Welcome back once again to my Super Robot Wars 30-Day Music Challenge. Yesterday we looked at Extremely Close to an Exceedingly Distant World, the Main Theme of Super Robot Wars Advance and Advance Portable. Today, we’re leaving the intros behind and delving into the music theme of one of Super Robot Wars many main characters.

And I may as well clarify something while I’m thinking of it; the music tracks that I pick for this challenge aren’t my “favorite” ones in the sense that I like them better than any other song I could have picked. I just decided to highlight them for one reason or another. And with that out of the way, on to the song.

Day 3: Protagonist Theme – Desire (Joshua’s Theme) (Super Robot Wars D)

So in order to qualify for this entry, the song needed to be one that was used for a SRW Original Protagonist. Not necessarily a main protagonist, but they need to be Banpresto-made for SRW. And with an even greater pool of songs to pick from this time, it was no easy choice.

In the end, the one I decided on was Desire, the theme of Joshua Radcliffe from Super Robot Wars Destiny on the GBA. A young man with a straightforward, no-nonsense personality (similar to Kyosuke Nambu from SRW Impact), he pilots the Aile Chevalier alongside his adopted sister Cliana Rimskaya against the servants of the King of Ruin, the Ruina.

An upbeat theme that matches the Aile Chevalier’s high-speed fighting style, it’s easy to see why this one would be a favorite of mine. But as good as this song is, it hit a snag when it was remastered for Josh’s debut in SRW OG 2nd for the PS3. For some reason, instead of looping the song in the same place where they did in D, they have it so that it loops from the beginning, intro and all. And that leads to the feeling like there’s an unnatural skip in the middle of the track.

However, several years ago a Youtuber by the name of Alkahest extended and uploaded the OG2nd version of Desire, and he went and fixed it so that it loops at the same point as it does in D. And while his channel was taken down due to alleged copyright issues, he also provided MP3 files of each track he extended. And I just so happen to have that file right here!

And that’s all I’ve got for today. Next time we’ll be taking a look at another protagonist theme, but with a different criteria attached. ‘Til we meet again!