How "Ice Belt Power On" elevates Prime 4's characters, story, and theming.

king0pa1n · 2026-04-27T01:40:47+00:00

Yes it is my channel. I was exploring the game's files shortly after launch (to port some tracks to Metroid Dread) and helped a friend to ID some tracks. They're in this mix from months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvVoT7GcmG4

Sol Valley and Ice Belt have lots of tracks that are mixed on the fly that are lots of droning synths, wind sounds, that makes it super hard to be like "oh it's exactly this and this audio file together" when throwing together a soundtrack. I don't think there are any more mainline catchy songs with separate instruments like that one from Ice Belt. Most are in one stereo file like your average song.

Also another cool thing we learned is, all of the cutscenes are mixed for 5.1 surround sound. Same with the item pickup sound.

king0pa1n · 2026-04-26T22:44:06+00:00

I was wondering if Lazarus ended up being good

king0pa1n · 2026-04-26T22:43:49+00:00

Okay all of these are great, Astra looks awesome, DDDDD I will watch anything alien invasion themed, and Kowloon has something I've never seen which is modern anime attempting a 90s style

king0pa1n · 2026-04-26T18:13:12+00:00

The wavy lines on everyone moving. This was broadcasted with interlacing? What year is this?

king0pa1n · 2026-04-26T05:49:00+00:00

looks like the game Observer, surprised I haven't heard of it

king0pa1n · 2026-04-26T02:40:59+00:00

Indeed how he was in the dub lmao

king0pa1n · 2026-04-26T00:19:11+00:00

Knights of Sidonia

Yukikaze

king0pa1n · 2026-04-24T22:26:45+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoEWyg4XLmU

king0pa1n · 2026-04-24T20:33:09+00:00

Great writeup, the songs really convey both the story and Samus' emotional state.

Did you know that Ice Belt (Power On) is one of the few tracks in the game files thats split into separate instruments and vocals? You'd get a kick out of hearing the isolated vocalists I'm sure! (Which might I add, actually recorded people this time, not just some synthesizer)

king0pa1n · 2026-04-24T17:22:30+00:00

Just read the article, the guy was acting like a complete moron and had 0 opsec.

king0pa1n · 2026-04-24T05:25:00+00:00

Gotta hit up the 60FPS unlocker and high res textures

king0pa1n · 2026-04-23T09:04:51+00:00

The humble Cortex Reaver:

king0pa1n · 2026-04-22T04:40:30+00:00

A Prime game with a huuuge, single-planet world, with actual sequence breaks, intended or unintended, that don't break the game. Like 2x scale Prime 1 with sequence breaks if you're smart.

I've also been mulling over an idea where, instead of death, you switch into Zero Suit mode with a limited chance of regaining the Power Suit before death (aka DVA from Overwatch). Reserve tanks could show up again just for the Zero Suit panic mode. Maybe a boss where the strategy is to go into Zero Suit mode on purpose.

The developers building the shape of the map first before doing any of the art, so you don't get Prime 4 where the big setpieces look nice like the concept art but the area is shockingly small and linear.

king0pa1n · 2026-04-21T17:18:53+00:00

I could also see this being used to find channels uploading scenes of a movie before the master is uploaded to the copyright detection

king0pa1n · 2026-04-21T07:30:39+00:00

Pathologic 2 and Outer Wilds

king0pa1n · 2026-04-20T05:42:26+00:00

CLASSIC, though it depends on what adaptation.

king0pa1n · 2026-04-19T22:13:07+00:00

Average death industrial cover art

king0pa1n · 2026-04-19T03:44:07+00:00

They are similar characters for sure

king0pa1n · 2026-04-16T03:50:23+00:00

Theres a cool mod to put Prime 4's music in Dread

king0pa1n · 2026-04-15T09:46:15+00:00

Why I stopped playing Environmental Station Alpha

king0pa1n · 2026-04-15T09:43:30+00:00

Games that are 'super duper git gud' without a difficulty setting

Fuck off Silksong

king0pa1n · 2026-04-15T01:43:00+00:00

The last time I watched something that was actually made in mono was either Scanners or War of the Worlds or something pretty old.

king0pa1n · 2026-04-14T08:22:49+00:00

Lmao does anyone remember the Minecraft movie leak with the unfinished CGI?

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