Awesome Music / Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

• The game's opening theme is a remix of the first game's one, and sounds even more awesome.
• Usami's theme, "Miss Monomi's Practice Lesson", manages to beat "Mr. Monokuma's Lesson" (Monokuma's theme) in terms of awesomeness!
• The new investigation music, "Ikoroshia"^note Homicide. As well as its "grand finale" version, Ekoroshia^note Kill Command.
  • "Ikoroshia" gets an 8-bit remix for the final chapter, and it manages to retain all the tension of the original version despite the limited instrumentation.
  • "Discussion -HEAT UP-" also gets an awesome 8-bit remix. Too bad it only plays in a single Nonstop Debate...
• "Beautiful Days [Piano Arrangement]", an even more upbeat remix of Beautiful Days that plays during Free Times.
• "Beautiful Ruin" and its variation instantly create a peaceful, tropical mood.
• The mysterious, atmospheric "Third Island Theme".
• "Rebuttal -CROSS SWORD-", the music for the Rebuttal Showdowns.
• "Class Trial Future Edition" plays when you make a breakthrough during the trial.
• "HYPER ULTRA P.T.A.", the music during the fastest tempo of Panic Talk Action.
• "Welcome to Dangan Island!" just creates a mood that tells you that something big and heroic is about to go down. Its usage is cut at one point, but where it IS used, in Junko Enoshima's AI defeat by Usami, is the best part...
• "Trapped by the Ocean Scent" sets a sinking feeling of despair and discomfort with a tropical flavor and punctuated by a wicked drumline. It's also associated with danger on the island, and essentially becomes Nagito's theme song after Chapter 1.
• "DIVE DRIVE" just fits so well in its mini-game, Logic Dive, that it has to be mentioned.
• Liked "Discussion -HOPE VS DESPAIR-" from the first game? It got a remix for this game.
• "Class Trial Strange Edition" is an absolutely incredible song for whenever something shocking or serious comes up in debates. Notably, it plays right after a character directly objects against you (special cut-in portrait included) for an intense one-on-one Rebuttal Showdown.
• "Discussion -B side-" is a calmer remix of past Discussion themes.
• Nagito's character song "poison -gekiyaku-" ("poison -deadly drug-"). Although released on a CD for another game, it clearly delves into his thoughts during SDR2 and references his own death by poison in Chapter 5. It is also quite pretty.
• "Master Monokuma's Special Class", a relaxing, Asian-influenced track that plays during Monokuma Tai Chi.
• Once again, each execution gets its own theme, and they are all awesome.
  • "Punishment feat. Hell-icopter" plays during Teruteru's execution. It's amazing how adding a vocal sample makes the execution that much more intense.
  • "Punishment feat. Puppet Girl" throws in some Asian influences, fitting for the shinai-wielding Ultimate Swordswoman, Peko.
  • "Punishment feat. Rocket Pants" plays during Mikan's execution.
  • "Punishment feat. the Last High King" adds some mournful vocal samples and Wild West-influenced guitar licks for Gundham's execution by stampede.
  • "Punishment feat. the Arcade Rabbit" mixes in 8-bit bleeps and bloops to make the Ultimate Gamer's execution that much harder to watch. The break starting at 0:32 is wonderfully creepy, too.
  • Finally, "Punishment feat. Dangan Island" is a triumphant reprise of Welcome to Dangan Island that sets the mood as Usami finishes off Junko once and for all.
• "Hope's Breaking Noise", a reprise of the previous music for the discovery of a corpse.

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