Absolutely crushing orchestral intensity that sounds like humanity losing a war in real time. Muv-Luv Alternative Vol.2 covers the back half of the visual novel, and the composers went all out for the endgame. "Assault Landing" drops you straight into chaos, "Storm Vanguard" keeps the pressure relentless, and "Over the Bodies of the Fallen" is exactly as devastating as the title implies.
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The BETA invasion tracks are suffocating. "Majesty of the Hive" and "Original Hive" carry this alien dread that never lets up, while "Valkyries" and "Orbital Drop" bring desperate heroism that actually earns the emotion.
Then "Meiya" and "The Lost and Fading" just break you. Quiet piano after all that carnage. "As You Depart" into the final "MUV-LUV" reprise is the kind of ending that leaves you staring at a credits screen unable to move.
If Alternative made you ugly-cry, this volume is the reason why.