Day 8: Your Favorite Soundtrack

Mike

 Bayonetta by:   Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Masami Ueda, Erina Niwa, Takayasu Sodeoka, Naoto Tanaka, Rei Kondoh, Norihiko Hibino, Takahiro Izutani, Yoshitaka Suzuki, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and Mitsuharu Fukuyama 

Fly me to the Moon: 

It has a fantastic variety of music that really helps keep the mood of the game. Especially some of the Angelic themes for the later levels that take place in Paradiso.

The boss themes are exceptionally fantastic, each one seeming like a grand orchestral choir. It really fits the intensity of the battles with the Angelic theme.

The Greatest Jubilee:

Rider of Light: 

The regular battle theme, however, was a tad bit grating. I can only listen to Mysterious Destiny so many times before it gets annoying. However, it grew on me with time.



Bayonetta also has several remixes of classic Sega game themes imbedded in the soundtrack.

Afterburner Climax

All in all, I really love the effort that went into the soundtrack, and that it feels varied enough to fit a range of events while sticking with a theme so that very few songs seem out of place.

Each song is also fantastic to listen to.

Kam

Battle Garegga- Manabu Namiki 

This one doesn't need an intro, I just want to list all the soundtracks that my choice just barely beat out.

Chrono Cross, the entire Guilty Gear series, Bastion, VVVVVV, Cave Story, Beatmania IIDX: Ad Nausea, Kirby Super Star, The Last Blade 2, Raf World, R-Type Delta, God Hand.. and so, so, many more.

However, this could switch out at anytime depending on my mood, so without further ado, let's talk about

Battle Garegga

Oh, my god I love this soundtrack. It's gritty, heavy, scratchy, loud, and pulse pounding. Personally, I think it's perfect shmup music. So perfect, I tend to get myself killed while I listen to it, because 96% of the time, I shoot, bomb and dodge to the beat.

I get a little too into it.
 

It's a kind of sound that isn't the most common in games, but yet at the same time fits like a glove. Of all the tracks, everyone seems to list “Stab and Stomp” as the best song, but I think Fly to the Leaden Sky and Subversive Awareness are far and away the best.  

Seriously, even if you have no interest in obscure, stupidly difficult/ hard-to-obtain maniac shooters, you own it to someone or maybe yourself to listen to this soundtrack. It's not only (in his words) Manabu Namiki's greatest soundtrack, but probably the best shmup soundtrack ever.

I went there Touhou, you and your trumpets.