Heavy, dramatic FM synth hitting you like a cathedral made of circuit boards. Light Bringer is a 1994 arcade action game that goes absurdly hard. The Overture rolls in with this bombastic B-flat minor allegro that belongs in a fantasy opera, and "Wake Up, Wake Up, As I Command you Master" drops on boss fights like the machine is personally threatening you.
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"This Quiteness that I Fear" on the labyrinth stages has tense, creeping energy that the arcade hardware renders with surprising weight. Even unused tunes buried in the board that never saw a coin slot. The whole thing swings between grandiose and eerie in a way mid-90s arcade boards rarely attempted.
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