If you know the songs, you might have noticed that Megaman X5's Zero Virus Stage 4 and Touhou 8's Invisible Full Moon sound pretty similar at some parts. After that introduction, you might have guessed this is a mix of those themes. Well, kind of.
But actually this song is mainly based on Megaman ZX's Snake Eyes, although it also still contains great portions of the above themes, especially Invisible Full Moon. I also wanted to add a bit of Izzy Glow's Stage theme (Megaman X5), but in the end it (sadly) didn't fit that well and got replaced by some more original parts.
There's quite a lot of work in this one, it really went a LONG way including many drastic changes. The song itself is not really consistent during the 6 minutes, it sounds dramatic and epic at first and then changes to a more retro-sounding, less serious tune. Then the song returns to being dramatic again just to completely lose it afterwards; that's the point where Lunatic Virus Stage 4 really hits the stage. After that point it stays in a rather intense, yet not extremely serious tone.
So...in my opinion it should be interesting to listen to, although it's way longer than most of my other works.
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