the other day I was utterly convinced I bugged out my SMTIV save because nearly all of the music (including the beloved overworld track) had been replaced with this high-tempo music that made me kinda anxious. I entered and exited nearly every menu and location I could find and even reverted to an older save, sacrificing a not insignificant amount of progress, all to no avail. I searched for known bugs every way I knew how and was baffled that no one else had experienced this game-ruining glitch. I was seriously weighing my options of continuing on and missing out on all of the wonderful OST I hadn’t yet experienced versus starting over from scratch when I decided to just put the game aside, sullen. I couldn’t let it go, though, and even considered posing this quandary to our wonderful forum, when I figured I might as well at least find out what the name of this confounded ear-virus was. I clicked through the OST on youtube and eventually landed on the track in question: “Challenge Quest alpha.” Hmm. On a whim, I went into the quest menu and left the challenge quest I was currently pursuing, only to find my ears again awash in the familiar sounds of Tokyo. Turns out that this occurs by design while engaged in a quest…
So, yeah, that happened to me. I sure hope no one heard this…