Anesan (PC Engine Super CD-ROM2) (TurboGrafx-16) (gamerip) (1995)

The quality of this rip is bad. One track spans between tracks 24-28, for instance. There's also numerous flaws in the recording elsewhere, such as the beginning of 20 where there's frequent skipping. There's also a short staticy bips in Track 19 and the middle of track 10 that hurt the ears. Many tracks also start at the end of the previous track.

Aside from that, the underlying music itself is mediocre-to-good sounding, with a generous peppering of voice clips and sound bites. The goal of these, quite frequently, is to add a certain moon to the tracks, most of which are comical (Track03) but there's also spooky (Track10). However, it's often way too gratuitous and takes away from the song and the punchiness of them. In general, sound bites stand out against the surrounding music and serve to add a punch that wouldn't be there via their contrast. While they are placed well in many cases, such as the beginning of Track08, the overuse throughout the rest of the song ruins the effect. Other times, the overuse can devolve into youtube poop territory, such as in Track17. There's also somewhat muffled sound bites, such as in tracks 12-13, which are just drowned out by the music and weaken the songs. Overall, there's not much here I personally enjoy, albeit there are good parts to several songs. 7/10.

In my opinion,
Better Tracks: 7, 12, 13, 14, 17
 
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