www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fupfr_eVLPo
Franchise-launching levels of sass and attitude that somehow sounds even better in 8 bit than it does with a full orchestra in the Indigo League anime and when that nostalgia hits the veins it's more potent than any drug.
Like when anyone tells me red and blue is a bad game or that it should step aside for Fire Red and Leaf Green, I just shake my head and think to myself – you had to be there. And it's really the music for me that consolidates this impish, possibly immature loyalty to the original game. Fire red plays better and is prettier but rby sounds hard core because it's grittier. The entire soundtrack from the opening theme to pallet town to victory road to the ending credits does something nothing else can do.
For a fleeting moment I become 10 years old again. The 90s return for just an instant. I like Fire Red and Leaf Green but rby is the only path to get my fix. Well, that's not entirely true. OG gen 2 has even better music, and it's a bit more obscure and less known. But again it's a case of, the 8 bit music blows the freaking pants off of the remake music in HG/SS – and I'm not even saying they did a bad job. They did great. There's just something magical about the gameboy color days for me when it comes to the sound design and tunes.
by MasachoosetsBobert