Crunchy GBA guitars and hard-hitting percussion that sound way too ambitious for a handheld. Advance Guardian Heroes dropped in 2004 on the Gameboy Advance, a sequel to the Saturn classic that refused to tone things down for portable hardware.
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"Heat (Scorching Samba)" has this wild rhythmic energy, like someone smuggled a dance track into a beat-em-up. "Hurricane (Dylan Appears, Night Dew Trial)" goes full confrontation mode, relentless and compressed. "Soaring (Legend of the Guardian Heroes)" pulls back into something more heroic.
Every track has a subtitle in parentheses and they tell their own little story. GBA sound chip working overtime. If you miss the era when Treasure could do no wrong, this still carries that energy.