Thirty tracks of chiptune composed for a modern Famicom homebrew, and the sheer ambition here is wild. Arkos is a 2021 release targeting original NES/FC hardware, but the soundtrack pushes the sound channels into territory that feels way more expansive than most 8-bit games ever attempted.
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"Fantasy Adventure" opens with classic dungeon-crawler energy, but by the time you reach "Doppelbanger" and "SCHZDRMS," things have gone somewhere much stranger. "Bloodhands of Gods" spans two parts, building an epic arc that most chiptune composers would shy away from on real hardware.
"Raspleskalas Sineva" appears twice on the tracklist, likely as a thematic reprise. Track names like "Crampthorax," "Centipedance," and "Flatjoker" suggest a game with a deeply weird sense of humor baked into its fantasy setting.
"The Imperator Clown" and "Silly Dungeons" confirm it. The range from "Lava Storm" and "Winds of the North" (pure environmental scene-setting) to the driving intensity of "Rrrush!" and "Solve & Destroy" shows a composer comfortable working across moods within strict NES audio constraints.
Modern homebrew chiptune at its most creatively unrestrained.