat98
3 ай бұрын
Something that is really important to these tracks (and any track) is also the visual side of things, like with submerged castle you're in a dank and dark cave with creatures out of this world, then out of nowhere a giant humanoid creature with two large rollers drops from the sky and you are told that there is no way to kill it, you have no choice but to run, lest you get crushed by the thing. For me that's what makes the submerged castle so frightening, knowing that you gotta get to the next floor as quickly as possible or it'll appear and make your life hell. I would say you could put the relevant footage of these levels/parts alongside the music so you can get the full effect of each track but what you're doing now still works well as it lets you fully focus on the music itself. Also I know a bunch of disturbing vgm songs I can suggest for a part two to this video, just let me know and I can type them all out. : D
@TheHipOneMusic
3 ай бұрын
If you do another one of these, I would totally recommend "Dark Passage" from the Outer Wilds DLC. It's like every scary part of the base game multiplied by 10
@NeoChampion
3 ай бұрын
came here to comment this exact one
@sarcastic_alpaca
3 ай бұрын
It’s good to see you to hear horror music in games and I hope you listen to more in the future as there’s a lot of games both indie and triple a that have amazing music. It’s an often under appreciated and often overlooked genre that its sound is often ignored for other pieces but deserves more ears.
@kaijukingofthemonsters1075
3 ай бұрын
Another song I'd recommend is gonna be Nameless Chaos from Lies of P, that shit had me panicking for the boss fight
@Palochii
3 ай бұрын
If you ever do another one I recommend Trivia Murder Party - Final Round ! I think most spooky songs try to make you feel like hiding, that one makes you feel like running away with the song evolving along with the state of the game.
@DearAnem0ia
3 ай бұрын
I don't think Innocent Moon was the best pick for Silent Hill, it starts really strong but becomes more melancholic as the piano kicks in. I personally think Black Fairy is the most unsettling song from any of the games, it never fails to give me the chills.
@aquiler3959
2 ай бұрын
Was thinking the same thing, why pick innocent moon for silent hill. Black Fairy is way more uncomfortable
@aquiler3959
2 ай бұрын
Or silent Heaven
@AlessaParker
2 ай бұрын
or "Don't Cry" or "I'll kill you" from the first SH soundtrack
@jodyposey9558
20 күн бұрын
@@aquiler3959Or even My Heaven
@methanolfortheblind
3 ай бұрын
Jumping in to re-recommend "Plague Awake Here" from Pathologic 2 if you ever want to do a video like this again. It absolutely makes my skin crawl and it achieves that effect with such a clever use of vocals.
@shadixyt
2 ай бұрын
The Pikmin 2 Submerged Castle is even worse in game cause you have this ghostly entity that is chasing you on giant stone rolling pins while thats playing.
@zephytime8196
3 ай бұрын
You could do an entire one of these about Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass. What impresses me about it is the sheer variety of horror flavors it manages to keep relatively distinct between each track.
@xTunafishx
3 ай бұрын
there's only 1 scary video game music, and that's the Sonic drowning music...
@RF-Ataraxia
3 ай бұрын
Truly the scariest music to ever music
@simpa94
3 ай бұрын
Scary =/= stressful
@xTunafishx
3 ай бұрын
@@simpa94 stress is seeing 'that town' in your restless dreams. Fear is watching Tails steal your bubble before you die
@legendsdontdie466
3 ай бұрын
For sure not the only one, but definitely the most infamous one for the trauma 😭
@chair_dib
2 ай бұрын
What about the us boss theme from cd?
@omasta5500
2 ай бұрын
As someone who loves video game music AND is a horror enjoyer, I LOVE whenever people listen to the scarier side of game OSTs. Loved this video! Always fun seeing someone listen to tracks like River Twygz Bed for the first time! If you do ever decide to listen to more, I’m gonna throw a request in for “The World of Drawcia” from Kirby Canvas Curse. It’s one of the scariest songs I’ve heard from a game, you’ll just have to trust me :)
@Blitzkava
3 ай бұрын
I know it's cliche, but it would be great to hear your thoughts on some Pokémon spooky music. Things like the Old Chateau from Gen 4, the Strange House from Gen 5 or the always classic Lavender Town from Gen 1.
