A vocal melody fading in with this bittersweet pull you can't shake. Castle Fantasia: Record of Elencia War is a tactical RPG with a Plus Stories sound collection from 2005, and the track names read like chapter titles from a novel.
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"The Last Smile" opens and closes the album, once as the opening, then again as the ending version and karaoke cut. "Inevitable Struggle to the Death" goes full dramatic. And "Beguiled by a Gentle Wind" is the breather you need between all the battlefield tension.
The range covers everything. "Cheerful Folk" to "Wriggling In Darkness" in the same tracklist. Mid-2000s Japanese SRPG scoring with vocal bookends and real emotional structure. For anyone who likes their strategy game music to tell a story even without the game running.