"Boss 2" from Psycho Dream on the Super Famicom (1992)
Composer: Michiko Naruke
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Riot
Developer: Riot
I just finished Psycho Dream on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ - Nintendo Switch Online app which has a copy of this strange game that was originally only released on the Super Famicom in Japan back in 1992. I knew nothing about the game but the title looked intriguing so I started it about a month ago. The music. . . is strange, but that seemed to fit in well with the rest of the visuals for the game not knowing about anything that was going on. The music during what turned out to be the final boss though piqued my ears a bit early on, and it was then that I realized that composer Michiko Naruke had used the melody from "Ave Maria" as the basis for this semi-climactic track.
I say semi-climactic for a number of reasons. First, the battle against the end-game boss looked pretty bad-ass. A large robot figure with a woman floating in its abdomen while it swipes at you with massive hands and shooting projectiles all over the place. The dramatic music which seemed to be a much slower tempo (albeit at a semi-techno-house-remix tempo) than the rest of the music in the game probably would have had an even greater impact had I known that I was actually battling a virtual AI for the life/soul of a young woman who is on the verge of dying while plugged into a virtual world from a fictional film.
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