by R-90-2 » Wed Apr 16, '14, 10:17 pm
Okay, I'll leave a Touhou stage theme for the road.
TH11 Stage 5-
Going back to games that are actually easily available in the West, I'd like to throw out what's actually probably my favorite top-down shooters overall, the Tale of ALLTYNEX games. Not just because Siter Skain knows how to gameplay, but they also know how to music.
ALLTYNEX 2nd- Encounter
Probably one of the best 1st-Stage themes I've heard out of shmups in a while- Darius Burst's "Goodbye My Earth" is close, but this does take it.
RefleX- Virgo Type-R
It's hard to classify this as a stage theme or a boss theme, as stage 7 is basically an 8-minute long continuous boss fight against ZODIAC Virgo. It's a wonderfully oppressive boss theme for a boss that the player can only barely damage at the start, and becomes doubly so because during the fight ZODIAC Virgo's overwhelming attacks actually kill the pilot of the player's fighter, the Phoenix, forcing the player's ship to awaken as the automated apocalyptic machine ZODIAC Ophiuchus.
Kamui- Heritage Memory
Kamui was the first game published, but is also the last game in the trilogy chronology- if you forget that the original ALLTYNEX was published before Kamui was. Either way, though this is a rather impressive track for the final confrontation with the ALLTYNEX OS, and is a fun boss fight anyways- as your fighter has an AI pilot, the first two phases of the fight involve fighting off ALLTYNEX's attempts to hack and control the player directly.
Edit: correct tags added.
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R-90-2 on Fri Apr 18, '14, 2:30 am, edited 1 time in total.
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