Take Over - Instrumental (Shoji Meguro PS2 Rock Remix) | Persona 5 Royal

Описание: This is the instrumental version of this track, for the version with vocals click here:    • Take Over (Shoji Meguro PS2 Rock Remix) | ...  

Gameplay footage by JohneAwesome:    • Persona 5 Royal - Part 26 - Museum of Vanity  

This is a cover of Take Over by Shoji Meguro from Persona 5 Royal. I have remade the track in the style of Shoji Meguro's rock battle tracks around the PS2 era of SMT games, as if Persona 5 Royal released on the PS2 in the mid to late 2000s.

I’ve had some thoughts about covering this track for a while and trying to make it a little bit more PS2-like. Meguro’s style has subtly shifted over time and has winded up pretty different by the time Persona 5 Royal initially released in 2019. The changes are minor but noticeable, like his drum patterns becoming simpler, less emphasis on synths and of course, his signature guitar tone from the PS2 days. I actually wanted to stay pretty faithful to the original track and not change too much here in order to maintain it’s identity, but basically just change and swap some elements around. I debated on changing the strings to something else for a while as they aren’t really featured (at least in a disco strings-like way) throughout the PS2 SMT soundtracks, but ultimately decided to keep them in or else lose a core part of the piece. I also decided to put in a small guitar solo of the chorus melody at the end to hammer home the SMT influence.

Of course, Meguro's signature guitar tone is always the most important element of these remixes, for a more detailed breakdown of how I recreated it, I'd advise checking out the description for the cover of An Honour Befitting That Name I made here:    • An Honor Befitting That Name (Shoji Meguro...  

I have sort of a love-hate relationship with this track honestly! I think parts of it are pretty great while others are somewhat boring. It was interesting to cover though and really learn the changes in Meguro’s style over the years.

Please enjoy!

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