I'm gonna earnestpost a bit here, if I had to give my interpretation of what Megalovania is "about" (and has stayed about in the multiple versions of it Fox has put in different projects) it's a song saying "Look what you did" "Look at how much havoc one human can wreak"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1306555152933896192 …
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(There's a famous review of Motorhead's Ace of Spades that describes the opening guitar riff as sounding like "the simultaneous end of the world and beginning of a new one" Which is a florid way to describe any song, but it's definitely how I hear the beginning of Megalovania)
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Anyway, I say that because it's meta Megalovania is a song Toby Fox wrote by wanting to rip off "Megalomania" (the final boss theme from Live A Live) but not make it obvious, so he yelled random musical phrases, recorded it, then tried to translate it into an SNES soundfont
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It's a song that went from an Earthbound ROM hack he made when he was a teenager to a song he reworked for a video for Homestuck to a song he put as an easter egg for the hidden ending to a Kickstarter project he aimed at the Homestuck furry fandom
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Now it's been performed by a symphony orchestra halfway around the world in Japan
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Undertale was literally voted the "Best Video Game in History" for the GameFAQs 20th Anniversary poll, they recognized it at the UN, there was a whole project to gift a copy of it to the Pope as the best "gaming culture" had to offer
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Sometimes someone gets an idea in their head, and all the reasonable people in the world tell them it's a bad idea and they should do something else, and for whatever reason, they just say no And then things happen
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