FM synth guitars screaming through an 80s sound chip. This is the best-of for Ys III, pulled from the MSX2, PC-88, PC-98, and X68000 versions, and it absolutely rips. "Wanderers from Ys" shows up four times across different arrangements and honestly every single version goes hard, that main melody refusing to leave your brain.
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"Over the Top" is pure Falcom shred energy, the kind of track that makes you want to fight a boss right now. "Fly to the Star" brings some brightness to break up the intensity, but even the softer tracks have that unmistakable Falcom urgency baked into the FM synthesis.
Multiple versions of "旅立ちの朝" too, each one its own era. If you want to hear what peak late-80s Japanese PC sound hardware could do, this collection nails it.