Crunchy CPS2 guitars and booming arcade drums hitting you right in the quarters. Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara is Capcom's 1996 beat-em-up and the soundtrack goes absurdly hard for a cabinet game. "War Cry" is this fist-pumping charge anthem that makes you want to mash buttons.
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"Shadow Elf in the Harsh Fight" layers intense FM synth leads over pounding percussion. And "That Which Sleeps in the Rotting Sea" drops into full horror territory. The range is wild. Triumphant fanfares to creepy dungeon crawls within a few tracks.
"Eyes Glinting in Darkness" nails that uneasy feeling of not knowing what's next. Capcom's arcade sound hardware was doing serious work in the mid-90s. Every battle theme punches above its weight. If you ever wanted proof that arcade soundtracks could rival console RPGs, press play.