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Up third in this year’s May Madness remake lineup is none other than…. Popful Mail??

A quick recap on how May Madness works for those new to these parts (welcome!): every May I go back and remake some songs that I did several years ago during GaMetal’s early years to give them an improved (hopefully!) makeover. Some of these are songs I did in full, some are songs that only appeared as part of a medley. A month or so prior to May, I take votes from people on which old GaMetal songs they’d like to see return, in two different forms: a public form for everyone (posted on Youtube and my other social media accounts), and a second form for the GaMetal Patreon.

Most of the time the two forms have similar songs towards the tops, but every now and then the Patrons like to throw us a curveball, and this year’s happened to be Popful Mail’s Destiny, which in itself was a bit of an unexpected entrant in the 2015 SNES Medley.

Destiny is a bit of an interesting song from the Falcom Sound Team catalog. It comes from the game Popful Mail, which appears on a few different platforms, but Destiny is only present on the Super Famicom version.

Which is a real shame… because it’s a really cool song! The SFC version to this day has not received any sort of translation, but there is an english version of Popful Mail that was made for Sega CD (though not a direct port, as there are several changes).

Maybe someday the series can return, or the SFC can get a real translation. Till then, we have this arrangement!