the guitar teacher who I was watching react to the mother 3 soudntrack got to this song and was like "nope, this is above my pay grade"

Mother 3 | Strong One (Masked Man) | Extended

"I don't fuck with time signatures this advanced"

LAUGHS

fun fact that song is in

29/16 time

in a game with a rhythm mechanic

he was talking about some of the more subtle things the game does to fuck with you

like having a phrase with slightly complex rhythm play twice, but the second time, one of the instruments is shifted forward by an eighth note

or songs that have those random breakdowns in the middle, except after the breakdown the song is slightly faster or slower than it was before

Shogo Sakai is a genius but also a devil

"this is above my pay grade" was also my reaction to this song as a player

my favorite thing is that this song is a remix of a song in 15/8, and only shows up after you actually might have gotten COMFORTABLE with the 15/8 song... but then you get that song, but subtly wrong in ways that you can't quantify, at 29/16, and then it's... the same song except certain notes get rushed, seemingly at random