So I assume the Metal Gear Solid Theme Plagarism video was real? (spoilers)

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makingmusic476 said:

The video is real, but the two songs are quite dissimilar. Not only is the melody somehwat different, but the entire tone of the piece is drastically different.

Maybe the MGS theme composer used it as influence, or maybe the song happened to be running through his head one day when the MGS theme hit him. Or hell, maybe he didn't even realize that it was based upon another song (this has happened to me once before). Who knows, but in the end the songs aren't close enough for anyone to take legal action against Konami. They used a remix in MGS4 for the same reason that the MGS2 theme was a remix of the MGS1 theme.

They would not be prohibited in any way from using the original theme in MGS4, and you can even find the original theme somewhere in the game to use on your in-game iPod.

 

The songs are VERY similar.

I find it hard to believe that they suddenly just toss out all parts of the MGS theme used in MGS1 and MGS2 (aka the parts that sound like the Russian song) coincedantly. The MGS4 remix ONLY uses parts from the original minutes of the MGS3 rendition, and does not include the signature (and apparently ripped off) part of the theme that is used so heavily through the MGS1 and MGS2 theme, and at the end of the MGS3 theme.

And why would it be not in SSBB? Why would they not include the MAIN THEME of the series? Because they couldn't. Or at least that's what I'm thinking.