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BIL wrote: RAGING DECIDE (ESP Ra De) I used to headcanon this to "deicide." Stupid edgy me! MUCH cooler as-is.
You are correct... it is much better w/ the snafu.
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Now I know I got it right Image

IIRC, one of the very first threads I encountered after finding this forum was discussing that trackname, haha.
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Rise or Fall - Epitomizes mortal and heroic struggle.

Future of Light - A beautifully and also much more optimistically titled rock arrange of the above, from the same doujin group that brought us "Mummy Milk".

A Teary-Eyed Young Swordsman - "Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness." Sweet. In a way, almost emblematic of Falcom's profound spirit of innocence and earnestness. Even when they're just doing 16-bit tier excuse plots, I'll never mash through a cutscene or skip talking to an npc. There's just too much heart in there.
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PerishedFraud ឵឵ wrote:I also can't help but find myself dissapointed that Adam didn't find its way here.
And I am ("I am" - geddit?! buwaaa!) raging disgust that we forgot SALAMANDER's immortally fiery portent...
POWER OF ANGER
That's the truly iconic stuff for you! Hides in plain sight - sneaks up in the grass! Image Respect also 2 the absolute impact of:
THUNDERBOLT

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I was about to say Salamander owns GRADIUS in the iconic trackname stakes ("BURN THE WIND" and "SLASH FIGHTER" are daftly cool!). But I just recalled my great fondness for the earlier game's Air Battle BGM - sometimes translated as the touching (and now formidably historic) "The Beginning Of Our Story." It is somewhat moot, as the series' next several tracklists for AC and home alike are friggin stacked with goodies - to the point I'll leave the latter for now, or this post is gonna explode!

Gradius II's comparable esteem gives its own air battle BGM "Tabidachi" ("Departure") a similarly stirring effect, and it packs a fine slate of its own. (re Tabidachi: I wonder if Elemental Master's exceptional - and evocatively titled! - staff roll BGM "Setting Out" can be translated similarly? There's also at least one other "Departure" in Gradius music canon, if I'm remembering right)

BURNING HEAT
A trackname so mightily iconic, it actually knocked some goddamn sense back into me in my wilderness years. Saw it in a compilation and recalled something, somewhere about badass pilots and eternal fires raging in space. Image (and FUCKIN WALLS THAT EAT YOU)

A SHOOTING STAR Granite-jawed gallantry with a title reflecting its scintilla of innocent spacefaring adventure.

A WAY OUT OF THE DIFFICULTY Desperate straits and indomitable resolve, no grizzled AC vet could fail to respond. Also one of those great chunky/concise tracknames ("I'm Fighting To Your Happiness"), and a potent little tune in its own right - a lyrical sugar loop of operatic buildups and heartening surges onward.

THE OLD STONE AGE Along with the dashes of mythic and/or ancient imagery in its Moai and dragons, and good ol' Ancient Astronauts if including Salamander's FC version, this is the sort of trackname that gifts the series a neat shade of antiquity.

FIRE DRAGON Swaggering "sup motherfucker?" trackname for an evilly punchy groove. I love how it comes verving out of nowhere in the midst of the classic Gradius & Salamander boss BGMs, vanishing with its namesake just as suddenly.

Farewell Epitomises the good cheer and optimism the AC series held to, even in later, harsher entries.

MAXIMUM SPEED
No nonsense. Zero nonsense. Absolute unsurpassable velocity.

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So much so, Salamander 2 could only respond (correctly) by jettisoning half the title.

SPEED Downshifting for thumping yet no less relentless propulsion.

Fire Tripper Cool and cute in name and character, emblematic of Konami AC BGM at its tuneful best - diametric opposite of Gradius III's Vulcanic hell gallop.

SENSATION Feels. Image Rushing ever upward with the vertical scroll.

All Is Vanity Repeat offender, so nice I had to put it twice. A sobering verse for all seasons of existential horror and purulent abomination.

Dear Blue Seamlessly hard-edged yet wistful devotional to dear blue marble. Pays Blue's Respects, you might say.

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KING OF KINGS Not an easy game to love, or even like, but Gradius III's largesse and conviction cannot be questioned.

Invitation "You have the privilege of continuing this battle."

Prelude of Legend "From Legend to Myth" - you fuckin wot m8?! Utterly preposterous - magnificent.

