Kyū Sawamura - Sally.exe - ______ Act 9 (Music)

(Please excuse the poor video effects.)

Music is © Kyu Sawamura, 2013.

Music submission originally uploaded in FurAffinity:
Cover art:
Used with permission.

Composed in FL Studio using VOPM and YM2612 VSTi plug-ins.

[anghelocamposbecerra]

"Sonic, my love" That sentence gave me a little chill when I finished playing Sally.exe

[aayan]

Not many people give this melody the respect it deserves, and it's mostly outshadowed by the music in the original sonic.exe game. The music of both "..." and act 9 create a feeling of hopelessness. This fits really well in both cases. In the original game, Eggman when he sees X doesn't fight like Knuckles or flee like Tails, he just stands there. He's seen how Tails and Knuckles were killed and knows it's no point to try and run or fight back, and to accept his fate would be alot easier than a needless struggle. For act 9, unlike Robotnik, Sally doesn't accept her fate. It's hopeless because there is no way to escape. Both Amy and Cream could've technically survived if they played their cards right. But Sally's trapped. She can NOT escape no matter what she does. Towards the end it starts to speed up, most likely referencing Sally growing more and more panicked. Then it slows again. She's dead, her heart no longer remains beating.

[returnofthemari]

No matter how bad Sonic.exe may be

This music will be amazing

[Elpanasmultiversal]

11 years later, stills being a really good composition. I wouldn't say that it gives me chills, but surely makes the ambient tense and hopeless, and i love that.

[thedylansang]

And then Sunkey.MPEG presses a button to retract the walls, and the song quickly reverse speeds up and then Sally gets cereal and milk.

[dont_count_on_it]

The song basically says: "It’s all over, there is nothing you can do, accept your fate, in the world of death..."

[jonnycarcano]

I love this music. It's dark, but strangely beautiful, and it's very effective, given the context.

[mihaelkYeah]

Thank you. To be honest I was expecting more from Sally.EXE, the art scared me a lot more than the pasta itself. So I wanted the music to compensate and add up to the atmosphere...
Like I said in my parallel Sally.EXE upload, I just wish the levels weren't that short and actually allowed the music to show off more. Plus more tension. Things are described to happen too fast...

[micahthebestfr]

The thing that I love about this ost is that it gives this sense of “it’s all over, its the end and just accept your fate because there’s nothing you can do”. Everyone being there as souls along with Exe also adds to that sense of feeling too.

I also read that it symbolizes Sally’s heartbeat, and when the song slows and ends that means shes fully dead, and gone. And I agree with that too.

[rhysthereddragon]

This music truly reflects the horrific feeling of knowing there’s nowhere for Sally/the player to run. It’s slow, but tense at first, likely as the player attempts to move, but that tension increases when you see the walls closing in, so you desperately try to push them back, the music speeding up as you realise you can’t, and then, those final few notes play out as you understand there was never any escape, and just quietly accept your death. Beautifully morbid, beautifully executed.

[Alucardxlq]

I think the point of it is sallys heart beat and Everytime she fears, the walls close in and when the walls close in her heart beats gets faster and faster

[AurenTheGuy]

Kyle didn't want to play
with me...what a shame...

But I can play with you guys...
...right, everyone?

[Toadette]

I love the Hill Act 1 motifs, and also the fact there is so much effort put into this slapper of a song that only lasts like 20 seconds in the game lol, great job

[thehiddenwatcher]

This song basically says: “your screwed, it’s all over, accept your fate, in the world of death.”

[stephenfisher]

When Music Ends, Sally.exe Head Started To Grow!

[gamesnathanlikes]

1:08 you hear the part of the music that plays when you get to Act 9 in sally.exe

[LegendaryLockeZ]

This song is oddly relaxing & dark at the same time.
Speaking of Sally.EXE, the game didn’t scare me, it was the art the the end that almost gave me a heart attack when I was little

[dudefrompokemongold]

The music sounds like our composer friend struggles to not slip back in his old "Hill.gym" leitmotif. I guess every single music composer has that one riff or motif that they just cannot keep away from, no matter how hard they try.

[SuperFlyingGlydon]

This is actually the scariest track from a .exe game to me (probably because I have nyctophobia/a bad fear of the dark) (probably even scarier than the hidden level in Sonic.exe version 5)

[satanasness]

I like to hear this while i'm drawing
I love the music, great job :D!