Distorted guitars slamming over a breakneck drum pattern. Contra Chronicle Vol.1 packages Hard Corps: Uprising alongside DS-era Contra tracks, spanning Genesis, PS3, and Xbox 360. "The Hard Corps" is a relentless stage track that refuses to let you breathe, and "R.
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A.V.E." is a boss theme that sounds exactly as unhinged as the name promises. "Format X" brings this final boss weight that makes you feel like the world is actually ending. The Genesis-era sound mixing with HD console production creates this wild range across the collection.
"Gekokujoh Norakura" has a swagger to it that most action games wish they could pull off. Just completely confident in its chaos. Queue this up when you want to remember what it felt like to dodge screen-filling boss attacks.