PS2-era Gust firing on all cylinders with that mid-2000s JRPG grandeur. Atelier Iris: Grand Fantasm came out in 2006 and the soundtrack swings between whimsical town themes and legitimately intense battle tracks. "schwarzweiß ~Worlds Connected Beyond the Mist~" opens with this dramatic vocal piece that sets the stakes way higher than you'd expect from an alchemy game.
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"City on Water" is gorgeous, all flowing melody and shimmer. "The Kuma Warsong" exists and it's about bears going to war apparently. "Thunderclap" hits with real force during battles. "Conifers in the Mist" does this atmospheric thing that makes you stop and just listen.
The PS2 sound quality gives everything this warm slightly compressed character that modern recordings lost. If you want peak Atelier when the series was still figuring out how epic it could get.