raise up your bat is naturally the highlight of the chapter 3 soundtrack for me. the melody is great, both sets of lyrics are great, the lost girl leitmotif is incorporated beautifully as the chorus of the entire thing, oh and for some reason there's quite a few parts that sound like megalovania and justice from undertale yellow. one of the rare lyrical pieces in deltarune so far, and toby knocked it out of the park (though was anyone expecting otherwise?)
chapter 4 has an even stronger soundtrack in my opinion, with several top-tier songs, but i'd like to highlight the third sanctuary and its ridiculous yet fluid time signatures. the song as a whole has a really driving energy to it, and that 23/8 part. truly the peak of the song. there's like at least three different ways to feel the rhythm in that section and i can switch between all three of them on the fly. the part at 1:47 is also quite fun to follow along with. i like to count it as 12/8, 11/8, 10/8, 12/8, 11/8, 11/8, 11/8, 12/8. has a really nice push and pull feel to it.
to highlight some less popular songs: paradise, paradise has a nice melody, especially at 1:22. as does old wooden rafters, which is seriously low on views considering how good it is. and ever higher is just cheerful and fun, especially the section starting at 1:05.
can we also talk about how masterfully guardian uses leitmotifs from from now on? the main dark sanctuary leitmotif appears in a bunch of different forms. first the narrower, darker-sounding version associated with the titans, extended in a 3-3-3-3-2-2 rhythm. then the original, wider version in its original 3-3-2 rhythm, bringing in a big burst of hope for the "chorus" of the song. (also the guitar that introduces that section is so cool!) then at the end of the song, we pair up the wider intervals with the extended rhythm for a determined feel that's not fully hope, but also not fully despair. absolutely insane how the same leitmotif can be manipulated into taking on three very different tones in one cohesive song.
but that's not even the leitmotif that i find the coolest here. a motif more unique to from now on is transformed into something much different-sounding in guardian. these are the only two tracks i could identify this motif in, and it's kind of hard to even realize they're the same motif at first because the rhythm is quite different, and the two just don't sound anything alike in the context of their respective songs. truly an amazing final boss theme to end off the gameplay of the new chapters.
...man that's a lot of stuff i wrote. can you tell i like the new songs a lot? say what you will about toby TAKING TOO LONG, the final result is worth it!
what are your favourite songs from the new chapters?
happy deltarune a month ago day! the chapter 3 and 4 soundtrack, to the surprise of nobody, is full of awesome new music. let's talk about the songs we like the best! (or anything else related to the soundtrack if you want)
BERDLY?!?!?!
(think they'll still enthusiastically accept berdly's invitation in chapter 4 though, just to mess with him if nothing else)
music choices (meme in body - minor deltarune chapter 3 spoilers)
happy halloween to c/undertale_deltarune! new newsletter dropped (it's the source for the thumbnail image)
[thumbnail image: annoying dog in a bedsheet ghost costume. woof]
newsletter summary:
nice stuff!
Juno Songs - Kirby and the Forgotten Land FINALE COLLECTION WITH LYRICS - FULL PACKAGE
and here he is with his long-awaited cover of two planets approach, along with some other new goodies! what an experience
it's not an easy question for me!
i'll highlight two from undertale: first, it's pretty cool how waterfall is kind of a "leitmotif bridge" between ruins and another medium / core. too bad snowy isn't connected in the same way
more notably: the way don't give up uses the variation of the ruins leitmotif from an ending / undyne's neutral death theme is pretty amazing. with pretty much the exact same melody and rhythm, it manages to go from depressing and emotional to inspiring... and emotional.
for deltarune, i'll highlight two from chapter 1 and one from chapter 2. i like how field of hopes and dreams, as the very first "proper" area theme, heavily emphasizes the don't forget leitmotif, using it in a cheerful, upbeat way.
as for one of the very last songs in chapter one, the way chaos king just blasts you with the legend section C in a refreshing burst of determination and hope that contrasts nicely with the rest of the theme... yeah even in chapter 1, despite lacking the various improvements of chapter 2, toby fox absolutely nailed it with everything music-wise.
and as for chapter 2, the way berdly's theme is incorporated into attack of the killer queen is both surprisingly subtle (especially since it actually takes up more of the song than queen's own leitmotif(!)) and, just, pleasant to listen to. in particular, i love the way they changed around the rhythm for section B of berdly's theme.
discussion question: what's your favourite use of a leitmotif in undertale/deltarune?
let's see if this community is better at responding to these than c/kirby! :p
toby fox is famous for his use of leitmotifs. what specific instances do you find compelling, interesting, memorable, etc?
