Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game
Year: 2010
By: Anamanaguchi
Serving as a tie-in for the movie adaptation by Edgar Wright, the game was a decent beat’em up by Ubisoft, very fun with 4 players, but plagued by its slightly grindy XP mechanics. It made up for it with its pixel art style, closer to the comics, and of course, its music.
At the core of this half-joyous half-banging soundtrack, Anamanaguchi are a bunch of hipster nerds from New York, fusing tight NES chiptune with pop-punk rock. Think Weezer meets the NES DuckTales soundtrack. This breakthrough release allowed the band to reach even bigger levels of fame, opening for Hatsune Miku shows in the US, and much later, scoring parts of the newer Scott Pilgrim anime series on Netflix.
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Another Winter
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Gideon Wrath, Pt. I
The Dark One
Full soundtrack
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