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It’s that flexibility of tone, drawing upon the game’s cinematic narrative through music, that allows the series to branch out as it does.
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Ninja Gaiden TDS captures several different kinds of tone throughout, not all of which would make good tracks for your workout mix, but shows an ability to take the player through a range of emotions. The Moonlight Duel, followed by Determination: Father’s Message, would kick off the game and soundtrack by showing a diversity of tone, able to convey sombre moods and introspective moments that would appear throughout the game’s history. It’s not just driving stage music that’s excellent, either.
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It offers longstanding fans something interesting to listen for, giving them a newfound appreciation for the complexities of many of these songs. The engineers have carefully balanced adding a clarity that gives players new things to notice in each of these songs, yet not so much that they’ll throw off the overall sound of each song. Tracks like The Amazing Ryu (I), The Parasprinter (II), and Stage 1-1/5-1 (III) receive a pounding energy from these background drums, and they snap with their new clarity in a way you’ll notice and feel, but they still manage to stay in the background. They’re so sharp and clear, and yet not so much that they overpower the piece. There is a drum line in the background of almost every track, a trick the various Ninja Gaiden developers used to increase the intensity of many of their songs, and while I had heard it and new about it, in this release, you really feel those notes. The fine details of each track now stand out, such as the use of percussive sounds to give the songs a real backbone. There is a richness to these new songs in their clarity, as well.