New World Friends Chat: Kirby's "Really Cool Idea"
---Kirby's "Really Cool Idea"--- kirby writes down a really cool idea. too bad nobody can read it... alt text: Kirby's house. Kirby's going out to take care of some business. Kirby, smiling wide: Oh! Before I leave, I had a really cool idea that I wrote down on a piece of paper! I hid it somewhe...
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Kirby's house. Kirby's going out to take care of some business.
Kirby, smiling wide: Oh! Before I leave, I had a really cool idea that I wrote down on a piece of paper! I hid it somewhere! Try to find it! Bye!
Bandee and Elfilin, happy: Bye Kirby!
They immediately start searching for that piece of paper. Not even ten seconds later...
Elfilin, happy: Found it! He just hid it under the table. Now, what "really cool idea" did he write down...?
Elfilin, sad: ...I can't read his handwriting. Bandee, can you read it?
Bandee, sad: ...No, I can't! I can usually read his handwriting just fine, but this is some really messy handwriting, even for him!
Bandee, happy: ...For his handwriting to be this bad, he must've been really excited! Let's just ask him about it when he comes back!
Some time later...
Elfilin: Kirby! You're back! We found the paper that you hid! ...But neither of us could read your handwriting. What was your "really cool idea?"
Kirby, happy:
Snuggles by FafaMeow
[provided description: Kirby and Elfilin hugging together :3]
link to original: https://www.deviantart.com/fafameow/art/Snuggles-915902640
it's meant to play in a loop, but for whatever reason lemmy seems to not do well with that
this person draws great art, including lots of great kirby art! this is one of the cuter forgotten land ones
Running Through the New World (With Lyrics) by BOOM! Fanfic-a-Latta!
a wonderful, lesser-known kirby "with lyrics" fanwork! to echo the pinned comment, you can view the lyrics as being from bandana dee's perspective, which makes things even cuter!
New World Friends Chat: The Apple Juice Game
[screen-reader-friendly text-only version here.]
and here we are! this is the first installment of what will hopefully be a regularly updating series. kirby, bandana dee, and elfilin chat about stuff and do various other things.
i'm not good at visual art, but i am reasonably good at programming, and i figure i'm not horrible at writing dialogue (though i don't have much experience in that department). so the logical way for me to contribute original content to this community is exactly what this series will be: a thing told through the format of undertale-style text boxes, similar to stuff like Conversations from the Lunch Table. only with kirby characters instead of toby fox characters.
don't have a firm idea what i want the release schedule for this thing to look like, but my main goal with this series is for c/kirby to have a steady stream of reasonably high-ish quality oc c
a dialogue portrait for a thing that i'm working on
[image: a pixel art drawing of kirby's smiling face (just his face, not his limbs) against a cyan background]
this community hasn't had a post in five days, so here's something i just finished today! (it only took forever to get that mouth looking reasonably good...)
edit: moved the eyes and cheek blushes closer together because it turns out bandee would've been too wide otherwise. also revised the mouth, again. it's hard to make it look good with such a limited number of pixels, but that's the tradeoff when working with low-size pixel art: fewer pixels that need to be worked with, but also fewer pixels to work with.
edit 2: changed the background colour because it was too close to elfilin's colour.
for a while now, i've had an idea for some reasonably low-effort oc content that i could post here. would take quite a bit of upfront work (which is what i'm currently doing), but afterwards i'll hopefully be able to put something out semi-regularly for this community. not sure wh
elfilem (more polished version)
[image: the lemmy logo, but with elfilin's eyes, cheek blushes, ear notch, and general colouration. still retains the original whiskers, ears (size-wise), and nose.]
