"Name Entry 2K2" from Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance on the Game Boy Advance (2002)
Composer: Soshiro Hokkai
Album: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon & Castlevania: Concerto of Midnight Sun Original Soundtrack
Label: Konami Music Entertainment, Inc.
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
"Name Entry 2K2" is possibly one of the most early-2000's name for a song in a Castlevania game ever. Something about the early 2000s lent itself to naming every other thing with "2K" and that works here too.
Interestingly, "Name Entry 2K2" was originally titled "Underground" and was first used in the Famicom Disk System version of Castlevania during the name entry screen and was omitted entirely from other releases of the game. This is a slightly beefier version of "Underground" but the song is essentially all here and then additional themes were written by Soshiro Hokkai, building off of what Konami Kukeiha Club had previously written. The song itself is quite dramatic* and foreboding for an opening menu and name entry screen, but again, because it's Castlevania, overtly dramatic fits well here. It was 2002 after all.
* P.S. Although can it really be any more dramatic than having someone sing "Lord have mercy" before you start a game?
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