Easter Stone Eat a DICK (or even a BIOMECHANICAL GIGER PRICK :shock:), Ridley Scott! This is how you evoke ~Space Jesu~

Try To Star Olde Engrish Charm - a careening, pratfalling swing and miss, just nicking the chin of its target on the way down. DO YOUR BEST YOU HAVE EVER DONE

FIRE SCRAMBLE Down to elementally lethal business, with a track, title and stage epitomising utter deadly pressure.

A Long Time Ago Lukewarm (bwaaa!) on the Star Wars nod, but in-context it's an absolutely adorable trackname for this Easter egg BGM.

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Having spoken of Elemental Master:

Until The End Of The Earth Whether time or distance... SWEAR IN THE NAME OF FATHER (that's another stern killer)

Terror of the Glacier Bleak in composition and scene, evoking icy wilderness and creeping fear, gives me a slight Mountains of Madness vibe altogether!

Ghost Story of Hell Tecno Soft, MD \M/etallions of legend.

Like A Nightmare Where Contra III and Ninja Spirit offer the darkness of the grave, I like to think this game over BGM darkly suggests... DEATH IS NOT THE END Image

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Oh btw thanks PC Engine for Gradius BGM redux - also Tatsujin!

>Far Away Reaching for the stars with derring-do and heavenly PCE tone...
...and in a KONAMIC RETURN SEGUE, going beyond the bounds: Trigon - Far Away Manful oldschool STG opening stage BGMs par excellence. Image
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BIL wrote:Whether time or distance... SWEAR IN THE NAME OF FATHER (that's another stern killer)
There's also...!

In the Name of Father (Soul Calibur 1)
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Oh nice - that was actually the song I was thinking of :mrgreen: (as I recalled, it's much closer to the solemn vibe the trackname gives me than DMC's grimdark - also, jeez did Sigfried have a fucked-up backstory with his old man, actually it kicked off in Soul Edge IIRC? very cool arranged soundtrack on the PS1 port, I should revisit :o).

I distinctly remember those onscreen tracknames - don't think I'd encountered the feature before. The eldritch "BRED FROM THE GAP" for Astaroth/Lizardman was another that stuck with me, though I have to admit I can't recall the song itself offhand.
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On that note, more sweeping titles for sweeping tracks in Soul Calibur

The Wind and The Clouds - Soaring...
Recollect Continent - Speaks to remembrance of wilderness and adventure.
Worth Dying For
Bred From The Gap - Eldritch indeed. Track itself carries the intensity of mortal combat and the ghastliness of otherworldly malevolence.
Leaving The World Behind - Ecapism, freedom...
The Duelists
Evil Reborn
Destiny Awaits No One
If There Were Any Other Way...

MOON OF OBLIVION VS MOON OF MIND
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Here's Alpha from Blazeon. Same game also has a song called Infinite World though it's a tad less memorable.
When I remembered this song I immediately had to check if BIL covered it since I knew his tastes. Indeed, he got the game but somehow missed a song called Cursed Destiny. Leaving some for the rest of us, eh?
On similar note here's Speed from Gradius Gaiden. Salamander 2's was already posted. I'd say both songs are equally great. This song also seems to be called 'Fate...' but go figure, both names are up to snuff.
Lastly I'll leave you with The Void of Space. Listen to that intro bit. They nailed it.
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Gradius Gaiden has some of the most bloodening stage names ever, AND consistently catchy yet grand BGMs, but the song titles themselves tend to be pretty prosaic. Like a shameless criminal, I will list both below as if I didn't know better! Image

st1: Beyond The White Storm (BGM: "Snowfield") Fuck me, what a hook to kick things off! Image SCIENCE-FANTASTICAL SPACE DOGFIGHTING ADVENTURE is afoot! Stage name is my favourite snowy STG sobriquet outside of Strikers II's unassailably rugged... BATTLE OF EXTREME NORTH Image

st2: REQUIEM FOR REVENGERS (BGM: "Cemetery") In name and composition alike, just the right balance of "sup motherfuckers, its ya boy BIGCORE mk2, I AINT DEAD YET" sass and sepulchral foreboding! Even the zako in this stage look all fucked up / recently dug up!

st8: FORMIDABLE GUARDIANS (BGM: "Boss Rush 1") ala Gradius II's "A Way Out Of The Difficulty," a short but inexhaustibly catchy and irresistibly upbeat loop with a title redolent of challenge and determination. Accompanied in-game by the smooth stylings of Harry Mason's VA! ("Have you seen my little girl?" "FORCE FIELD!")

