CAVE bullet hell music rearranged into something you can actually sit with and that's kind of incredible. This 2006 Mushihimesama remix album takes the arcade originals and opens them up with fuller arrangements while keeping the intensity.
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To Shinju Forest starts with this mystical, almost fairytale quality that makes the bug princess fantasy actually feel enchanted. Furthermore, Cross the Desert too pushes into driving rock territory with layered guitars over the original melody.
Like a Night of Falling Stars is gorgeous, these cascading synths that match the game's screen-filling bullet patterns perfectly. The arrange versions at the end revisit key tracks with even more room to breathe. Requiem of the Sky arrange just.
Aches in a way the original never had time for. Shmup fans who think these soundtracks only work at 200bpm need to hear this.