Bluesy guitar licks on a Sega Saturn, and somehow it works perfectly. Mr. Bones had Ronnie Montrose writing actual rock and blues tracks for a skeleton platformer, which is the most 1996 thing imaginable. MANIFESTO opens with this raw electric riff that has no business sounding that good on Saturn hardware, while THE VILLAGE drops into something almost folksy and contemplative.
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DON'T THINK PLAY feels like a mantra set to music. The whole soundtrack swings between spooky atmosphere on tracks like SHADOW MONSTER and MAUSOLEUM, then pivots to genuine singer-songwriter territory with IN THIS WORLD.
A skeleton playing guitar to save his soul... If you ever wanted proof that the Saturn had flavor nobody else was touching, this is where you start.