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[Red The Hunter]

Would anybody like to post the best tracks of Persona 1 & 2? Sadly I am not that familiar with these games (only watched a playthrough of both P2s).

I haven't played much of P1, but have played both games of Persona 2 some of the favorites off the top of head would be

For Innocent Sin

P2:!S PS1 Opening
Maya's theme
Knights of the Holy Spear
P2:IS Boss theme

Spoiler

Maya's Death

P2:IS Final Boss theme

For Eternal Punishment

Maya's Theme for EP
Abandoned Factory
Aoba Park
Morimoto Hospital - Sanitarium
Monad Mandala
P2:EP Final Boss theme
Change Your Way

 

[Acid08]

I like how P2 had different songs playing in the velvet room. As much as I like Poem of Everyone's Soul it gets old listening to it over and over.

I specially like Erik Satie's Gymnopedie #1.

I like the remix of Poem that plays during Marie's awful poetry segments in P4G.

Also the nighttime song and the new opening song are pretty legit.

Sorry I've got P4G on the brain hard right. Been playing it at least 6 hours a day since getting my Vita on Monday.

 

[tokyopunchout]

Every day is great at your Junes! ~

sometimes i feel like you guys just get me.

 

[Owwari]

oh maaaan this song is so good TT_TT

Off-topic but your Avatar needs some Megane goodness.

 

[Slashlen]

I've stayed mostly sane through this whole thing, but I'm beginning to lose it.

So close now!

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Similar to the very first screen that the stream showed:

Now it just has this:

I'm gonna guess what it says knowing nothing of the Japanese language: "Shit's starting soon."

 

[demidar]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

 

[Narroo]

Similar to the very first screen that the stream showed:

What's it say, anyone know?

 

[Faustek]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

Part of the charm.

 

[Honey Bunny]

Get whoever they think sings best for the song. Engrish or English, doesn't matter.

 

[laika09]

Now loading.

 

[Narroo]

I think it might be saying "Please wait awhile." No sure though.

 

[YosemiteHam]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

Engrish is definitely part of the charm for me. It would feel a little weird if someone fluent in english sung on some persona tracks, but it's nothing I couldn't get used to.

 

[laika09]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

Proper English would be awkward.

 

[Red The Hunter]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

As long as they get someone who sings good and have it flow nicely I'm good with that in English or Engrish.

 

[buddha0991]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYH-H9FYt0

You guys who never played Persona 1 or 2 but played P3FES or P3P may know SOME Persona 1 and 2 songs already, BEHOLD:
(Well, I'll use the P3 versions, and the updated versions of the P2 songs in the PSP versions, even though some of them are worse.)

Maya's Theme:

P3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro8Vjer60VE
P2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPpW0AORxc

The Snow Queen:

P3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEYW3QF7oQ
P1 PS1 Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHgXFk6V20

Time Castle:

P3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx9P_yhw2TE
P2IS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY7euXMRq4Y
P2EP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHV9abEA9B0

Persona:

P3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpVZgGd7RiE
P1 Remake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R_tkqiG6fs
P1 Remake Another Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw6LlSsl7uM

Pretty neat how they are all completely different than the original songs.

 

[Faustek]

What's it say, anyone know?

Please wait

It actually says

Please wait, curtains (something)

Then

Please wait patiently

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Yep, guess it was maintenance or something because it's back to normal.

 

[Sophia]

Yeah it was maintenance, basically.

 

[Soriku]

They actually decided to let Ryota Kozuka compose it. Hope you like 80s synth!
(This would be amazing.)

Kozuka will probably compose a few tracks like he did for P4.

More jazz influences in the Persona soundtrack, please - Meguro does pieces with bits intermixed so well, but having a more overtly jazz-influenced soundtrack would tickle me to a T

Spoiler

eddie

.

Hope you played the Raidou games then (especially 2).

 

[Steel]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

If they're in english anyway it's a waste of a budget.

