Shinji Hosoe came back to Under Defeat in 2024 and turned his own jazz fusion shmup score into gabber. That sentence is real. The Boosted soundtrack for City Connection's re-release takes every stage and just floors it with pounding four-on-the-floor kicks and rave synths.
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Power unleashed is the standout, this relentless techno assault that somehow still works as a Stage 1 theme. Silence them! keeps that intensity for the boss fights with distorted stabs over breakneck BPM. It's a wild departure from the melancholic original.
Offensive decoy and Catastrophic collision layer in more industrial textures. Not everyone vibes with it over the original but honestly... the audacity alone. If you want to see what happens when a veteran composer remixes himself into overdrive, press play.