Here they come!
CRUSH ALL OF THEM.

st9: Fate... is probably the most stirring name for the recurring High Speed/Mechanical Fortress endgame ever, but besides the aforementioned Speed, the stage's utterly storming second tune is rather tamely called "Inside Mission / Here's The Source Of The Invaders." I do kinda like the bluntness of the latter half, but it's not the right kinda tune. :o That is, it's a helluva tune with shattering power chords, shimmering synth tone and gleaming anthemic hooks! And the wall hydraulics going "VVVOOOM" as you marvel/curse at Konami not releasing this absolute stunner outside Japan BITD! :shock: EVEN BACK THEN THEY COULD BE SOME REAL FUCKEN PRICKS Image

And yes, Speed is fn' incredible, both the composition and its timing - with the monster hook landing riiight as your ship breaches the outer wall and goes screaming down the drop, with barricades crashing all around and heatseeker-firing bogeys in hot pursuit, before the barrier-smashing midboss rolls up in the background. :cool: ULTIMATE PRESSURE NOT TO FUCK UP Image
PerishedFraud ឵឵ wrote:When I remembered this song I immediately had to check if BIL covered it since I knew his tastes. Indeed, he got the game but somehow missed a song called Cursed Destiny. Leaving some for the rest of us, eh?
Yes! I know you know rad VGM and rad VGM names! :cool:

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D'aww! I knew about Koshiro's utterly storming Flash! Flash! Flash! from he and Hideya Nagata's BOSCONIAN for X68000 OST. Image But having given the rest of the superb collection a proper look - I never noticed the eminently Konamic opening bouncer is named...

"Little Wave."

Now that's evocation. Image And the Loading BGM is "Good Morning," not uncommon but perhaps another nod? Regardless - ala Koshiro's Slap Fight MD OST and Sakimoto/Iwata's superhumanly mightful Gauntlet for the same platform, Bosconian X68k is not to be dismissed as resume filler! Besides the Falcomic fire of Flash Flash Flash, oldschool SEGA fans will love it too! Image
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Was revisiting the moody dungeon crawl soundtrack of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner's ost (particularly fond of the rockin' boss theme and morosely restrained yet climactic final boss theme) , when the track titles provided by the arrange tracks on the album immediately sent me running for this thread.

OVERTURE ~ SONG OF DEATH
WANDERING IN HELL
DEVIL SCREAM ~ ROAR AT THE DARKNESS
And, Night Dawns...
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Bumped the main forum's STG music thread with the very nice Cyber Brawl OST, which Tecno Soft fans should check out - but them tracknames left me cold! Checking a few pages back reminded me of the good stuff. [Character Name] [Stage Name]? Hell no, how about

STRANGERS IN TIME SPACE
THE SUGGESTION
KILLER LOVE
BLAZED UP
HELLRAISER
TEARS BEGAN GUSHING
WE FOLLOWED THE SUN


NEMESIS 3: THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION got the good stuff! Reflects the slightly more filmic aesthetic and structure the MSX games went for.

Also Guwange's Underworld Cherry Blossoms, appropriately melancholic for a mesmerising heartbreaker of a song.

I always knew Soukyugurentai's mechanistically grooving st2 boss theme as the imposing, affectingly contemplative This Unfathomable Volume. The same album goes with MARS THRUST for the last stage BGM which is certainly multifaceted! Image :cool: The translations I've seen for the later 2011 OST seem bit more prosaic.
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飛翔

Off the Xenogears soundtrack. This was incredible, especially during the game. Just listening to it now I can see Maria riding Seibzehn. This is the most evocative track I've heard since a few on Chrono Cross. GAHT. DAM.
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Going through the Xenogears and Chrono Cross soundtracks. It's like trying to decide between children or something. Both are amazing, top tier. Yasunori Mitsuda is the best.
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Both soundtracks are Mitsuda at the top of his game, but IMO Chrono is far above Xenogears. The latter only has a handful of tracks that I really like, and most of them feel like they are ripped right out of the former.
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Sumez wrote:Both soundtracks are Mitsuda at the top of his game, but IMO Chrono is far above Xenogears. The latter only has a handful of tracks that I really like, and most of them feel like they are ripped right out of the former.
I'm going to be buying both for a proper listen. Can't really trust youtube quality.
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I own the CC soundtrack CD, but I never listened to it. I actually don't have a hooked up CD player outside of my X360 XD
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As a not so subtle reminder, this thread is more about evocative vgm titles than the tracks themselves.

