DELTARUNE Chapter 2 Orchestrated - Berdly & Smart Race Boss Battle

Berdly’s theme and its variation in his boss fight are an interesting contrast. Toby fox has the first note used as a pick-up to the 1st beat, while in the fight it is the down beat. It’s a little disorienting to the listener being shifted slightly. If we consider the theme to be more in line with Berdly’s personality, then the battle theme can be interpreted to be Berdly acting not completely in character, as he is manipulated by Queen. Queen’s theme is very classical/baroque sounding, with a hint of carnival, and I thought it would be cool to have the Smart Race portion of the track start more action/cinematic, but slowly transition toward more classical style music. The Berdly portion of the track is coincidentally waltz style again. Perfect, since I just arranged Empty Town, and I think I got the instruments to sound even more natural and expressive. That being said, I only spent 5% of total work time on Berdly, because Smart Race is crazy… I usually slow the orchestra down when the original is a chiptu