The Touch

Uh, so much '80s music.

You Got The Touch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, the, the inner workings of Unicron is profoundly interesting.

I should also mention that during this sequence, we are treated to Stan Bush's The Touch.

But this is a, a, a visually interesting sequence, if not kind of a, a throwaway, as the trio, Springer, Kup, and Arcee, are, uh, firing as the- at these things as they- they're just kind of, like, lashing around, because, uh, in the early goings, they're...

If you watch the animation, they're just kind of more whipping around until this sequence here, where this one capture claw tags Springer in the shoulder and pins him to the wall.

Like, uh, e- even when I was a kid, all, all of the stuff that I talked about earlier about, oh, I don't know if Rodimus Prime was for me or if I didn't connect to the character or whatever.

But regardless of all of that postmodern thinking and recontextualization and reevaluation, you know, when I'm seven years old and I see a hero character running down a hallway running from an explosion, uh, of like, you know, bizarre glowing green light behind him, I'm gonna get pumped for that.

So, so this sequence is kind of like both things for me because I've always found it to be exciting and, uh, uh, you know, visually interesting and, you know, there, there, there's something that's, that's visceral and primal about it where, like, you know, the, the, the Stan Bush is going, the, the, the touch is still going, the animation is going, and it's, it's not quite a slow-motion run, but it's also kind of, like, unhurried.

Like, you know, I, I spent so much time talking about how quickly the Autobots themselves are running, but, like, I, I kind of take Hot Rod's jog as conveying power and strength and size.

Songs like...

The Touch by Stan Bush, which I know from the Transformers movie, was used here in a great way as well.

You know, I think it's things like that that really jump out at me as why I love this game.

And then there were tons of songs that I'd never even heard before.

Let's talk about Vince DiCola's score.

Songs like The Touch, Dare, Instruments of Destruction.

How those registered with you.

Did you immediately pick up a vibe from that as a kid? Or did the full breadth of the soundtrack actually hit you years later?

And I just sort of like went hard down that road.

But years later, Matt Harvey, who's in Gruesome and Left to Die with me and Cold Slither, man, he plays that record constantly.

And I remember hearing the touch.

And this is a true and interesting story.

He does The Power and...

The Touch.

Dare to

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