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  Darius and Zuntata Have Returned for Chronicle Saviours

  December 8, 2015 | Shawn Sackenheim | Comments Off on Darius and Zuntata Have Returned for Chronicle Saviours Share this Darius and Zuntata Have Returned for Chronicle Saviours

  DariusBurst: Chronicle Saviours — the greatly expanded home version of 2011’s DariusBurst: Another Chronicle EX — was released last week on Steam, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. Along with a new story mode with hundreds of stages, 4-player co-op and support for dual monitors, fans will be getting a new soundtrack from legendary Taito sound team, Zuntata.

  The game is on sale now for $60 on PlayStation 4 and $40 on Vita and Steam (regularly $50) but if you’re really just after the music you may want to hold off just a little longer. Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours Original Sound Track is slated for release on January 13th in Japan featuring twelve new songs from Chronicle Saviours as well as tracks from previous entries, Another Chronicle, Another Chronicle EX, and Second Prologue. The new vocal theme, “Freedom”, is also included and can be heard in the trailer above. Check the rest of this post for the full tracklist, read up on Chronicle Saviours at the official English site or catch up on the series’ music with some of our previous coverage.

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  Streets of Rage 3 Composer returns for Oh Deer! on Vita

  July 1, 2015 | Shawn Sackenheim | 4 Comments Share this Streets of Rage 3 Composer returns for Oh Deer! on Vita

  

  A little history is required here before we get to the actual musical news. Back in 2011 Sony announced PlayStation Mobile, a development platform built on Android that would let games run across supported smartphones and PlayStation Vita. Long story short, it didn’t go well and in July Sony is officially shutting down PlayStation Mobile. Amidst this turmoil is Necrosoft Games’ Oh Deer! Alpha, a game that will only be available to purchase for four weeks before the marketplace is retired.

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  Dizzying Heights: Gravity Rush OST (Review)

  June 20, 2012 | Patrick Gann | 2 Comments Share this Dizzying Heights: Gravity Rush OST (Review)

  

  If you own a PS Vita, lucky you! The game that looks to be this summer’s “killer app” is out, and you should be playing it. It’s called Gravity Rush, though its original Japanese title is Gravity Daze. I don’t own a Vita (yet), so I’m unable to play it.

  However, I do have basic audio peripherals and ears, so I was able to fully experience the game’s soundtrack, by veteran composer Kouhei Tanaka (also spelled Kohei, the debate is never-ending). If you don’t know that name, then I recommend you spend the $6 to download a lovely little game called Alundra, or grab Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (wii, PS2), or even Resonance of Fate for PS3/360 (though on that, note that Tanaka writes the scene music, Sakuraba is on for battles!).

  I’m a huge Kouhei Tanaka fan; I’ve loved him since the first day I played Alundra and took in some of his brilliant music. After the jump, my thoughts on the soundtrack for Gravity Rush! And yes, the usual suspects (CDJapan, Play-Asia) all stock it. (more…)

• Game Music

  Daytona USA X Ridge Racer With Takenobu Mitsuyoshi Available Now!

  June 6, 2012 | Audun Sorlie | 1 Comment Share this Daytona USA X Ridge Racer With Takenobu Mitsuyoshi Available Now!

  When we were young, the idea of crossovers filled our minds with the wildest of ideas, seemingly too unlikely to ever happen, yet so exciting to fantasize of the combination of our favorite characters and names coming together side by side. Yet over the last few years, more and more of the idea that seemed so far fetched 10 to 15 years ago are becoming reality one after another. Sonic has faced off with Mario, Street Fighter has rumbled with TEKKEN, Macho Man Randy Savage is currently tag teaming with Jesus, and Akira Yuki from Virtua Fighter will take his place in the roster for the upcoming Dead or Alive 5. But if you ever said that Hornet from Daytona USA would appear in Ridge Racer one day, you would have been mad trippin, and if you continued by saying Takenobu Mitsuyoshi would come along with Hornet with a new song accompanying the car for the event, you’d be off the hook.

  But life will always be full of surprises, and for those who own Ridge Racer on the Playstation VITA, well prepared to start your engines as SEGA and Namco bring Hornet from Daytona USA as DLC to the game, and to mark the historic event, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is on hand with “Ridge Racer USA MIX”, a new song that will sound very familiar for Daytona USA fans, using some very recognizable cues from the past. The DLC is sadly only available for the Japanese version of the game at the moment, and is priced at ¥1600. The official announcement can be found here.

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