Mega Man 2 - The Neon Beginning (Title theme remix)

[MartinH]

https://youtu.be/_Nfd1jO1JQ4

Since my completion of Mega Man 3 Full Remixed Soundtrack I often thinking about doing something like that again - one complete soundtrack. During my work on this remix I really got fired up about doing that all over again.

Mega Man 2 is the MM game I played the most as a kid, even more than MM3 I think. Despite that I totally forgot what order to bring those robot masters down. But damned, did they have some cool themes. Anyway, I wanted the first section to sound a bit like a 80s creamy and romantic scene, thought a lot about colors as pink, deep blue, neon purple and so on.

So from the opening to the title, a SFX sounding like a screaming machine, just like some kind of aerial strike alarm from the future, then go straight to the original title theme. I believe that's one of the most classic themes in the whole Mega Man franchise. After that I made some spinoff to the title theme with a close variation at half tempo (I need those half tempo sections in ALL of my remixes) ending up with a more atmospheric and delicate melancholic section (I think the chord progression is inspired by some of Dream Theater's work).

Then I bring that original section that I can't remember ever listening to, I guess I was to eager to press start and begin the actual gameplay that I missed that cool part of the song. Continuing as the original, however instead of end the song just like the original - I inserted a short pause and took my MM3 title theme ending and put it in here too ending the whole song with that long string chord.

For you who's interested, since the Snow Mountain remix from SM64 I have lowered the frequency of my music from 440 hz to 432 hz to get closer to the natural frequencies of earth and at what music in the passed was set. 432 hz have a lot of sayings and theories, but one thing I can say for certain is that when listening to something at 432 hz instead of 440 hz, I feel way more relaxed and balanced. Can you feel any difference?