My guitar cover of ecco the dolphin the lagoon

[BOOMY]

Excuse the video quality, I am still getting my head around this stuff and my equipment is rubbish; iphone running into a 7 year old pc. Getting the timing to line up with the amount of ram I am working with is an absolute headache. I just felt I could not post the audio without some sort of video so I knocked this up.
Came from a moment of inspiration when I realised how similar the ecco music is to pink floyd/tool and then later read the original composers were inspired by pink floyd. It really was not difficult to replicate similar sounds to the original using basic everyday effects which is testament to the original soundtrack sounding like real music not just chip tune.

[GeneraL CyberFunK]

While I think the Ecco CD soundtrack is THE best... I actually really liked the MD version too.. Definitely more coverable

That was cool

[Deef]

Lol, loved the intro, and loved the cover. Man I love that music, nostalgia++ . I just wish there was more of it... I literally want to start making requests now. (coughOpenOceancough)

Like pretty much anything Mega-CD related, I prefer the Megadrive version. There are a few tracks on the CD game I really like, but nothing beats the MD intro theme imo.

That was a tough game to crack. Especially the freaking last levels... which also scared the crap out of me. Oh god, just cover everything please.

[BOOMY]

Turns out I am an absent minded fool and uploaded a version of it that was missing one of the guitar ambiance tracks. I feel silly for pimping it before I realized. While you have all probably used up whatever patience you had for me to watch it the first time I urge you to hear it the way it was intended.

I will just have to stomach losing the whopping double digit figures of likes, comments and views and link to the new video from the old one. Such a fool I am.
The game certainly is tough. I am currently attempting to complete it for the first time as I have always lost interest before I reached the end. Currently stuck on welcome to the machine level. I will feel so l33t when I clock it. It has been a fucken slog of hard as nails sections but they are all childs play compared to this level.

And thankyou so much for your positive comments. I will certainly get around to covering more when I have time. This one was an absolute timetable minefield trying to slot it in around double shifts.

[Deef]

The new version does sound much better; just fills it out, that extra part.

It has been a fucken slog of hard as nails sections but they are all childs play compared to this level.

QFT. For me (playing as a kid), it wasn't just hard, but was so damn intense with its atmosphere. I remember saying this exact thing to a mate like... 20+ years ago. In hindsight, the whole game was a big atmospheric buildup to the final levels. All happy and pretty at first, but just gets so serious and moody as it plays out. I never realised until now how much Ecco DotF failed to capture that... though it would have been a bit too much for a 3D game imo. Hmm I miss that game too.

I found Ecco II to be nowhere near as hard; probably a deliberate thing. It tried out 1 or 2 different graphical effects and kind of cheapened it all a little for me, and its theme kind of starts as moody as the original finishes. So the first Ecco is where it's at I reckon. After Sonic, Ecco was a bit of a system seller for me. I still remember the promo videos (like, a literal video cassette of demo clips I got from God knows where) with that whole "How high in the sky ..." bit. Well impressed.

Ok, sorry for the nostalgia gushing.

[BOOMY]

Cheers, For the feedback. It certainly has all the notes in it now.

The atmosphere you speak of, holds up. I literally had to turn the sound off in that level to get as far in it as I am currently getting; though I'd attribute part of the atmosphere to how excited I get when I'm near the end of such a hard game.
There is definitely something to be said about the feeling of being alone and the atmosphere of how mysterious the ocean is as you learn ancient wisdoms song by song. The scope and ambitions of this game truly are incredible. One can draw parallels with the atmosphere and solitude of super metroid and the time travel/musical key themes from Zelda. Ecco deserves the kind of awesome fandom and credit those games get. It is also one of the best controlling games ever IMO.

[BOOMY]

Deef, ever since you mentioned open ocean I have been jamming with it. It has a real iron maiden picking exercise kind of feeling to the tune. Anyway I had a day and a half off work for once so I engaged turbo mode and made a video for open ocean.

I'm not sure I got the mix right but I'm happy with that effort considering it was done it less than half the time of my first ecco cover. The amount of notes and tempo made me feel like a faux musical genius when I was working it out. I couldn't think of a new intro so I guess call this the sequel in the same series.

I think I got my head around my video editing software a bit better this time too.
I want to cover the undercaves music then I think I'm done with ecco music, we'll see where I end up. I should probably put some of this effort into clocking that final stage/boss too.
Shit I should be sleep

[Deef]

Man it's not hard for that guitar to produce the same kind of wailing, isolated feel. See how I credit the guitar, not you, lol. Definitely fun stuff though, again, a shame it stopped when it did. I'd happily just let that keep playing. Again the nostalgia... that video reminds me of how I'd play the level, which was pretty much the opposite to what's on screen there. It was just this lonely but cool panic the whole way through. I'd get air as often as possible just to avoid the sharks... though perhaps I was just bad at it. For such a simple level to "build", it was really perfectly placed in the game.

You must beat it the game. I know I went years before making it all the way through WTTM.
I agree with those points you make about the game, comparing it to Metroid and all, except it just isn't as big a game. It really could have been though; could have carried it. And such a pretty game too.

Undercaves was like the first proper level in terms of challenge I believe, so I wasn't in love with it. That octopus. I don't know about you but I just could not get how slowly I was expected to move past him.

[unfnknblvbl]

I see I haven't managed to convince you of the magical abilities of the 7-string...