Score: 10
"every time I hear songs like this..."
date: July 2, 2009
get ready for a rant bro... when I was growing up I used to play the old megaman games. to see such a LONG ASS series go from the cartoon carefree story to the holocaust of the X Series, moving on to the sense of depressed hopelessness of the Zero Series, to the Rebuilding in ZX, the Blue Bomber, Red Devil and Black Tiger (X, Zero and Axl) have come a long way. songs like Departure (MMZ2), Esperanto (MMZ3) and Falling Down (MMZ4, I'm AMAZED NO ONE HAS REMIXED THIS!!) and even Rockin' On and Hard Revenge (MMZX) and Soul Ablaze (MMZXA) all show the feeling of the moment, as well as just a damn good song! to hear guys like you and zero-ressurected keep good tracks like this alive is ever gamer's wish--to relive those old childhood memories.
I bought mmz2 used, but I went online and read the game book. jeez I'm amazed they actually called it a kid's game...current issues like discrimination, Genocide, environmental destruction, and the fact that the world could easily be ravaged by radiation after a nuclear war (considering the state of earth in the zero series, the elf wars HAD to be rough) are all in the games, and then you add the fact that X and Zero are Reploid versions of Batman. what ELSE could they do to the guys!? Zero started a cataclysm thanks to wily, had to seal himself away for a hundred years only to have his on body...well, body-napped and did what chuck norris never did and kicked his own ass, only to An Hero saving everybody. and instead of death, he's a floating piece of metal. damn... the REAL world needs heroes like Zero. X had to watch himself get sliced up by some pyscho after about 300+years of nothing but doing the one thing he hates the most--fighting. and then the biometal bit.
Songs like departure are about just that--leaving, or to me, never being able TO leave it all behind. it strikes a chord with me because I'm currently in a situation like that in real life.
keep doing what you guys do best. it helps people like me relive the few good times we were able to have, and helps us keep our chins up for our departure for what tomorrow holds.
10/10 and fav'd.