Sharp FM synthesis and tight chip-driven loops running on early 90s Japanese PC hardware. Brandish's original soundtrack on FM Towns and PC-98 is pure Falcom at their most obsessive, every track engineered to loop perfectly while you crawl through floor after floor.
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"RUINS" hits with that signature FM Towns warmth, thick and buzzy. "DARK ZONE" is claustrophobic and tense, the synth channels working overtime to create dread from limited voices. And "FORTRESS" drives forward with this relentless pulse that matches the game's punishing pace.
You get both the FM Towns and Renewal versions here, so you can hear the same compositions through different sound chips. Same bones, different skin. If you care about how FM synthesis shaped an entire era of action RPG music, this is required listening.