Loving all these touhou remixes you've been pumping out, Lost remote sounds so blissful despite you being moments away from confronting debatably the most unfortunate character in the series.
I can see it feeling blissful to others, but for me it feels urgent, final, and sort of sad. I can't say that it matches Koishi, but it can also fit in some ways. She's such a weird and complicated character to try and analyze. You could say that it matches the turmoil she faces before sealing her third eye. You could say it's cause the protagonist is flying at mach 10 through the Moriya Shrine looking for answers from Kanako. However, Last Remote most definitely does not match Koishi as a character in the present. Last Remote is a song full of emotion that Koishi does not have, so the former reason of it being Koishi before sealing her 3rd eye is absolutely plausible. The only real song I feel matches Koishi properly is her original theme song, Hartmann's Youkai Girl. A sporadic, offbeat feeling song that jumps around thinking you're going somewhere but ending back up where it started. However even after all of this, it eventually finds its way into being sensible for just a few moments, a brief moment of clarity in the madness. I feel that the whiplash from the urgent and final sounding Last Remote to the strange and off-putting feeling of Hartmann's Youkai Girl is an excellent way to make you feel what your player character is feeling. Imagine this, you're off trying to chase after a thief who stole your wallet at night. You run as fast as you can, trying to not lose your wallet to the thief. As you round the corner, a child appears out of nowhere and asks you to play with her. Before you can pay her much mind, she's suddenly right next to you saying "Pretty please?" You can't help but think this child is odd, and you get this... uneasy feeling. Though you don't trust the child, you wouldn't expect a child to seriously harm you, right...? So you play a little game with her, which then turn into games. She's just a child however, so she just haphazardly does whatever she wants as you play with her... But then all of a sudden, you suddenly remember what you were here for after a few hours. Oddly enough, the child disappeared just as quickly as she appeared, and you've as good as lost the thief. The child looked nondescript to you, so you can't remember her at all. Just that you played with someone before she disappeared. That is my best recreation in a modern setting about how the player character felt in this extra stage, and the fact I'm able to do all this with just the feeling I got from 2 songs speaks volumes about how great ZUN is at creating music.
This is by far my favorite of your Touhou remixes. It's got the perfect balance of your own style while still keeping what's so amazing about the original 3:25 oh hello there Idolatrize World leitmotif.
@@ErlanGoated No... legit none of them are beyond the concept of time or else Sakuya ability would have nevered work. Also I am pretty sure the only real reason in imperishable night that the protagonists even got there was thanks to find doors that were unsealed to get a bit farther than they could. They never went beyond the concept of time as they just opened a door to exit the endless hall. Legit I have been reading it and that what it seems to me. Also if you are saying this because of VBSW... don't that shit is not reliable for things like that.
I've always thought of Last Remote as more so Sanae's theme because _thematically_ it really fits, the Moriya Shrine and Gensokyo as a whole is the last place where her gods and herself can truly exist and thrive.
I Swear the other Koishi tune and the sight of her flying through the forest gives me a 'She's a menace, a joyful menace that causes nothing but trouble with a giggle to her voice.' But this one... Someone made Koishi mad and now she's 100% focused on their destruction...
![Touhou - Last Remote [Remix by NyxTheShield][Koishi's Extra Stage Theme]](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
