Hard-hitting rock guitars cutting through arcade speaker static. BlazBlue Continuum Shift brought that Arc System Works energy to the 2009 fighting game scene and the soundtrack goes off. "Condemnation Wings ~Cry Camellia...
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~" has this dramatic vocal arrangement layered over shredding guitar that sounds way too good for a character select adjacent track. "Gluttony Fang" is pure aggression with a bass line that refuses to quit. And "Stardust memory ~The Promised Place~" pulls back into something genuinely emotional.
The mix of J-rock, orchestral hits, and synth feels very late-2000s arcade. Every track wants to be the hypest moment in a tournament set. There is something about how "Memory of Tears" slows everything down that just works.
If you miss the era when fighting game soundtracks were basically rock albums, start here.