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Pikmin -- Today's Results

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First of all, this is a cover. Please see the original here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqjKACLsZhQ


I wanted to put "(Cover)" in the song title, but NG is really uppity about title lengths, so you'll have to deal with it...


I was watching a Pikmin 2 "let's play" on YouTube, and when this song came up, I quickly remembered why it's my favourite part of the game. It's so calm, so chill -- perfect for reviewing your daily pikmin statistics and all that jazz. I'm not a huge RTS player, but stuff like this makes me want to change my mind sometimes...


This song appears in all three Pikmin titles. The arrangement is noticeably different in Pikmin 3, however. If you're curious as to what it sounds like in that game, here's a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9daRQDwSBAQ


This cover was based off of the first version that I linked, which appears in Pikmin 2. This version is almost identical to the one in the original game, save for one subtle percussion part (I think? Just going off of a YouTube comment I read -- It's honestly hard to tell). However, since the song makes an appearance in all three games, I've just left the title as "Pikmin", referring to the series as a whole rather than a single game.


Wow. Anyway. Good thing I explained that huh.


I used the original as a reference track this time, trying to match volumes and tones, but it doesn't have the same feel to it. I don't know what to think of the result; I'm more interested in what YOU have to say. So fire away -- 0 stars, 5 stars, 6/10 NAME YOUR PRICE


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I'm not really sure what to say to this one honestly, so I'll focus on what I feel are the main differences from the original.

The biggest difference is the lead. Pikmin 2's lead has a warble to it, and that warble reminds me of spaceships. It may be just the fact that I've played Pikmin 2 and the association to spaceships came from there, but this being a cover it's still just as important. Your lead on the other hand is a lot smoother, and feels more spacey than it does spaceshippy, and less eithery than the original warble in my opinion. It also feels more imposing in your version, perhaps it would have been better to make it a little quieter and shift the focus more towards the atmosphere.

An important sound in either song is a pad on the far right that plays single short notes and sounds soft and icy. Perhaps in the original it is meant to capture the coldness of space. However, I feel that the sound sounds icier in your version than it does in the original. I think that it sounds icier in your version regardless of the other sounds, but also even more so due to the (my perception) lesser spaciness of the lead.

Apart from these two points I don't have much else to say. It's a cover. It's not a bad cover. It's a little more icy. Nothing sticks out as a particular sore point, but I also don't feel like it's trying to be any different from the original.

I know that there's a lot of work that needs to be done to make a song that can be sincerely compared to the original, so good job! Keep it up.

Birdinator99 responds:

Your description of the lead is actually bang-on. No arguments here; I could've also looked for a smoother, more naturally quiet-sounding lead, too, as another potential solution.

Actually, your description of the pad is also really good. I didn't know what you meant by "icy" at first, but now it makes sense, if you think of it as a kind of harshness/airiness.

These two things are probably why I don't get the same feel from this cover as I do from the original. This one is too in your face! Hahaha. Well, that and the mixing, too.

I initially was going to try and do something cool with this. I was playing around a lot with drum beats, but nothing seemed to fit the song, so I decided to just do a straight cover. So, yeah, there really isn't much to comment on, is there...

I forgot to mention in the Author Comments that there is no existing MIDI file for this song (or at least, I couldn't find one), so I took about three hours to figure out all the notes myself, sometimes slowing the reference down by 50% in order to make out the light notes that pan left and right constantly. Kind of rewarding to do it from scratch :) So I guess that work would fall under your last statement.

Thanks for taking a little time to listen. More on the way!

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Score
2.99 / 5.00

Uploaded
Mar 11, 2015
5:41 PM EDT
Genre
Video Game
File Info
Song
5 MB
2 min 12 sec

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