Style: Video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: The soundtrack to one of the best shmups to ever exist
Thoughts: I love Cave. I love their games, I love their quirky arcades, I love their characters, and I absolutely adore their soundtracks.Cave is a legendary shoot em up developer, and Mushihimesama may be the best game they have produced (though Deathsmiles is awfully close).
The music in Mushi is everything I want form a shoot em up soundtrack. The music is full of melodic hooks and driving melodies. There is nothing subtle here, this music is here to compliment the gameplay of shooting and dodging - dodging and shooting.
With so much movement on screen the music should match, and it most certainly does. The tracks here are full of energy and never let the listener rest. They also sound like video game music. I know I have made a lot of this point lately, but I can't stress enough how much joy it brings me that game music actually sounds like game music.
Mushihimesama is a difficult game, but the soundtrack alone is enough to get me to play it over an over again. A local arcade to me has this and the sequel available, I think I'll take a trip down there this weekend and play it again... and maybe again after that.
Written September 3rd 2024
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