Surprised it took me this many years to get to this. Felt like the final door to shut for my Konami shooter journey, and it's quite a lot. Such a strange list of composers in this shooter game (Jeremy Soule, Motoi Sakuraba, Yoshitaka Hirota, Yoshino Aoki, and Noriyuki Iwadare to name a few). More people should recognize what this tried to do. Surprised me I never see anyone talk about it.
While hearing it (was kind of in a rush), I heard a few arranges I think for Flak Attak, Trigun, definitely 2 Axelay songs (Colony and Toughness). Michiru Yamane did COMMAND 770, A-JAX, and UF1 from said A-Jax while also putting on some neat original work in-between. All the composers seem they had time to creatively incorporate their styles into a shooting game, which was nice to hear. Manabu Maniki and especially Yoshitaka Hirota knocked it out of the park with their compositions.
As mentioned before, there are a few mysteries to this soundtrack. What I am most curious is who C.I.A. is. Their songs are quite a level beyond most of what's here, and there is virtually no information on who that is.
Now, if only we had a Parodius box for Konami to try to wrap this up, though I feel that would be a copyright issue at this point.
Last edited by Spirit_Chaser; Jul 3, 2025 at 01:57 PM.
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