Style: Video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: A hidden gem found deep in the recesses of video game history
Thoughts: The fact that this release exists is a minor miracle in and of itself. The whole story is too long to tell here, but there has been a patent troll who has claimed the rights to this and other releases over the past few years... and is very aggressive about it.
On top of the inherit legal difficulties finding this release in the first place must have taken quite a bit of digging through the annals of video game history. This never was released outside of Japan, on a console that lasted only a short while.
The PC-FX not only was short lived, it also did not sell well - only a few hundred thousand units were ever moved. While the system was made a home for visual novels there were a few other games that stood out - Chip Chan Kick being foremost among those.
The game itself is... odd. You play as the two girls on the screen and you beat inanimate objects that are misbehaving into submission. It's an oddball game... but what makes it is the soundtrack. Not only does this music channel the very best time in video games, it's some of the best written and executed VGM in my entire collection.
The PC-FX system was CD based so we automatically get higher quality music than the more compressed cartridge based systems around the same time. The instruments here are full bodied and really steal the show. The melodies have that unapologetic video game quality to them... high energy, catchy as hell, and they match the pace of the game perfectly.
I really miss music like this. I miss when video game music sounded like video game music. Fortunately there are people and labels out there who dig deep through the bowels of history to unearth this stuff and bring it to the light of modern day. This release right here is one of the many reasons why I love video game music.
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