@emile_jeanne
2 ай бұрын
It's very funny he interpreted the xylophone from the gyigas fight as a creepy part as well while it's supposed to be giving you hope as it's the song made from the melodies you've been connecting throughout the whole game
@BiyikFrostDiaz
3 ай бұрын
I wonder how Marco would react to "Eternal echo of thrilling tour our our" from Kirby and the forgotten land I can no longer here the words "and here we are" the same
@E0nW0lf
Ай бұрын
LOL your reaction to the melodic music in the Gigas battle ost jumping into absolute chaos is golden.
@OvenFreshBread
3 ай бұрын
I was sure if there was Bloodborne music it would be "Hail the Nightmare". I hope you'll rank that in the next video. And another suggestion from one of my favorite video games: the "Regenerator" theme from Resident Evil 4 (preferably from the original, though the remake version is also very good).
@macaronisaladd
3 ай бұрын
Some suggestions if you plan to make a part two: Space Ocean - Half life Distorted Trumpets - Half Life 2 Underground Labs - Resident Evil 2 (1998) Black Fairy - Silent Hill 2 Old Chateau - Pokemon Pearl & Diamond Horror music - Roblox
@gave8657
3 ай бұрын
To this day i still think that My Heaven from Silent Hill 1 is the most terrifying track in a video game
@RyanB0415
2 ай бұрын
I’m newer to watching your content but I love these reaction videos. Your reactions are so animated. If ever do a scary list like this again I’d highly recommend the tracks “The Mother” from Dragon Age Awakening and “Lavender Town” from Pokemon Red and Blue
@drkarate5219
3 ай бұрын
I thought the sudden gasps in the ender lilies song was Marco till he started reacting to them, god damn that song is ROUGH to listen to
@filzargeynep3536
3 ай бұрын
The Metroid franchise has a good record of scary and unsettling tracks. I'm thinking of : Super Metroid - Space Pirate Statue Chamber Metroid Prime 3 - Skytown Metroid Xenoresearch Area Metroid Prime 3 - GFS Valhalla Metroid Prime 3 - GFS Valhalla Depth
@thearkhamnerd8393
3 ай бұрын
One that always gets me is “ The Basement of Police Station “ from resident evil 2 by the Capcom sound team
@blackbird7781
3 ай бұрын
Personally I found it not that scary. The Regenerador theme from og RE4 is really scary though
@24Kitsune
2 ай бұрын
Bro you literally sent me with that Harvest Moon back track!!! The Nostalgia was so thick! These videos are SO entertaining, thanks for making em! Little Nightmares chasing tracks will forever send me into panic, just 100%
@limb-o7180
3 ай бұрын
How did SH1's My Heaven not get into the list?? hopefully it gets featured if MArco ever does a part 2 of this
@AdalHRivera
3 ай бұрын
Love how this particular reaction is riddled with "Famous Last Words" moments
@dylanebbinge1166
3 ай бұрын
If you ever make another part you should include “N’s Room (Pokemon Black 2/White 2)”
@FelipeSantos-wu1uf
3 ай бұрын
Love your channel man, just found a few days ago, smazing
@MarcoMeatball
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much
@Neppiko
3 ай бұрын
Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame would have been my pick it's my favorite boss theme because it's the best combination of terror and tension I've found in music form whilst maintaining a main melody instead of relying on spooky noises and dissonant droning
@SKdaGamer
3 ай бұрын
2:57 Submerged Castle getting shown caught me so off guard, it's so rare to see Pikmin being talked about sometimes It's such an unsettling theme and it's only ever played in one dungeon in the whole game, where there is a constant looming threat of a boss that is essentially a water ghost on stone rollers that insta-kill your Pikmin, that you cannot beat until the final floor of the dungeon. It's also very darkly lit, has traps left right and centre, and already has such a scary vibe about it, and the music just elevates that. It's also the only dungeon with an exit geyser on the first floor of it. Most people's first experience with this upon entering is seeing the geyser, the fire traps (the game only lets you in with Blue Pikmin which are immune to water only), and hearing the terrifying music, and going 'I made a mistake entering here'
@Painocus
3 ай бұрын
-Patreons- We were really going easy on him by choosing Innocent Moon for him for Silent Hill over something like My Heaven, Prayer, Ain't Gonna Rain, Don't Cry, Blank Fairy, Terror in the Depths of the Fog or even Room of Angel, huh? Also no Fatal Frame/(Project) Zero or Postal 1?
@MarcoMeatball
3 ай бұрын
This wasn’t Patreon
@Painocus
3 ай бұрын
@@MarcoMeatball Oh, my bad. Was it in the community tab? I must have missed it somehow.
