I keep thinking of how nice it would be if the image was animated. Shooting starts crossing left to right on top. Clouds slowly shifting right to left on the bottom. Marisa floating softly up and down on the moon while going through a stack of papers, one by one, until she goes through all and the video ends.
Dark. Light. Powerful. Relaxing. Western. Eastern. Fast. Slow. All at once, a conflicting but beautifully integral piece of music, undeservedly rejected and forgotten Zun's gem. This feels not like a credits theme, but like a theme of 6th or extra stage, actually, of a "The nearing end of the world is beautiful" kind, as it sets up a slightly depressive mood.
there are 14 unused tracks in the pc-98 era this is enough for 1 pc-98 game the length of SoEW (5 normal stages+bosses and an extra stage+boss, plus title and staff roll themes
My theory is that she would dream about having an epic fight assisting Shrek and Fiona against Prince Charming and Fairy Godmother under the full moon of Far Far Away Land.
i used to listen to this song all the time back when i first entered middle school…… hearing it years later when im about to leave highschool makes me want to cry..
ZUN's comment :I was going to use this for the staff roll. It's not STG-esque, though, so I threw it out. The music has a soft and comfortable melody but unfortunately it is unused
Feels like Utsuho's sun slowly growing but instead of being made out of nuclear stuff, it's full of dreams~ The part at 1:20 and ahead teleports one's mind, doesn't it? Feeling sleepy... Could have perfectly worked for the Staff Roll indeed~. Though I think MS's already conveys a similar feeling with the similar instrumentation...
I've noticed something: one unused track in Touhou 2 and 3 sounds slightly like the previous game's sound style, but not quite, and that's somewhat true for all six unused tracks in this game, and even for the unused version of Decoration Battle!
I love this track, it just sounds like a credits theme too. I certainly love the Changability of Strange Dreams Arcadian Dreams, not so much the PC-98 one but I guess without that we woulden't have the other one, so I'm thankful of it. Still. I think this would have been a better credits roll.
This song really hits the feels and also feels pretty intense , dark and is overall incredible. Violet Delta’s synthwave remix of this song made it even more special and flashy! Here’s the song link btw if ya wanna hear it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yhD9lThziz0.html
Meanwhile, in Shinki's throne room somewhere in what little is left of Makai... Yumeko: [kneeling] Your Majesty, Her Highness wishes to speak with you. Shinki: Go on then, go away and let us talk in peace. Yumeko: Gladly, Your Majesty. [leaves] Shinki: What is it, my princess? Alice: Sometimes I get scared that our world is about to collapse completely. Shinki: With Sariel dead, her power is no longer tearing our world apart. Things should stabilize soon. Alice: Why was she doing that? Because of the Hakurei shrine maidens? Shinki: Perhaps... but it no longer matters. Alice: They say that human my friends used to bully became a Hakurei shrine maiden... Why didn't you invite her to become one of us? Shinki: I thought it better to let her choose her own path in life. And she chose... death. Alice: Is it really too late? I feel as if I'll be the only one of us who lives through this. Shinki: Don't worry, my princess. One day, we'll all look back on these hard times and laugh. And eventually Makai and maybe even Gensokyo will be yours to rule as you please.
After playing LLS, I’ll say this much: Most of the unused tracks are remarkable, but usually, don’t suit the game so well as the ones ZUN ultimately used. Not so for Crescent Dream, though. This is such a truly remarkable staff roll theme; it’s an awful pity we didn’t get to hear it in the final game…
A Dream Transcending Space-Time... A Dream that is more Scarlet than Red... Visionary Game~Dream War.... (don't mind me.. I'm just enjoying the song..)
