ZUN's compositions get the fighting game treatment and it absolutely rips. Rekkaden is a Touhou doujin game by LION HEART built around Embodiment of Scarlet Devil characters, and every arrange here pulls from that iconic Windows-era source material.
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"Shanghai Red Tea House ~ Sleeping Lion" transforms the original's frantic energy into something more aggressive, while "U.N. Owen Was Her? ~ innocence" strips back layers to find something haunting underneath the famous melody.
Two versions of "Maiden's Capriccio" explore nocturne and slapstick angles of the same theme. The whole tracklist reads like a love letter to Scarlet Devil Mansion. Those Touhou melodies rearranged for combat pacing just hit differently.
Essential for anyone who thinks EoSD had the best soundtrack in the series.