Absolute SNES chaos. Classical music remixed into shoot-em-up madness with zero restraint. Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius takes Borodin, Bach, and KC and the Sunshine Band and throws them into a blender with Konami's best 16-bit sound hardware.
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"The Tokimeki Dances" reworks the Polovtsian Dances into this bouncy, grinning stage theme. "I Remember That!" turns disco into chiptune absurdity. And "Gigantic! Hikaru-chan and Akane-chan" gallops through Csikos Post like the SNES sound chip is having the time of its life.
Parodius was always about taking Gradius and making it ridiculous, and the music commits fully. Every track sounds like a classical recital that got hijacked. The SPC700 chip work here is genuinely impressive. If you ever wanted to hear what happens when a shmup refuses to take itself seriously, start here.