Grimy, era-hopping electronic chaos that refuses to sit still. Daikatana's OST takes you across four time periods and actually sounds different in each one. "Mishima Groove" is this dirty industrial funk set in 2455 Japan, "Myth Epoch" shifts into something ancient and brooding for 1200 BCE Greece, and "Iced Passage I" brings cold, sparse atmosphere for medieval Norway.
Read more
The game got roasted but the music was doing real work. Each era has its own flavor and the transitions between them hit harder than you'd expect from a game people mostly remember for bad AI companions. Late 90s PC sound design at its most ambitious.
Chunky synths, no apologies. Worth revisiting if you want proof that even rough games can have killer soundtracks.