One listen, though with a restart early on. The reason being was that I was thinking far, far too much about what to convey. Let go a little and the words came forward, and this became easier to write.

So before I go on, I have a heavy aversion to writing or covering anything about Pokémon. It has been covered far more and far better than I could ever want, and it’s not ground I care to go over. Generally I’m a fan more of the areas the franchise presents, as well as some of the music spread throughout, and that’s it. The Pokémon world is an absolutely fantastic one, and so very interesting to me, and it still has some great potential for exploration.

With that being said, right now I’m feeling like writing about some of the music the games use, so that’s what the below is. I teased out some of the mood that I felt was there and I think I did a good job of that. Not sure if I captured the song well enough overall.

Go Ichinose’s (一之瀬剛) “Pokémon League (Day)” (“ポケモンリーグ(昼)”) is from Nintendo DS Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Super Music Collection, the soundtrack for Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and most of Platinum.

I hope you enjoy.

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Relaxed keys carry a subtle grandness to them. They ask to take it easy; to rest, perhaps due to the long journey to get to where they are. They fill a little, and keep it all low and relaxed, but some drama is rising.

The keys move lower and reflect upon what it took to reach this point, and there’s something fond within them. They carry that fondness, and that sentimentality into a further winding down.

A return to the start sees the keys asking the same things again, but at this point it does feel more relaxed. More calm. More time to take it easy, but there’s that drama. There’s that grandness and conviction, and there’s some joy in it all too. The reflection continues, and it’s what drives moving forward, into the keys fading away as the song ends.