The Power Instinct spinoff that leaned all the way into comedy, and the soundtrack follows suit with some of the most personality-packed character themes in fighting game history. Saikyou Densetsu (Strongest Legend) is the 1995 gaiden entry in the Gouketsuji Ichizoku series, and the music is as unhinged as the roster.
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"Give Me Money -Drum Feature Version-" for Angela Belti is exactly the kind of brazenly titled track you'd expect from a game that lets an elderly woman suplex people. "Blue Note Swing" gives Keith Wayne a genuinely smooth jazz backdrop, while "Monks are Dangerous" for Thin Nen leans into absurd genre-blending.
The fact that Reiji Oyama's karate theme gets a "Baseball Cheering Style" remix tells you everything about how seriously this game takes itself. "First Love -Jazzy Version-" for Annie Hamilton is surprisingly tender amid all the chaos.
Even the system tracks have character. "Oh No!" for the start screen, "Peapeapeaan" for the versus screen, and an opening demo literally called "Useless Transformations" all prove that Atlus understood this series thrived on absurdity.
This is a fighting game soundtrack with a sense of humor that never stops being fun.