"Braving the Battle [Metal Zone Theme] from Terra Battle on Android and iOS (2014)
Composer: Nobuo Uematsu
Album: No Official Release*
Publisher: Mistwalker
Developer: Mistwalker
I had considered using a song from Rad Racer, but I didn't want to use two songs in a row from the same album, so I jumped ahead 27 years and picked a song from the mobile game Terra Battle. This is a game that Conklederp and I played quite a bit when it was released 11 years ago. We went through a shortish phase playing a couple of co-op games in the days before Pokémon GO, and I think Terra Battle was one of the last ones.
Deciding on a song was a little difficult, but it was a toss-up between several battle songs; this one, for me, hit the nostalgia buttons the hardest. I apparently spent a lot of time doing the Metal Zone because it was the easiest and fastest way to level up newly acquired characters quickly, so that everyone was roughly in the same ballpark of the same level. It's just a fun, high-energy song from Nobuo Uematsu in the years since he left Square and seemed to be doing his own thing, although going back to work with Hironobu Sakaguchi was nice.
And I thought this would be a fun way to go out on our accidental month of featuring tracks form less popular games in Nobuo Uematsu's career.
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