Not that I mind the discussion <3
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Grand Youth 2000

Oh hell no, right in the feels ;o; PS2's NA launch feels like yesterday. Image Nabbed this, Tekken Tag and Ridge Racer V, then I GTFO back home to play Soul Calibur. Image

Stumbled back over while giffing GIII & IV's still-striking CG intros. Fiery! Reminds me a bit of Rondo's poppier tracks, particularly the lounging, Cross A Fear-esque bridge. I wish they would've called this Gradius Deluxe Pack II, it's every bit worthy of the PS1/SS quartet.
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I'm not sure what exactly it evokes ingame, but it certainly sets the mood for the TLB in Karous

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> Capcom VS SNK: Millennium Fight 2000
SIGN
VIGOR FORCE


^ A pair of mighty tracknames (and adrenaline-pumping tracks) for CVS1's Bison and Geese. Akuma's sucked ass by comparison, though he at least enjoyed quite the intro, karate-killing Bison from the rafters JB 5th-style.

O-S-A-K-A

^ Capcom/SNK hometown pride! Amiably bustling urban soundscape, bang-on to the stage backdrop. My favourite "friendly" FTG crowd (versus KOF 94's rowdy Neo Tokyo mob).

> Quartet
Sky

^ Bittersweet synth-pop warmth, starkly contrasting with...

> S.D.I.
SYSTEM DOWN
SATELLITE ATTACK
SKY SUN
AN IMMINENT WAR
PERFECT
BLUE MOON


^ ...synth-funk as icy as the void of space and the war machines calculating within. I always associate these two games, with their sharing not only arcade hardware but also a disc on M2's characteristically superlative System 16 Collection (PS2).

We Are Desirous Of Peace

^ Yeah I'll bet, you commie fucks! Pointin' rockets up my asshole! Turkey, shmurkey! Cold War AF Image

> Ibara
SHOWTIME

^ Performance gaming in a word, to Shinji Hosoe's soaring howl. Quoth Sonic Wings 3, SHOW ME WHAT U GAAAAAAT

> Last Resort
THE MELTING POINT

^ A trackname inextricable from its scene, the fourth stage's punishingly searing foundry, and nicely contrapuntal to its chill Jackboot-Pop.

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DON'T TOUCH ME BABY

^ X-Multiply and XEXEX are not the only hard-edged oldschool horis with deceptively horny tracklists! Yes, I know that XEXEX cinemas be perving hard! Image (and that ballpit stage with the Big Ol Pot Pie is bent as a nine bob note!)

> DOGOSOKEN
CRUEL KILLERS
INVASION
COUNT DOWN


^ Dogo and its OST, absolute zwei-handing GAMUSHARA by name and nature.

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Strange To Say

^ Dogo's also a weird joint, perhaps the greatest aesthetic non-sequitur amongst true sequels. Predators (2010) totally ripped it off, albeit rather shittily. Image

> The King of Fighters '95
Prisoner (Kim Team)

^ Back when Kim Team kept it HARD THUGGIN. Kim's not locked in there with you - you're locked in there with Kim! Works profoundly well with its vividly austere backdrop.

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> The King of Fighters 2002 Ultimate Match
Niritsuhaihan ~ Mutually Exclusive Dichotomy (Kyo Clones)

^ TFW muh VGM handin' out new words & concepts. Quite the jam, too, with a trackname obliquely germane to its troubled artificial humans.

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> Vagrant Story
Snares Left by The Rabbit

^ Oh shit well that's not normal. :o Classic Sakimoto uneasy listening. FUNNY STOLY: This is translated by some fans as "Snares Left By The Hart," because the English script inexplicably (or maybe just erroneously) mistranslated the eponymous taunt from enigmatic Sydney.

Original:
Spoiler
これはゲームだ。 (This is a game.)

オレが逃げ、貴様が追いかける。 (I run, you give chase.)
オレは兎で、貴様は狩人ってわけだ。 (I am the rabbit, and you the hunter.)

だが、兎は様々な罠を張って狩人を待ち受ける……。 (However, this rabbit has anticipated the hunter and laid a few snares...)

Translation:
Spoiler
This is my game.

I run, you give chase.
I am the hart, and you the hunter.

But this hart has laid a few snares of his own...