here's the more polished version of elfilem that i promised! it was pretty fun to work on, and i'm quite proud of the final result. instead of just roughly eyeballing everything, i leveraged the power of code (i.e. wrote an svg file by hand) and used Precise Numbers™ to dictate the position and size of things.
seems like lemmy doesn't support uploading svg files, so instead i uploaded a png version. not sure if and how i'll share the original svg -- would certainly love to! i commented the code specifically so that others could get a better understanding of what i did to draw each thing.
edit: never mind, just pasted the svg source code into a comment below
list of notable changes from the original elfilem:
eflilem
[image: the lemmy logo, modified to look like elfilin. head is now cyan. eyes are now large blue ovals with smaller white ovals inside. nose is now orange. pink cheek blushes added. ears are now orange on the inside with a cyan outer rim. right ear (our left) now has the Elfilin Ear Hole™.]
as you can tell by my decreased posting activity the last few days, i've run out of ideas for reasonably-low-effort oc content to post here! this was my final idea of this sort -- kind of a spiritual successor to kirbby. (i do have some other things i want to make and post here, but it'll probably take a good while to actually make them.)
this time around i actually had to manually draw some details instead of just copy-pasting stuff, so it took a bit more effort to make and the technical quality's not as good. still, hope you enjoy this little guy!
created using paintnet and [this lemmy logo that i got from wikipedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:
discussion question: what's your favourite piece of official kirby music that's not from a kirby game?
could be from the anime, smash bros, concerts, memorial arrangements, kirby cafe, anything other than the kirby games themselves!
kirbby
[image: kibby, the unofficial kbin bird mascot, coloured pink like kirby. a cheek blush similar to kirby's has also been addded.]
although my accounts are mostly on lemmy, i actually mainly browse using kbin.
i just saw this post declaring the new name of the unofficial kbin bird mascot to be "kibby". to celebrate, here he is in kirby's colours
created using paintnet and two of the pictures in the image linked in the linked post (the normal version and the one with the blush and bow). colours were chosen to be consistent with my quadrupedal kirby drawing.
(posted on this account instead of the lemm.ee one because kbin.social federation is being weird and i want people at kbin to be able to see it.)
chimchila pluralization (not to be confused with the warp incident)
[image:
OMG ELFILIN
(kirby and the forgotten land postgame, kirby's house)
Elfilin: "My power to create vortices isn't very strong, but I can open one to Planet Popstar anytime."
(zoom in on "vortices")
ELFILIN PLURALIZATION GOD]
why say "vortexes" like a normal person when you can instead use the cooler plural that's consistent with "vertices", "matrices", and "indices" (among other words)? (for the record, wiktionary lists both words as plurals of "vortex".)
here's the "slightly higher effort meme" that i promised. it actually took a stupidly long time to make because of various technical difficulties. again, not an expert meme maker. not yet.
made with oajoo image editor
image screenshotted from this youtube video
elfilin best boy (aside from all of the other best boys)
[image: "Expanding Pupil" meme
"The pupil can expand as much as 55% when you look at something you love"
(small pupil)
(happy elfilin)
(BIG pupil)]
chimchila our beloved
am working on a slightly higher-effort meme right now, but that's probably going to take a while with my current toolset (i only have access to mobile these few days) and meme-making experience (approximately none), so in the meantime have this thing
made with oajoo image editor
meme template: modified from some random example on know your meme
elfilin image taken from wikirby
quadrupedal kirby
[image: kirby, but his hands are replaced with another set of red feet. he's meant to be in a typical quadrupedal stance, viewed from the front.]
decided to contribute some content here. you're all welcome for this cursed beautiful image. since i'm an amazing artist, you might misinterpret the image as (normal) kirby sitting down but he has red hands for some reason. don't worry, happens to me half the time too.
created using unreadable messy code + the paintnet paint bucket tool.
(could actually be a pretty cute concept... you know, if drawn by an actual artist instead of a programmer with no art training.)
