Season 1
Featured on: GilvaSunner’s Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 7
Also on: SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials
Ripped by toonlink & The Gang
The last post made me nostalgic for Season 1’s ending, so fuck it, here’s another rip from back then - the File Select Fusion Collab, a rip with close to 20 creators involved. What a “Fusion Collab” entails has changed quite a fair bit over the years, as the collaborations have grown larger in size with each year. Nowadays, they now tend to focus on individual artists rendering a specific track in their own style across a longer video, such as with Season 2’s Wood Man Fusion Collab. But with Season 1, the meaning was a lot more nebulous - they were almost all made under the direction of toonlink (otherwise goes by “tunedlink” and “toonlinkirl”), and were made more in the style of YTPMVs, having a base song to build off of with an everchanging barrage of styles and sources intermingling at once.
These were released every now and then over the course of Season 1 and were always appreciated, yet today’s choice in particular stands out among them. Being released during what was effectively presented as the ending of the channel, it has a unique kind of emotional baggage to it, it leans into celebrating the entire legacy of the channel and all of its inside jokes. The full-circle moment of getting Joel Vinesauce himself to narrate a section in the middle of the track was perfect - the person whose joke got the entire channel started, now gets invited to formally close it out, with a speech still very much rooted in that niche joke culture SiIva itself thrives in. And it just keeps going in that direction - the rip builds in a congratulatory, yet bittersweet way to truly signal that the channel is about to end, a giant thank-you letter to the entire community that had been fostered over the channel’s small 9-month lifespan.
Of course, its rendered a little bit moot by the channel…not ending, which some folks are still bitter about. Yet I still think this rip works wonders as part of a sendoff to the original era of SiIvaGunner - we’re never going to get anything like Season 1 again, and I’ve grown to accept that.
fivda replied to your post: I really want to finish this but final...
i just made my bravely default kazoo cover and now i feel so bad while listening to this, good job mate
Hey hey hey. Shhhh. You have no reason to feel bad, ok? When I make stuff, I put a LOT time and effort in - anyone would get the same results if they spent hours like I do x'D So instead of feeling bad, just keep doing what you're doing! Everything you do makes you better and better at whatever you're trying. And hey, if it makes you feel any better, my first covers were honestly crap - practice is how you get anywhere. :D
