Opera Singer Reacts to It's Pizza Time! and The Death That I Deservioli || Pizza Tower OST

wha....what?
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[hoob]

Seeing someone that I’ve seen before go into extreme depth about music just go, “…what?” Was hilarious

[SuperLlama]

The best interpretation I've heard of both songs:
"Lap 1: The theme of running for your life from certain death.
Lap 2: The theme of daring Death to catch you if he can."

[Lyn]

"It's like a fever dream"
"It's like going on a 6 mile run"
Exactly! That sums it up pretty well

[justinleach]

“I guess, uh… <laugh> I don’t know. That’s Pizza Tower.”

That quote deserves to go on the front of the box.

[jamarswope]

It’s Pizza Time! is the definition of GOOO HURRY UP

TDTID is confidence. It’s completely optional, so if you get yourself killed, it’s truly the death that you deservioli. But you chose it, because you believe you can do it!

[Twisted_Logic]

"Is this a meme?"

This whole game is one giant, extremely high effort shitpost while also being a love letter to 90's teen culture and many other things

[Onjerlay]

Marco before listening to this: "I don't understand Pizza Tower"
Marco after listening to this: "I don't understand Pizza Tower"

[zephytime]

These two songs are interesting to me because they outline a really clear distinction between "normal" level music and "escape" level music. The job of introducing the setting and atmosphere and giving you a vibe has already been accomplished at this point by the (generally very groovy) normal level BGM.

Instead, these tracks are blaring sirens meant to tear all that down and thrust you forwards, cast in the grand tradition of Wario Land 4's Hurry Up!: ten thousand volts to the back of your neck, firing up a neon sign in your brain that reads "SCREW ALL THAT, HAUL ASS, RIGHT NOW". Everything is honed to cut right through the atmosphere, tear down the setting, and grab you by the throat.

If you want a clearer sense of Pizza Tower's vibe, check out an assortment of the normal level music, or maybe some of the boss music. It's pretty diverse, very 90s, full of samples. Wario and Earthworm Jim meets Sonic CD.

[thatchillasian]

Pizza Tower is absurd fever dream that has been injected with pure creativity and hard drugs, which is perfectly portrayed by these tracks.

[thatnerdcalledzanni]

"these tracks are both violent and make me go into a 6 mile run"
oh Marco... you have no idea.

[bloodclaw]

Welcome to how chaotic Pizza Tower is! So, for context, Pizza tower stages are typically somewhat linear platformers, with some occasional side paths. The stages are capped off by attacking a large pillar that triggers "Its Pizza Time!!" and a timer starts ticking down. You have thst time limit to escape the level before Pizzaface, the main antagonist, starts chasing you through the stage. If he touches you, you die, full stop. Not to mention, the escape sequence has you go backwards through the stage to replay it in reverse while on said time limit. It is a frantic, stressful rush to the exit, as is reflected by the song.

"The Death I Deservioli " however, is the theme of what is called Lap 2. Near the exit of the stage, during the exit sequence, you can instead opt to take Lap 2, returning you back to where you started the escape sequence for a 2nd lap. It is meant to be a fight against hubris. While you were merely escaping on the first song, the second one has you staring death in the face and challenging him by attempting a 2nd lap purely for points and bragging rights.

Hope this helps make these songs even more awesome!

[ijames]

i love how despite the music being so frantic and bonkers, that's completely by design.

[tracynvalus]

6:48 bro turned into an angry bird for a second there

[Sjors_]

It's Pizza Time just perfectly captures that "neurotic person finally snapping and revealing the manic madness they've been barely suppressing this whole time" energy.

[MilkyWayChances]

This music really does manage to sound how the art style of the game looks

[SollidnitrogeN]

Words cannot describe the utter joy of hearing this man descend into goblin mode trying to explain what Pizza Time feels like.

[Jazzphnk]

'Violent' is a very good word to describe Pizza Tower.

A war veteran turned pizzaria owner is threatened by a literal giant flying pizza with the destruction of his establishment by a massive laser gun that is atop said Pizza Tower. The pizzaria owner takes matters into his own hands and smashes through everyone and everything in his way while sprinting at mach 3. It's hectic and manic and paired with the visual style of Ed, Edd, and Eddy's animation. It'll give you brain fatigue after 20 minutes. It's great!

[GoldKnightProduction]

This might be one of the few times where the music alone is not enough. The imagery of a middle-aged, balding, anxiety-driven Italian man running so fast he can barrel himself through walls, being followed by some sentient toppings in a breakneck mad-dash for the exit door really ties it all together.
...And then because he knows his skill is great enough, he blasts past the exit door so he can run a victory lap, all while time is *still* running out.

[xilefm-]

It's Pizza Time & The Death that I Deservioli are two of a pair.
The first is a confused, stressful, mad dash to escape certain death, that continues to get more frantic as it goes until it suddenly gives way, which usually coincides with your end.
The second one comes after, if you manage to live through Pizza Time and is a more triumphant, yet still stressful companion piece. It serves as a victory lap assuring you of your ascent, even when certain death still hangs close over your head.

[Fluxuate]

this ost feels like when I forget to take my antidepressants and get brain zaps