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Like with the Badge Check Gates & Victory Road, I didn't find any smooth buildups of the Village Bridge theme from Pokemon Black/White on Youtube, so I decided to make one. I think this turned out fairly well.

The Village Bridge theme is probably my most favorite song from BW. The first time I ran into the area and started talking to everyone was while I was in the car with my family as we were arriving in Disney World this past summer. When I talked the Koontz the singer and heard him start yodeling this enka gibberish, I laughed and excitedly showed it to my brother beside me. He was visibly amused, but not as much as me. x3

I told my guyfriend about the song later, and he made it known to me that what I thought was enka sounds gibberish is actually Japanese lyrics, and the true name of the song is "Tasogare Oyaji", or "Geezer in the Dusk". After I looked up the lyrics, my fascination for this song was set in stone. I'm still impressed that Gamefreak managed to create something completely different like this, put it in a Pokemon game, and strangely not have it seem out of place.

It's the little surprises like this theme that made BW such an engaging game to play. I love seeing all the ways in which they improve the Pokemon games year by year, and that's one of the reasons I've played every game since Red/Blue when I was a kid.

Apologies for the audio becoming a little echo-y near the end of the first loop. By the time I reached that point in the song I had 3 audio tracks stacked on top of each other, so the base melody was playing three times at once. Hey, that's how I mix in Audacity.

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I claim no ownership to the pictures or the audio in this video.
The pictures were produced by Gamefreak and the Pokemon Company.
The audio was created by Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Hitomi Sato, Morikazu Aoki, Minako Adachi, and Satoshi Nohara and produced by Gamefreak & the Pokemon Company.

Thanks to 7GamerMinutes for uploading the different instrumental arrangements of this song, including the full mix. Thanks to the Pokemon Wiki and Serebii.net for the screenshots.

Audio edit made with Audacity. Video created with Windows Live Movie Maker.