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Shadows[1] is a foreboding, eerie theme in Metroid Prime Hunters. It is an arrangement of Moth Temple Landing Site,[2] a theme from the beginning of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. The original version was composed by Kenji Yamamoto, while Lawrence Schwedler arranged the remix.
Description[]
Moth Temple Landing Site plays when Samus lands on Aether and begins to explore the Splinter Hive. It stops after she encounters Dark Samus for the first time, entering a Portal, although it continues to play in this part of the Temple Grounds on subsequent visits. This song features a few of the beats and ambient sounds present in the Chozo Ruins theme heard prior to acquiring the Morph Ball in Metroid Prime, and this ambience is shared with Splinter Hive. The melody has a mysterious tone and is performed on a high-pitched synth instrument.
In Hunters, Shadows retains the ambience and drumbeats of the original Moth Temple Landing Site, but features a new melody with tense high strings, giving it a more orchestral sound than the original synth melody. Shadows plays on the Celestial Archives during the first visit, from Samus's landing until the Psycho Bit encounter in Data Shrine 01. After this point, The Archives, the more recognizable theme of the area begins to play. Shadows continues to play in the first half of the Archives on subsequent visits, and into the Transfer Lock on the second. It does not play in the Docking Bay room, where Space Decay plays instead. Shadows also plays in the Fuel Stack room on the Vesper Defense Outpost after Samus scans the Interface Module to stop the station’s destruction. Shadows can later be listened to as track 08 in the Music Test after Gorea's second form is defeated.
The theme from Echoes can be heard here, and the theme from Hunters here.
References[]
- ^ Unused name in internal BGMSELECTLIST.DAT file of Metroid Prime Hunters - SHADOWS (https://tcrf.net/index.php?title=Metroid_Prime_Hunters&direction=next&oldid=48584)
- ^ As named in the internal data of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes