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Enter 2023! This song was intended to be the 2022 finale, but it ended up being much more complicated than I had anticipated (seems to be a thing with these Kirby final boss themes lately). Even though Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit is a lot shorter than Suite: The Star Conquering Traveler (Void Termina), it was a lot more tedious to cover/arrange because it hardly ever does the same thing twice, unlike Void which has that one melody it plays with in different ways throughout most of the song(s).
On the night of Dec. 30th, I was listening to my first draft and felt like it needed a lot more work to sound the way I wanted, so I decided to go ahead and move it to the 2023 premiere spot instead. Live & Learn had been doing pretty well, so I think the decision was for the best.
After sending news of the official delay, I took my time with it a lot more and came out with a far better product than what I had at first! This one is just about as prog metal as it gets, again, it rarely does the same thing twice.
My very early plans didn’t include A Full-Speed Farewell from the New World, but it felt sort of empty to end Roche the way that it originally ends, even if I had added an original outro, I felt like AFSF would’ve been a far, far better way to end the track. So that’s exactly what we did!
To bridge the gap between the two tracks, I used the first part of The Fate of Two Worlds (which is the same as Chaos Elfilis Intro, but the the TFoTW version adds a small loop of additional music afterwards), which plays in the cutscene between the phases/songs in the game.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land was a huge performer in the 2022 GaMetal Ballot (4 forgotten land songs placed in the top 10!), and although I was a tiny bit late to the party (as is my style 😜), I wanted to make sure you all got your fill of KatFL music as soon as I could get to it. We’ll get back to the forgotten land in the future for sure, but for now it’s a full-speed farewell and on to other games/songs!