I spent the last three days working on this on-and-off, after listening to the entire BGM soundtrack of MOTHER, followed by the OST arrangements.
Was originally going for a straight midi sound to make it artificial as hell, but ended up going with almost-believable instead, since I'm trapped using stuff that would've been professional quality in 1997.
I was originally planning to do a voice-over with the intro prologue text; have it sort of timed to each 'verse' of the first part, and have it wrap up a little bit before the 1:54 mark, with the rest just being instrumental... Unfortunately my voice is screwed up thanks to summer allergies, and the voice-over would've made it pretentious anyway.
On that note, I really like the bass, sine and square waves; they're the only things I chose not to add reverb to. Sort of makes them a bit lonely, I think.
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