Crunchy, NES-throwback chiptunes that hit way harder than they have any right to. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is Iga's love letter to Castlevania III, and the soundtrack commits to that 8-bit energy with zero hesitation.
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Desperado's Death Parade has this frantic pulse that makes every platforming section feel like you're outrunning death itself. Frigid Waltz slows things down with an icy melody that somehow sounds elegant coming out of fake hardware limitations.
And Lunatic Princess goes absolutely feral for the final stretch. The whole thing bounces between gothic dread and action-stage adrenaline. Never sits still long enough to get repetitive, just keeps throwing new moods at you.
Perfect for anyone who wants to feel like it is 1989 and they just found a cartridge that slaps.