Warm, melodic PSP-era JRPG tunes with that mid-2000s portable console charm. Blade Dancer came out in 2006 and this bonus disc captures the heart of the game in twelve tracks. "To the Future..." opens with a vocal theme that's earnest and hopeful in that way only JRPGs from this era pull off.
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"Desert Oasis Rem" has this shimmering, heat-haze quality with light percussion and airy pads. "Against All Odds" brings determined battle energy while "Tower of the Moon" goes all mysterious and vertical, like the architecture itself is the melody.
Twelve tracks including an instrumental reprise of the opening. Compact but complete. If you had a PSP and missed this one, the bonus CD alone is worth tracking down for some cozy handheld nostalgia.