Friday, December 4, 2020

Last Surprise & Tokyo Emergency

The Persona series is filled with great music.  Persona 3's Snow Queen and Persona 4's Your Affection are among the glorious tracks you'll hear in past games.  Persona 5 Royal continues the trend of Persona games cranking out the great tracks.

Pop Persona 5 Royal into your PS4 and you can expect to hear tracks such as A Woman, Take Over, Blooming Villain, Butterfly Kiss, and...you get the point.  There's too much good music to list.  Two tracks that stand out in particular are Last Surprise and Tokyo Emergency.

So, what makes these tracks so good?  I mean they are good, but not the best tracks.  They are, however, the only tracks that make me think of characters, so I like to view them as character themes.  Up first is Last Surprise.

Last Surprise is the song that plays when you fight Shadows.  It features full vocals and has sort of a Disco vibe to it.  For reasons unknown to even me, I consider it to be the theme of Ann, the eye-candy of the Phantom Thieves.

The game goes out of it's way to say, "She the hot one.  Drool, fools!"



Tokyo Emergency is the song that plays in school after you discover a Palace.  It's quite heavy on the guitar.  The organ gives it kind of a sporty sound, which reminds me of Makoto, the badass female of the Phantom Thieves.

Is it me or does she always look angry?



And those are just two of the great tracks from Persona 5 Royal.  Make sure you grab your copy so you can enjoy these tracks and more.