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Alright, we’re finally here! As you might guess from the title, this port of Batsugun is based on the Saturn port, except boosted with additional features, including a new arranged soundtrack by five random guys. Although they’re not really random, I suppose: WASi303 and Matsumoto both work for the developer of the port, City Connection, and the other three composers have all done shmups in the past, and they’ve all worked together on at least one thing before.
The remixes are all a bit more adventurous than the original Saturn arrangements, generally in an EDM style that you might expect from a modern shmup (with a little metal and chiptuney stuff). The soundtrack definitely sounds like five random guys wrote it, there are obvious stylistic and instrumental differences when you switch songs from one person to another, which happens a lot because they each arranged one stage theme and its corresponding boss theme. The remixes are all serviceable, but mostly not stuff I personally find remarkable.
Recommended tracks:
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“BOMBER DANCE (STAGE 3)” (arr. HAGANE) is extremely loose with the original material, really more of a HAGANE original track (complete with HAGANE FM-y instruments and HAGANE chords)
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“GEO FRONTIER (STAGE 5)” (arr. Hosoe) ups the tempo to give it more of that classic shmup melody feel, plus there’s a standard Hosoe chord bit at 1:17
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