Heavy SNES reverb and choir samples that hit way harder than they should. Dark Half is a 1996 Super Famicom RPG where you play both sides of a demonic conflict, and the soundtrack sells that duality completely. "Lamentation ~Time of Beginning~" opens with this weight that sets the tone immediately, and "Banquet of the Devil" goes full sinister with the SPC700 chip doing work.
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Then you get tracks like "Light to Tomorrow" offering hope after all that darkness. "Massacre" and "Madness" push the hardware into genuinely aggressive territory. The contrast between the god and demon storylines comes through in every composition.
If you like dark SNES RPG scores that never got enough attention in the west, start here.