 

[Red The Hunter]

Okay's maybe that's why It was having trouble loading the Stream for me.

 

[Faustek]

Forgive my lack of knowledge and derailing from the topic at hand but I must ask.


Why shouldn't I trust duckroll?

 

[AutumnAve]

Would anybody like to post the best tracks of Persona 1 & 2? Sadly I am not that familiar with these games (only watched a playthrough of both P2s).

okay, here are my faves.

Seven Sister High Theme A Here's the original version
The Battle theme
Main Theme A
Maya's Theme
And for giggles the awesome, godly PSP OP I

 

[Slashlen]

Forgive my lack of knowledge and derailing from the topic at hand but I must ask.


Why shouldn't I trust duckroll?

Because the name is only one letter away from ducktroll?

 

[Snakeyes]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

Atlus should consider it with dat Sega Sammy money. I thought having proper English lyrics worked really well in Eternal Punishment.

 

[LX_Theo]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

I think it could go either way. The quality of the music is what matters most. So, having the right singer instead of more understandable lyrics is more important.

 

[demidar]

You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYH-H9FYt0

Wow that sounds great.

 

[Soriku]

What do you guys think of actually getting a person fluent in English to sing songs that are mostly in English? Or is Engrish part of the charm?

Well as far as P3 goes Lotus Juice's rapping is pretty fluent. It would work just fine as long as the songs were composed with proper English in mind. For example, I don't think the Engrish songs in P3/P4 would flow as well if the singers were singing in fluent English.

Also Change Your Way is awesome.

 

[AuthenticM]

Well as far as P3 goes Lotus Juice's rapping is pretty fluent.

LOL

edit: I subscribe to a perfectly bilingual singer this time around, or a native anglophone. It's something I wanted even back before P4 was released.

 

[Soriku]

LOL

???

It sure doesn't sound Engrishy.

 

[Jeb]

I always thought making sense of the misheard engrish was half the fun of it.

I mean come on, didn't you guys smile every time you hear..."YOUR AFFECTION... YOUR AFFECTION....TO KICK A PUPPY!"
well, if you didn't before, you're gonna start now.

Don't forget "CALIFORNIA POTATO POWERS! KETCHUP RAINING ALL OVER THE WOOORLD!"

Good times...good times.

 

[AuthenticM]

???

It sure doesn't sound Engrishy.

Dude.

edit: this was my reaction, basically, when I first listened to it: http://youtu.be/fIfNTXprWp0?t=13m10s

I guess there are different levels of "engrishness", and there are some games that are worse about it than P3, but still, I demand better from P5.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Dammit, I can't find one of the best dungeon themes in the entire series that is Kasugayam High (Innocent Sin - PSP). I can only find the original version that really isn't as good. Guess that Youtube Persona purge was particularly felt for P1 and P2 OST.

I agree, the remake version is great.
I think this is it.

I like how P2 had different songs playing in the velvet room. As much as I like Poem of Everyone's Soul it gets old listening to it over and over.

I specially like Erik Satie's Gymnopedie #1.

It was also in Flower, Sun, and Rain.

 

[Steel]

I always thought making sense of the misheard engrish was half the fun of it.

I mean come on, didn't you guys smile every time you hear..."YOUR AFFECTION... YOUR AFFECTION....TO KICK A PUPPY!"
well, if you didn't before, you're gonna start now.

Don't forget "CALIFORNIA POTATO POWERS! KETCHUP RAINING ALL OVER THE WOOORLD!"

Good times...good times.

I actually thought Burn my dread was Burn myself. Seriously, I don't even understand how they made it sound like that.

 

[koutoru]

Are we expecting the graphics for Persona 5 to be at least as good as Catherine's?

I understand that they're not using the same engine so it might look slightly different.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

I agree, the remake version is great.
I think this is it.

Nope, that's still definitely the original version. It's obvious since it sounds distorted and WAY less good. I'm going to turn on P2:IS just to listen to it now.

