Punchy, fast Genesis FM synth that has no business going this hard on Sega hardware. Gunstar Heroes was Treasure's 1993 run-and-gun classic with music by Norio Hanzawa, and this sound collection packs both the Mega Drive originals and the GBA versions into one massive tracklist.
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"7force" is the one everyone remembers, frantic and relentless for one of gaming's wildest boss fights where the thing keeps transforming. "Green" has that confident opening stage energy that tells you this game means business.
"Sorrow" and "Sunset" bring unexpected emotional weight between all the explosions and screen-filling chaos. Hearing the GBA rearrangements side by side with the originals shows you exactly how different the hardware sounds.
The arranged version closing it all out is a nice reward. If you grew up on Genesis action games and haven't revisited this soundtrack, you owe yourself that.