“I thought at the beginning that this was going to be an easy task. But I had to resort to nitpicking tiny little things since the port was so complete, which made it tough!” – Katsuhisa Ishikawa
The talk segment featured a conversation with several legendary composers of shooting game music…
“I thought that I might get some complaints from the staff for so quickly agreeing to it without thinking about staffing and schedules, but everyone around agreed with my decision because…well, it’s Darius!” – Naoki Horii, M2
The distinct qualities of the original arcade/Super Darius soundtrack aren’t quite preserved here, but it’s still fine enough.
And though the enemy patterns aren’t actually any different than the original, I would imagine the zoomed-in view makes for a lot of re-learning for those who had spent a lot of time with Darius in the arcade.