 

[demidar]

Well as far as P3 goes Lotus Juice's rapping is pretty fluent. It would work just fine as long as the songs were composed with proper English in mind. For example, I don't think the Engrish songs in P3/P4 would flow as well if the singers were singing in fluent English.

Also Change Your Way is awesome.

I think I know what you mean. There's a certain logic to the lyrics (with instruments supporting those lyrics) of a person who isn't fluent in English, they make these weird leaps in pronunciation to try and get certain words to rhyme which contributes to the unique identity of those songs. Since the music is supporting the weird lyrics they also sound a bit unique.

Argh I am not good with musical terms, I sound like an uncultured swine.

 

[Steel]

Are we expecting the graphics for Persona 5 to be at least as good as Catherine's?

I understand that they're not using the same engine so it might look slightly different.

They opted out of catherines engine for something that suited Persona more(an in-house engine), right? so I expect it to be at least catherine level graphics.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Nope, that's still definitely the original version. It's obvious since it sounds distorted and WAY less good. I'm going to turn on P2:IS just to listen to it now.

I have the OST. I can reupload it if necessary.

 

[Jeb]

I actually thought Burn my dread was Burn myself. Seriously, I don't even understand how they made it sound like that.

Dude, everytime you ask a person to sing the lyrics of either P3 or 4, it always changes the way you hear it from then on, also... we normally like to interpret it as Burn my Bread.

 

[LX_Theo]

Are we expecting the graphics for Persona 5 to be at least as good as Catherine's?

I understand that they're not using the same engine so it might look slightly different.

Depends on the system. On PS3 or above, certainly. On 3DS or iOS (shudders), definitely not. On Vita, close but maybe not up to snuff.

 

[Acid08]

Are we expecting the graphics for Persona 5 to be at least as good as Catherine's?

I understand that they're not using the same engine so it might look slightly different.

Depends on the platform. My biggest hope is that the in game character models reflect the characters' actual appearances instead of the simplified PS2 models.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Depends on the platform. My biggest hope is that the in game character models reflect the characters actual appearance instead of the simplified PS2 models.

I have the OST. I can reupload it if necessary.

It's a bummer that so much of it got removed from Youtube. It'd probably be too much effort or whatever for you to upload all of it, though.

Still, listening to the PSP's version of Kasugayama High feels good.

 

[CrazyDude]

That's how Kanji smiles.

 

[Thoraxes]

They actually decided to let Ryota Kozuka compose it. Hope you like 80s synth!
(This would be amazing.)

Oh man, if this happened I would be so happy. SMTIV's OST is one of the best for sure. Such outstanding compositions for a game, and it nails the atmosphere so perfectly.

 

[Steel]

Dude, everytime you ask a person to sing the lyrics of either P3 or 4, it always changes the way you hear it from then on, also... we normally like to interpret it as Burn my Bread.

You know, I often wonder if they just have singers spit out a bunch of syllables and then make up the lyrics after the fact to somewhat fit the sounds.

 

[cj_iwakura]

It's a bummer that so much of it got removed from Youtube. It'd probably be too much effort or whatever for you to upload all of it, though.

Still, listening to the PSP's version of Kasugayama High feels good.

Nah, just that track. Unless people start clamoring for all of it.


As an aside, I hated the nicknames for the school in both translations, K'assu-gay-ama was just dumb, and Cuss High was silly.

 

[AuthenticM]

You know what ? I can't believe that it didn't hit me before, but goddamn is it disappointing that Heartsdale has broken up, because they would be perfect for Persona music.

See this

This is fluent English from native Japanese. This is the level of quality I am demanding.

 

[buddha0991]

Nah, just that track. Unless people start clamoring for all of it.


As an aside, I hated the nicknames for the school in both translations, K'assu-gay-ama was just dumb, and Cuss High was silly.

always thought Ass High worked, or Assu High since they called it Kasu High.