LogFAQs > #952009934

Gonna start pacing these 5 at a time instead of 10 at a time, I think.

160. Dr. Wily 4 (Mega Man 9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BxZtdzrmk

Well, it's certainly... um, esoteric. There's some pretty interesting sound design here but I think it's designed to be listened to for all of about fifteen seconds in between capsules here, which really makes me wonder why the best rips I could find of MM9 are all 30-minute extended cuts, because how the fuck could you listen to this for 30 minutes? It's a lot.

159. Enker (Mega Man Soccer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI268_MeENk

It's alright. It's not really quite weird enough to earn "boy, Mega Man Soccer sure is weird!" points, but it's not entirely normal either. Like every Soccer theme, it could really benefit from a bassline that actually exists, or just better utilization of the SNES's soundchip in general - I always felt like Capcom had some trouble with this and it's really apparent in something low budget like this.

158. Hyper Storm H (Mega Man: The Wily Wars)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp1AzV1Yodw

I thought that most of these tracks sounded more like they belonged in a Sonic game or something (and not just because of the Genesis chip) so I looked up the composer, and I shit you not, it's Kinuyo Yamashita of Castlevania 1 fame. She's James fucking Banana! I know, right? Not her best work. (Her best work is Castlevania 1.)

157. Dr. Wily (Mega Man & Bass)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-kEblYNyQ

Sometimes it's the little things - I mean the really, really little things. The SFC version of this theme has nothing going for it, but the GBA version has that little wicky-wicky synth in the background that just, ooh! I just like it. It tickles the ear and just gives a much needed rough edge to this otherwise unremarkable track. It's dumb, but I like it.

156. Intro Stage (Mega Man: Powered Up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNg5oBw5mnk

Sounds vaguely more like some kind of J-pop idol theme than anything else, but I guess that's kind of the vibe this soundtrack is going for, so fair enough. Given that this is one of the later classic offerings, the production values here are really quite good, but this feels out of place with MM1's iconic melodies - I can't really imagine in reverse what the NES version of this would have sounded like. It's entirely fine, but I won't remember it after I'm done with this writeup. (I am already noticing that my writeups are getting a lot less harsh now that I'm out of MM7 territory.)