My favorite track from Cave Story. I remember sitting at work when I encountered this part of the game. It seemed that all the sorrow of the story had been distilled into this moment. I'm placing this after Oppression for this reason: My first playthrough like many folks I was unable to save Curly. I remember after defeating the core having to walk back through the corridor listening to this song, and being absolutely heartbroken. I had failed. This moment is what I had framed in mind when doing this one. Track 16: Geothermal.

My Cave Story recomp OST project. I have all of the tracks mostly mixed and mastered. I'm going to try and finish the final touches on every track sequentially, and release one every day. When I'm done I'll add a link for the OST in it's entirety fully tagged.

This all started when the Wii version came out, and I was speed-running Hell. I became frustrated (like ya do) and decided to switch over to the Wii music to see what Running Hell sounded like. Like every one of the new songs it was rather atrocious. Did they even try?!? So I decided to do my own remake of the OST. I started with Running Hell, and kinda never stopped.

You'll notice I didn't do too much "remixing" of the existing material, because let's face it… The OST was near sonic perfection as-is… I did what I felt at the time, and I'm rather pleased with how it all played out. You'll also notice there are no fade-outs. I don't do fade-outs. They've always made songs sound unfinished to me.

Thanks for any feedback.

Image by: Christopher Reavey

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