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I know I've mentioned this before but I didn't exactly go into it - I wasn't sure if others had noticed it outside of a couple of small groups (such as fans of Demento), but I noticed quite a while ago that there's a few tracks that have been released on the soundtracks that seem to sound suspiciously like that to other games (particularly in relation to RE4's development history between Production Studio 1 and 4 it seems).
One such one would be between Demento's "Hazy Vision" to the "You Are Dead"/Game over music of Outbreak File #2. I uploaded the audio as an example of one such one. The start's difference is that it's a bit quieter and it sounds like there's been a bit of a phaser and/or wah-wah styled distortion on it to not sound so clear in contrast to the version of Hazy Vision I've used from my copy of the Demento OST.
There's other ones as well, such as "Central Hall" in RE4 to "Fake Planets" in Demento - which I can actually hear playing underneath the music on top of it completely, and parts cut to be looped as sound effects to add to the general uneasy ambient sound the song has.
I mean, it doesn't seem to be reuse in the similarity of say - Devil May Cry reusing the Clock Tower 3 menu sounds, which Glass Rose and Demento also have. Demento also has the Ghost sound for the wailing stone distraction item and the like.
Now, I know Seiko Kobuchi and Shinya Okada weren't credited on those however the same sort of thing is in but Seiko was actually credited on the 5 OST (Majini I seems to be sampling Seiko's Zero work, Voice in the Darkness is sampling Demento music quite clearly) and in some other songs that are currently escaping me.
Although the factor that Yoshiki Sandou ("D.J. Sandou") was involved as a sound designer for Outbreak, Outbreak File #2 and 5 doesn't explain the factor that the music composed by Seiko was used in the actual songs instead of just the sound effects that Sandou could have used considering that Hideaki Utsumi was the sound designer for Demento. It partially makes sense considering that Yoshiki Sandou and Seiko Kobuchi have a group title of "Carbonara Synthesizer" but aside from that - reuse of WHOLE songs uncredited?
Anyway. I don't know what to think of it, as I keep hearing the songs in other songs now and it irritates me to hell because I personally can't decide if it's a good thing that they used the Demento music and sound effects OR if it's a bad thing for lazy reuse and/or uncredited lazy reuse again...
Or am I just going crazy and hearing things all over the place?
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One such one would be between Demento's "Hazy Vision" to the "You Are Dead"/Game over music of Outbreak File #2. I uploaded the audio as an example of one such one. The start's difference is that it's a bit quieter and it sounds like there's been a bit of a phaser and/or wah-wah styled distortion on it to not sound so clear in contrast to the version of Hazy Vision I've used from my copy of the Demento OST.
There's other ones as well, such as "Central Hall" in RE4 to "Fake Planets" in Demento - which I can actually hear playing underneath the music on top of it completely, and parts cut to be looped as sound effects to add to the general uneasy ambient sound the song has.
I mean, it doesn't seem to be reuse in the similarity of say - Devil May Cry reusing the Clock Tower 3 menu sounds, which Glass Rose and Demento also have. Demento also has the Ghost sound for the wailing stone distraction item and the like.
Now, I know Seiko Kobuchi and Shinya Okada weren't credited on those however the same sort of thing is in but Seiko was actually credited on the 5 OST (Majini I seems to be sampling Seiko's Zero work, Voice in the Darkness is sampling Demento music quite clearly) and in some other songs that are currently escaping me.
Although the factor that Yoshiki Sandou ("D.J. Sandou") was involved as a sound designer for Outbreak, Outbreak File #2 and 5 doesn't explain the factor that the music composed by Seiko was used in the actual songs instead of just the sound effects that Sandou could have used considering that Hideaki Utsumi was the sound designer for Demento. It partially makes sense considering that Yoshiki Sandou and Seiko Kobuchi have a group title of "Carbonara Synthesizer" but aside from that - reuse of WHOLE songs uncredited?
Anyway. I don't know what to think of it, as I keep hearing the songs in other songs now and it irritates me to hell because I personally can't decide if it's a good thing that they used the Demento music and sound effects OR if it's a bad thing for lazy reuse and/or uncredited lazy reuse again...
Or am I just going crazy and hearing things all over the place?
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Nah, I listen to trailer music too. It's just a pity a lot of them don't make their albums available to the public but that's a whole other story for that bit. XD
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