Fact: Music is an integral part of any game worth playing. And one of the most important pieces in any game is the main theme, the music that starts in the intro, or the main menu, or the first level, but eventually comes to be played inside our heads whenever the game is mentioned. Mario probably did this the best; all that is needed is the famous "Doo doo doot [sub]do[/sub] doot doot! to get the entire track playing and a Mario jumping around in your skull.
But that's not what this thread is about. Sometimes you will play a game, and you find another song, whether from another game, the game itself, or from real life, which seems to capture the game perfectly. In my case, I found "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce to go very well with Super Smash Bros. Brawl. A song about heroes banding together to fight a great evil, to "break the seal of this curse if [they] possibly can" matches the Subsapace Emissary so well.
So, fellow Escapists, which songs have you found that could be a video games's alternate theme song?
Oh, for those who care, this is the video that made me realize the connection in my example:
But that's not what this thread is about. Sometimes you will play a game, and you find another song, whether from another game, the game itself, or from real life, which seems to capture the game perfectly. In my case, I found "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce to go very well with Super Smash Bros. Brawl. A song about heroes banding together to fight a great evil, to "break the seal of this curse if [they] possibly can" matches the Subsapace Emissary so well.
So, fellow Escapists, which songs have you found that could be a video games's alternate theme song?
Oh, for those who care, this is the video that made me realize the connection in my example: