This soundtrack goes so unreasonably hard for a bullet hell. Shikigami no Shiro II has this dense, aggressive electronic score that sounds like it was made by someone who genuinely wanted to fry your nerves while you dodge 400 projectiles.
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"menace" lives up to its name with these grinding synth layers that build tension until you can barely breathe. Then "gale" hits and it's all speed, like the track is dodging bullets alongside you. "metempsychosis" closes things out with this weirdly contemplative atmosphere after all that chaos.
Almost meditative? The S2MIX remixes add a whole second dimension to tracks you already know. If you play shmups and skip the OSTs you're honestly robbing yourself.