Kazunaka Yamane brought nothing but distorted SNES guitar riffs and bad attitude to Return of Double Dragon, and honestly that's all a beat-em-up needs. The Mission 1 Las Vegas theme hits you with this chunky bassline that makes you want to crack knuckles you don't even have.
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Mission 4 on the Golden Gate Bridge layers in these tense melodic runs over hard-hitting percussion that feel way too cinematic for a side-scroller. And Duke's Theme... genuinely menacing stuff, like the SPC700 chip is trying to growl at you.
Half the composed tracks never even made it into the Western release, which is criminal. If you've ever wanted to feel like a 16-bit action hero, press play.