Towering, dramatic SNES synth that hits way harder than 1991 hardware should allow. ActRaiser is Quintet's god-sim-slash-platformer hybrid, and Yuzo Koshiro composed one of the most ambitious soundtracks on the console. "Fillmore" starts you off with this heroic march that just embeds itself in your skull, "Blood Pool~Casandora" gets dark and oppressive, and "Birth of the People" is genuinely emotional for 16-bit.
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The way it shifts between intense side-scrolling action tracks and gentler simulation themes gives the whole score so much range. "Satan" absolutely rips as a final boss theme. If you need proof that the SNES sound chip could rival full orchestras in raw emotional power, start here.