Heavy guitar riffs and adrenaline-soaked rock colliding with the high-speed energy that DBZ fighting games demand. Burst Limit's 2008 soundtrack goes harder than it needed to for an early PS3/360 arena fighter, and the track names alone tell you the composers were having a blast.
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"Flare Up Miraculous Fire!!" kicks in as the opening theme and sets the bar high. "An Absolute Death ~DEAD HAND~" and "Devil Laughing at the End of the World" bring genuinely menacing energy for villain encounters, while "Battleholic ~Superiority of the Wolf~" has that Vegeta-coded arrogance baked right into its composition.
Then there's "ΦtiNg☆dAnCE" with its ridiculous stylized name delivering something unexpectedly funky. "Eternally Red Wasteland" captures the desolate aftermath of a Saiyan-level throwdown perfectly. "The Awakened Fighting Spirit" and "Final Bloody Battle" escalate exactly the way a great DBZ arc should.
This one hits way harder than most licensed anime game soundtracks from the era.