"Animal" rips open with this gnarly FM bass groove that sounds like something crawled out of the arcade cabinet. Norihiro Furukawa and Naoto Yagishita from ZUNTATA scored Space Gun with the kind of industrial-tinged horror that Taito's sound team did better than anyone in the early 90s.
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"War Shattered Banquet" layers distorted percussion over eerie melodic fragments, and "Call Of Nightmare" lives up to its name completely. Then the disc flips to Mizubaku Adventure (Liquid Kids) and suddenly it's all bouncy penguin platformer music.
"Ride The Pelican!" is aggressively cheerful. The contrast between a grimy alien shooter and a cute water-bubble game on one CD is peak early 90s Taito. Two wildly different games, one incredible split release.