25:35 - no way! i've heard that specific whirring noise only once before... Susumu Yokota! his album, Symbol: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uA1Rvgo5ipo.html
A friend of mine played this for me for years before I finally stopped and listened to it. Got to say it has become a top 5 albums for me now. Love it.
Only now did I realize the parallels between Megaman & Protoman from Act 1 and Light & Wily from Act 2. The former believing in mankind, the latter disillusioned, only for the former to end up coming to realize what the other said was true. (For Light, after seeing Protoman join Wily after the people of the city stood by as he almost died fighting for them, and for Megaman, after the death of Protoman.) Wily and Light’s argument in The Good Doctor is reminiscent of the one between Protoman and Megaman in The Sons of Fate.
Rushed back here when I saw the Father of Death poster in the new Muppet Show, absolutely shocked that the Protomen got referenced by The MUPPETS of all people
Do you think you can get a robot, to perform your role? What of your example? Do you wish Reformation to end, under Morton's Salt's regime, for a higher class of slave? Where is your poverty, Doctor Light? You've never had it. Dr. Wily spent five generations in poverty, in Puerto Rico, on a blown heroin deal, and you think White Man's Burden, can save you. I am Dr. Light's son, and I am disgusted, for the love of a wife, a Genovese assassin.
I will never forget playing this during the final moments of 2022 and the first words I heard of 2023 was Emily saying "this city needs you now". Most epic new years ever
Honestly, from how I was raised, I always loved the part in The Hounds of "'What was her name??' Doesn't matter. Now listen, the Good Doctor has to pay!" It goes to show you can't always just listen to what you're told. As if they DID decide it mattered, and looked into it. It would've seemed fishy that Light had a relationship to the girl, yes. But so did Wily.
It's a prequel, yes. The closing minutes of Here Comes the Arm gradually become noiser and more distorted like Act 1's songs to reflect the shift into the previous album.
Climb! Climb! Climb to the top of the World and as you stand tall you will see that when you fall you will fall from a height most men will never reach. "The Fall" becomes more poignant when you know what they're saying.
Heavy steps, ragged breathing. There isn't much time left. It might already be too late. The labyrinthine pathways of arbitrary sharp turns seemed stranger and stranger as panic blotted out the once deeply ingrained memories that usually guided me. Every corner felt a stranger. Every straight line too long. The bell tolls for me. - I bit down harder on the last of my rations, held only by the skin of my teeth. It barely hung on as I kept frantically looking around, hoping for the few scraps of burning memory of mine to find a familiar sight that would lead me to salvation. The gates must be closing by now. The last few barely making it. The rest of us never stood a chance. Suddenly, from a blindspot, a figure struck me. There was no time to react before I came crashing down onto the cold hard ground. I struggled to regain my senses to at least see what fate would befall me in my final moments, but even in the abyss of endless terror, my mind could never have imagined the horror I witnessed.
After so many years of listening, I just realized (spoilers!) that the beeping at the end of The Fall is meant to represent Joe's heartbeat slowing down and fading out until his death at the closure. Well played, Protomen. Well fucking played.
The State vs Thomas Light probably fits the bill as “most underrated track.” Nobody hates on it, but with so many great songs nobody ever talks it up like it deserves. _”Will our souls remember where we said we’d meet?”_ _”I made the man who laid his hands on you. I would tear him down, but I feel like a dead man. What can a dead man do?”_
The Chorus coming in with the 'not' synced up to Thomas's "GUILTY" is legitimately the greatest moment in the album for me. It's manly tears every time.
On the one hand it seems like western artists turning Mega Man into a grimdark world it was never intended to be, but on the other hand if you follow the meta narrative through the Mega Man X and Zero franchises, the world does get pretty grimdark, and robots do end up all but replacing humanity.
