No DS soundtrack has any business going this hard. Takeharu Ishimoto composed The World Ends with You's OST and it still sounds like nothing else on the platform. "Twister" is pure 2000s J-pop hip-hop energy crammed into a handheld, and the remix version somehow makes it even more aggressive.
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"Calling" hits with this moody electronic vocal groove that perfectly captures Shibuya's neon-lit paranoia. Then you've got tracks like "Hybrid" flipping between rock and breakbeat like genres are just suggestions. The whole thing bounces between hip-hop, electronica, rock, and J-pop without ever losing its identity.
Absolutely fearless mixing. If you grew up on DS games and somehow missed this one, your ears have been waiting for it.