This soundtrack has no business going this hard for a brick-breaker game. Nervous Brickdown on DS throws a different genre at you every world, and the music follows suit. Retro Main sounds like it crawled out of an 80s arcade cabinet with crunchy square waves and tight little arpeggios, then Shmup Main flips to this intense driving pulse that genuinely feels like a bullet hell.
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The boss themes all escalate perfectly from their stage counterparts. Ghost Main especially. That one just sits in this eerie space between playful and unsettling. If you ever wanted proof that the DS had composers punching way above the hardware's weight class, load this up.