Hard-hitting arcade shmup energy remixed into something even more aggressive. The Lunatic is a remix collection for Ibara, Cave's 2006 bullet-hell shooter, and these five tracks go absurdly hard for such a short release.
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Show Time opens with driving electronic beats layered over distorted guitar that immediately puts you in dodge-everything mode. Bonds Of Steel pushes further with rapid synth arpeggios and a tempo that refuses to let you breathe.
Rose Garden does something slightly more melodic but keeps the intensity cranked, threading a hook through walls of percussion. Endress Train just. Doesn't stop. The whole thing feels like the soundtrack to the part of the game where the screen is 90% bullets.
If you play shmups and want music that matches the sensory overload, this delivers in five tracks flat.