"Prologue & Ending Theme" from Daze Before Christmas on the SEGA Mega Drive (1994)
Composer: Kim Jensen
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Sunsoft
Developer: Funcom
While not as fanfaric as you might expect from the end song in a game where you play as Santa Claus fighting against all sorts of winter and seemingly random enemies (like rats and...checks notes...birds?) to save Christmas, taking into account the absurd nature of the game, this music fits rather well. As the title states, this music is used during the prologue where you are given the backstory to Santa's predicament before he sets forth on his quest, then again during the epilogue before the credits where it is kind of like, "Yup, he did that. All is well. Now he's enjoying a cuppa by the fire. ROLL CREDITS!"
Just a sweet, calm, jazzy little number that bookends this game nicely. I think the only thing I might change about this song, at least in my head, is to alter the tone of the lounge keyboard to something a little more chime or glockenspiel sounding to give it a more wintery or Christmas feel. Nothing too tinny as you do not want it to end up having that buzzy sound in the higher register. The SNES sound chip used for this soundtrack does have a slightly higher tone to the piano-esque instrument, but it still does not capture winter the same way that the melody is carried in "Ice Cave Chant." But that is just me.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Dancing in Melodies of Last Breath
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