Phobos.

A labour of love.

The 20th anniversary of Biohazard 2 is this year, the 22nd for the series overall. Only fitting I redo and re-release this track in honour of it.

I’d been considering getting new sound fonts for music when EastWest released more or less a CC package where you pay per-month for samples vs thousands for a single pack, which meant I got to finally play with some stunning real samples and give this piece the justice it deserves.

Originally written on a KR-277, edited and mastered in Logic Pro with EastWest Hollywood Strings, Horns, Woodwinds, and Percussion.

I don’t have an Ansel problem. I can quit any time. I swear!

who else watched the mens free skate finals and DIED?!?!!?

Lunafreya: *sees Ravus lying on the couch* Are you alright?

Ravus: I have this headache that comes and goes.

Noctis: *steps into the room*

Raven

While I scrolled down I went from

Oh cool feather like hood

Oh wow

Ohhhh fuck.

Freaking fancy high fashion knits.

wuut.

I found my disk file for this from my Roland KR-277 dump folder where I’d thrown a whole heap of piano solos I’d recorded a while ago. Did this back when I was recording the solo version of Love from CODE Veronica. 

My velocity is a bit all over the place because I love the finite details of this song so much, so I got.. passionate in some spots and deliberately gentle in others that often are played harder in official versions. It’s kind of a rite of passage to play this if you do Biohazard arrangements tbh, so I can tick this off my release list finally ahah. 

PLANT-42 PRESENTS: BIOHAZARD UMBRELLA CHRONICLES COMPLETE GAME SOUND Composer: Masafumi Takada, Jun Fukuda System: Nintendo Wii Year: 2007 Tracks: 57 Format: M4A (VBR)

Full Album Download [x] - 406MB

While there was a retail release for Umbrella Chronicles, it was… suffering from a lot of missing tracks, and even main released tracks being cut completely in half (such as the title theme.) Most tracks also had low/high tension variants for ambience or combat thematics which never made it to the retail release. It’s such a shame because the variants are all amazing, and some of the best boss tracks didn’t make it to retail because of their decision to omit these for some reason.

Due to the enormous size of it, tracklist plus sample uploads are below: 

PLANT-42 PRESENTS: Gun Survivor 2 BIOHAZARD CODE: Veronica Composer: Makoto Iida, Takeshi Miura, Hijiri Anze, Sanae Kasahara System: Arcade, PS2 Year: 2001 Tracks: 19 Format: MP3 (224-320 kbps)

Tracklist:

ATTRACT

“You’re No Monster” |「 ….化け物じゃなさそうだな」

Stage 1 Prison: Escape | STAGE 1 PRISON: 脱出

The Warden’s Pet: Neticia | 刑務所長のペット「ネティシア 」

Stage 2 Official Residence: Stray | STAGE 2 OFFICIAL RESIDENCE: 迷走

Discovering Nemesis | ネメシス発見

The Pursuer Nemesis | 追跡者ネメシス 

The Sweeper’s Scream | スウィーパーの悲鳴

Stage 3 Training Camp: Anxiety  | STAGE 3 TRAINING CAMP: 不安*

Discovering Nosferatu | ノスフェラトゥ発見*

Stage 4 Private Residence: Frustration | STAGE 4 PRIVATE RESIDENCE: 焦燥

Alexia Appears | アレクシア現れる

Alexia’s Metamorphosis | アレクシア変身

Monster Battle | 化け物戦

Stage 5 Airport: Death Siege | STAGE 5 AIRPORT: 死闘

Tyrant Battle | タイラント戦*

A New Dawn | 朝焼け 

Staff Roll | スタッフ・ロール

RESULT

                                 * Denotes reissued track from CODE: Veronica

Full Album Download [x] - 60MB 

This release wasn’t possible without @terrorgrigia, who supplied the original disc rips from the PS2 version; I’ve simply mastered them by looping them, or combining multiple tracks to create full songs and time synched them to how they load on the arcade version of the game, along with setting names for them based on the stages/monsters in the game. Thank you, plant mom!

Gun Survivor 2 is a mixed bag for so many people: in the west it’s either mostly unknown due to a single non-Japanese release being only in the PAL market or it’s outright hated/mocked for being silly, while in Japan it’s remembered as a fun game as you relive Claire’s own nightmares from the Rockfort-Antarctic incident. 

What I do know for sure is: it’s got a pretty awesome soundtrack.