This is a poor change. Image "Hart" is an archaic word for a stag, specifically a full-grown one. Stags are powerful beasts, more than capable of goring an armed man to death, as a cursory google will illustrate. In the original script, Sydney likens himself to a rabbit. A comparatively harmless, elusive (and sorta cute!) creature, prey by nature... but this wascally wabbit knows his dark magicks, and several foolhardy pursuers blunder into his nightmarish traps. Image

What's a rabbit going to do? Bite your nutsack? Fair enough, but through an iron codpiece? More like summon BLACK METAL GODS to blow your fuckin ribcage out. Image Original text or bust, homies! In-game, it appears as one of VS's many area names, at a nicely creepy juncture where alliances and geography alike begin to unravel.

> Soldam
The Faries Wait For Spring

^ UWU ^__^; I like to think this could easily take on a sinister tone, in a more Vagrant Story-esque dark fantasy. None such here though, this is as sunnily optimistic as it gets.

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> R-Type II
METAL CRUSHER
Dead End


^ IREM STG tracknames as grimly blunt as they come, with crunching Masahiko Ishida sound to match, for R-Type II's unmerciful fatal labyrinths...

> IMAGEFIGHT
Boss Theme "Active"
Boss Theme "Negative"


^ ...and IMAGEFIGHT's icily surgical bosses. While lurking "Active" palpably goads the unprepared player to move, dig the hideously fire-belching, inexorably encroaching "Negative," one hell of a lumbering techno-metallic death grinder.

> Mother
Humoresque of a Little Dog

^ Cute Image

> Guilty Gear 2: Overture
Worthless As The Sun Above Clouds

^ GG has some real style and also a few real stinkers (vocal albums, aieee!). Haven't heard this one or played its game, and I don't really plan to, but what a laconically scornful title.
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Before I even read any of this i gotta sit and get blown away by this artwork.
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KOF 95 BGs are ill as fuuuck Image Could've just as easily gone with DESERT REQUIEM (Ikari Team). Wrecked helicopters! Ralf & Clark! A time-honoured partnership! Fuck! I shoulda segued it into Dogo. :evil: Hard to find similar-quality GIFs of that stage offhand, it seems. NEXT TIME FOR REAL Image
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Been playing Shadow of the Colossus remake and fuck, that ost, them TITLES.

One of my favourite tracks of all time:

THE OPENED WAY :twisted:

IN AWE OF THE POWER

GATEKEEPER OF THE CASTLE RUINS
(always loved how this guy got his own theme, an honour he shares only with the final boss)

DEMISE OF THE RITUAL

The Farthest Land

Honourable mentions:

SKY BURIAL

- A Despair Filled Farewell
- A Violent Encounter
- Idol Collapse
- Voice of the Earth
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I humbly suggest the simply, and aptly, named "Kill The Past" from The Silver Case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdAzWRGrvAo
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I think BIL will like this one for the rocking yet elegiac vibe (almost Siter Skain esque?) radiated by both the title and the track itself.

SOLDIER'S SORROW

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CODE VGM


Return of The Knight - Danse Macabre

Soaring, bombastic, and unapologetically heroic

Tears of Passion

DID SOMEBODY ORDER A TRAGIC YET CLIMACTIC BOSS FIGHT WITH A FORMER LOVED ONE TURNED INTO AN UNCONROLLABLE MONSTER???

Blue Blooded Vein - Loss

A title as simultaneously harrowing and soulful as the track itself and the demented last stand of the mad king it represents.
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I'd love to know more about Jirurun & co's inspirations. Siter Skain's STGs combine the genre's classic, absolute conviction (ETERNAL VOTIVE SWORD) with a profoundly un-celebratory, almost funereal sense of fait accompli (Stairs To The Ruin / A Fight To Continue Eternally). They're exhilaratingly violent, fiery shooters of neither venom nor virtue; a warmthless white light leaving no survivors nor strife. Beyond the momentary spectacle of crackling thunderbolts, shearing lasers and sheeting cascades of fire and shrapnel - those tracknames evoke the sense this has happened before and will happen again, a Perpetual Aria of hammers and nails.

Even at their most electrically driven (Native Land), the mood is less one of defiance, more of unstoppable retribution - the ship a dispassionate karmic sledgehammer, falling at terminal velocity toward a target that, behind its once-proud legions, never had a chance. A purer sense of wielding the ULTIMATE DESTROYER than the (wonderfully) anthemic Blast Wind could evoke with its BURNING HEART

Or maybe I just really, really dig the combination of homing lightning, synth organs and double-bass drums. Image
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Re: Evocative VGM titles

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It's funny how recognizable Go Shiina's style is from Mr. Driller, but I'm sure his epic JRPG'ish strokes fit Code Vein a lot better than a light hearted puzzle game :D

Doesn't keep the Driller OSTs from kicking ass though.
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