@MarcoMeatball
3 ай бұрын
@@Painocus yup! About three weeks ago :)
@FSAPOJake
2 ай бұрын
Gotta love how River Twygz Bed is the most-viewed part of the video. And for good reasons.
@domonkosrevay9423
3 ай бұрын
Rain world: downpour is amazing and the ost should definitely be listened to in context. Imo its an underrated masterpiece
@glitch263
3 ай бұрын
this!! not your rain plays in the most scary area in the game in general, imo. and the heartbeat ambient there amplifies the song's effect
@godalmightydonut
3 ай бұрын
great video- lots of cool music in this one. i hope if you return to this concept you get the chance to check out the first silent hill game's ost, especially "in heaven"- the first game has more of an industrial sense in its soundtrack compared to other entries which, to me, always made its soundtrack extra eerie
@lukefish52
3 ай бұрын
Another good video!
@MarcoMeatball
3 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@riemaennchen
3 ай бұрын
If this video ever gets sequel I would nominate "Wandering Spirits" from Terranigma. That whole sequence scared the crap out of me as kid, and the music was big part of it. For context: This plays in a Desert Town which seems perfectly normal the first time you enter. But when you go to sleep and wake a after a while everyone in the town is dead.
@foggy8298
3 ай бұрын
If you want another song from a series you think wouldn’t be scary, try World of Drawcia from Kirby Canvas Curse! Also, Giygas’s theme combined with the story context and the atmosphere and that fucking dialogue result in Giygas being the scariest final boss in any video game ever and it’s not even that much of a debate. The series director of Mother mentioned how Giygas in Mother 2 was meant to be a representation of his own childhood trauma (hence the Giygas dialogue taken straight from a r*pe and murder scene in a horror movie he walked in on as a child), as well as a controlled space where kids could face horror in a game themselves
@Dimumouto
3 ай бұрын
Correction, it wasn't a rape/murder scene, just he thought it was one. It was the movie "The Polceman and the Disfigured Woman" or something along those lines, and the scene in particular was a woman being already dead IIRC.
@foggy8298
3 ай бұрын
@@Dimumouto You realize the dialogue came from the woman right 😭 dead people can’t talk. Y’all really be here trying to correct comments off of misremembered trivia It wasn’t *explicitly* an assault, it was just a murder, but watch the scene, the subtext is obvious. Or just play Earthbound and read the Giygas dialogue lol, It was meant to emulate that. Itoi also thought it was an assault scene as a child
@Dimumouto
3 ай бұрын
@@foggy8298 My guy, you got it wrong in the first place. No need to be rude because of someone trying to correct you. And I have played Earthbound, about a decade ago.
@foggy8298
3 ай бұрын
@@Dimumouto Wasn't trying to be rude, sorry, just pointing out its probably wrong to try to correct people on trivia you don't remember fully yourself
@specs9818
3 ай бұрын
PLEASE make this into a series
@OuterWildin
3 ай бұрын
World of Drawcia from Kirby is scary. The music is barely music, the background is hard to comprehend, there are no enemies, just paintings that stare at you and occasionally giggle. The name isn’t even a pun like all the other worlds. Just a world made just how Drawcia wants it. An empty, twisted world where no one but she dwells.
@Sirenhunter5
2 ай бұрын
Hi! Don’t know if you take requests but I do recommend “Silent Heaven” in Silent Hill 2. Used to play that all the time whenever my players would venture out into zombie infested areas of a city, in dnd.
@zarwd3005
3 ай бұрын
The creepiest video game music I have ever heard is Drakengard 1 ending b. Even now, I still remember it.
@kaankaraca2001
3 ай бұрын
Undertale’s Genocide ending screen, “But Nobody Came” and also Gaster’s theme are pretty damn chilling too.
@ModernAegis
3 ай бұрын
Honestly, I think World of Nothing is way scarier than River Twiggz Bed. Also, Giygas’ theme is a chill bop to me and I can’t explain why.
@Snowie1940
2 ай бұрын
Oh man, this was a treat, and I'd absolutely love to see another video like this. There's just such a breadth of video game tracks out there that hit that sweet spot of unease and disturbing, igniting the imagination. Doom 64's OST did it for me, where every single track I can listen to recreationally now, but as a kid it gave me this disturbing feeling of being lost in space, alone, facing the most gruesome hell.
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