Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20150105023918

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqFIcdJ5VdE

May be the saddest video game music I've ever heard. The context of this is one of your...well, friend seems an odd word, but one of your allies sends you up north to check out rumors of a ruined shrine buried in the ice. The last star spirit (the plot coupon this game uses to pay its bills) is located there; unfortunately, Bowser has also garrisoned it with his own troops, including a legion of ghosts led by the Chrystal King, an evil spirit and master illusionist.

However, as you progress through the palace and fight its inhabitants, you learn its history. Once upon a time your buddy's family was in charge of protecting it, only for the Chrystal King and his cronies to drive them out. You encounter the ghost of one of his ancestors, whose spirit is still guarding what's left of the palace even after a few hundred years, and asks you to help her reclaim it.

I like the theme itself, since it has a lot of beauty and grandeur to it, but at the same time sounds like a frozen hall of mirrors (which is more or less what the Chrystal Palace is). I think it makes fair ending music.