MIDI Week Singles: "Distant Journey" - Dragon Warrior I & II (GBC)

 

"Distant Journey" from Dragon Warrior I & II on the Game Boy Color (1999)
Composer: Koichi Sugiyama
Album: Dragon Quest Game Music Collection Vol. 3
Label: Sugi Label
Publisher: Enix Corporation
Developer: Tose Co., Ltd.

I'm not currently playing Dragon Quest II  or any game in the Dragon Quest franchise, this song just came up because I used The Squire as an RNG and this is where we landed.

"Distant Journey" is the song that plays when the Prince of Middenhall, a descendent of Erdrick leaves on his journey to stop Hargon from summoning the demon Malroth and destroying the world.  Pretty standard fantasy fare, but the music is what makes this moment so much better.  The first two notes are a direct callback to "Unknown World" from the first Dragon Quest, this being a rearrangement of an arrangement of the original 1987 song.  But I do love the music from this series and I do have a hard time reconciling the beauty of this music while also knowing that the composer was a horrible person.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian

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