


It's anything but peaceful with mechanical sounds being played over it, giving off a chaotic mood over the now horribly-polluted zone. If you were expecting something peaceful like the Present, Past and Good Future, you're dead wrong. Tidal Tempest's Bad Future is a major contender for this.Not helping matters is that the "Yay!" sound from the other themes is slowed down and distorted in a way that sounds like they're dying. In contrast to the upbeat and welcoming themes of the Past, Present and Good Future themes, the bad future instead uses loud, mechanical noises, making it sound more like a boss theme for a scary looking machine. The theme for Palmtree Panic's Bad Future really emphasizes on the "panic".The Japanese bad future themes are more on the threatening side by twisting the melodies of its own cute, upbeat themes making the mechanical tone all the more jarring.Both soundtracks are terrifying in their own ways. If the demented environments and mass of enemies doesn't make it clear that the zone has been ruined by Eggman, the music sure does. The Bad Future themes in both versions.The Final Boss theme, while sounding the same as the boss theme at a normal glance, is even worse with added emphasis of its creepiness in the background, as well as the disturbing, slow laugh played just at the end before it loops. It sounds like Eggman himself has gone insane and just wants to outright kill Sonic. The American boss battle music is just as bad with the creepy laughs placed throughout it and its manically chaotic theme.(No wonder Sonic.exe decided to reuse it.) Sure, it's only for a few seconds, but is it ever disturbing. On top of being played by disturbing pipe organs, hearing the mad doctor himself laughing maniacally and metallic scratching sounds, presumably from Metal Sonic himself, being played on top of it only makes it more unnerving to hear Sonic's defeat.
