A tight ten-track RPG soundtrack with retro bones and modern production. Anode Heart wears its influences on its sleeve, and the tracklist reads like a miniature RPG experience condensed into its essential moments: a village, a shop, a desert, a lake, and a whole lot of fighting.
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"Aeris Theme" carries this wistful, chiptune-adjacent melody that immediately makes you care about a character you've never met. "Aeris Battle Theme" ramps the energy up with punchy synths, and "Aeris Defeated" brings it crashing down.
"Funky Shop" is the obligatory merchant groove and it absolutely delivers on the funk promise in its name. "Stochastic Battle" has this glitchy, unpredictable energy that matches its mathematical namesake. "World Compression" opens with weight and scope, while "Memory Lake" closes things out with something reflective and still.
"Egg" sits in the middle being wonderfully mysterious. Ten tracks, zero waste, each one doing exactly what it needs to do.