Classical music repurposed as the backdrop for a brutal platformer, and it works way better than it should. The End Is Nigh from Edmund McMillen pairs each world with a different Romantic-era piece, so you're dying over and over to Dvořák's New World Symphony and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
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The vibe is absurd and perfect. "Flight of the Bumblebee" scoring a machine-themed gauntlet is comedy and chaos in equal measure. Then "Night on Bald Mountain" hits during Golgotha and suddenly the difficulty spike feels earned, almost theatrical.
Satie's Gnossienne on the title screen setting this melancholy tone before everything goes sideways. If you like punishing indie platformers, dying to classical bangers makes the pain taste better.