Dark, orchestral weight pressing down from the first note. Chaos Rings II on iOS and Vita carries a soundtrack that takes itself dead seriously, and it works. The Falls of Acheron sounds like descending into something you shouldn't be descending into.
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Dire Struggle is one of those boss themes where you can feel your health bar dropping just from the intensity. The Four Horsemen goes full apocalyptic. Big choir energy, relentless percussion, the kind of track that makes you forget you're playing on a phone.
But then Conviction hits, and there's this fragile hope threaded through it. Almost gentle. For anyone who wants proof that mobile RPG soundtracks could go absurdly hard back in 2014, queue this up.