Season 3
Featured on: Now That's What I Call Quality!
Also on: SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials
Ripped by Nape Mango, Sean-Patrick, toonlink, MtH
Season 4 Episode 2
Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume GS
Ripped by Kirbio, Jiko Music, Sonicheroesfan1, Nape Mango, Sean-Patrick, toonlink, MtH
YouTube upload - featuring both!
Sorry for running so late - but bonus points to you if you could call today's rip ahead of time! For 22/08, we're covering the world renowned duology of Route 228 Collabs, The 2:28 Collab and The 2:28 Collab -The Sequel-.
Its always been really fascinating to me that SiIva's larger-scale projects aren't always pushed to the forefront. These days in particular, Fusion Collabs get tons of buildup and special attention leading up to and following their release, but other kinds of collabs often simply get uploaded and left to the whims of the YouTube audience to discover. Its really interesting to see how the original The 2:28 Collab was still able to land with so many people and, in at least my eyes, become one of the most cherished rips by the SiIva diehard such as myself - it and its sequels represent such a genuine, wholehearted love for the art of music creation and VGM as a whole. The original Route 228 theme is a tune beloved by Pokémon's Gen 4 diehard fans - a lategame tune from games over 15 years old by now, yet it and DPPt's sound is still so fondly remembered.
Both parts of The 2:28 Collab just ooze love around every corner, and given their sheer length it feels fruitless to condense it all down. One of my favorite details, however, relates to our good friend tunedlink - an incredible ripper in the early years of SiIva that I've discussed plenty of times before. toonlink's contributions to SiIva slowed down quite a fair bit from Season 4 onward, but as a leading contributor to the original collab, he was specifically brought back on to work on The 2:28 Collab -The Sequel-. The sequel is such a natural extension to everything the original set out to do, to where the YouTube video embedded here was able to merge the two as one seamless video. With so much to chew through, its something you can always put on in the background at any time of day for a guaranteed good time.
