"Re-Fusion" from BIT.TRIP Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien on nearly everything available in 2013 (2013)
Composer: Matthew Harwood
Album: Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Original Soundtrack
Label: Bandcamp
Publisher: Gaijin Games, Choice Provisions
Developer: Gaijin Games
First off, if you check out the official soundtrack on Bandcamp, the songs "Moldy Drops" and "ReFushion" have been swapped, but every other version of the soundtrack I have seen has "Re-Fusion" as the title for this song. Plus, this is one of the two songs that plays in the BIT.TRIP levels and "Moldy Drops" play in The Mounting Sadds levels. I can't say why it's like that on the soundtrack page, but that's the way it's titled.
Moving on.
I've been playing a lot of Runner2 recently and if you've been keeping up with us here, you'll know that this is one of the games that The Squire requests/demands that I play every morning. He likes the cartoon-like intro, he likes the fake advertisements (recently quoting the one about Tim's Tomato Grinds) and he thinks it's funny when I bonk; but only the first time, then he gets frustrated when it happens again and again. Only recently have I been able to play more than the opening level in each stage, which means that I can now hear more than one of the themes in the BIT.TRIP stages, for which "Re-Fusion" is the second and likely my favorite of the two themes.
This theme doesn't have as much of the BIT.TRIP theme in as some of the songs, but there's just something about how well this song matches up with more of the physical elements of the game that really resonates with me. When you have that third beat after 2:21 when you're kicking down the stop sign barricades, it really makes wanting to skip that final + very tempting just to have the song continue without the EXTRA bonus. But I'm compelled to grab all of the bonus +'s and the gold bars because it just feels empty not to, and so the music mellows out just as it does in the last 27 seconds.
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