A Hero Looks to the Sky

Every night I look at the sky
Call your name
And wonder where you are
Every night I look at the sky
Baby, miss you
Won't you come back
-- "Look to the Sky", SySF. feat. ANNA (Sota Fujimori feat. Anna Quinn)

It's rare that other game music reminds me of Pokémon, but this one does. Nowadays music for music games is just as good as some mainstream music, and that's saying something. This one that I've quoted is actually a song from DanceDanceRevolution and it represents the composer's debut. The song's been since removed, but the memory of it still sticks in my head, particularly with a figment of imagination that I associate with Pokémon.

For this one, the imagination refers to the Mystery Dungeon series. In the first three games, the protagonist represents a human transformed into a Pokémon, and this memory remains. Taken a step further, it could be plausible that the protagonist misses some aspects of human life, and so the chorus of this song as quoted above represents what could happen with the protagonist between fulfilling all the duties in the main storyline; the protagonist could awaken in the night, look out at the stars, and contemplate. A similar thing happens at the end when the protagonist disappears to return to the human world and the partner is left alone to do the same thing until the protagonist returns to do more things. Either way, it's a romantic imagination.

Game music and especially music for music games tends to be short, but what it lacks in length, it makes up for in other musical qualities, and this one does so by virtue of lyrical content. The romance that is evoked in this song is a good one, and good enough to remind me of something Pokémon, even if in the end it's merely an imagination. Still, the imagination is reasonable, and it might as well be true; it's a fantasy situation augmented by the romantic feelings of the song.