The opening theme on this Zanki Zero bonus disc hits like a Danganronpa track that wandered into an apocalypse and decided to stay. Spike Chunsoft brought in composer Kenichiro Iwasaki alongside Naoki Chiba for this survival RPG, and the tonal whiplash is real.
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ALARM ALERT and ERROR CODE have this frantic digital anxiety layered over pulsing synths, then PLEASE DEPOSIT COIN FROM EM flips the whole mood with its retro arcade cheerfulness. The EXTEND TV theme is absurdly catchy for something inside a game about cloning yourself to survive.
That eerie calm in 宵待ち though. If you played Danganronpa and wanted that same feeling of dread disguised as pop music, this delivers exactly that energy on PS4 and Vita.