Bright 16-bit fanfares crashing into early Windows CD-quality arrangements. Falcom Music Sampler '96 is a promotional compilation pulling from SNES and PC titles across the Falcom catalog, and it covers a wild range. "TERMINATION" goes hard with that mid-90s Falcom intensity, while "Legend of Heroes I Field" and "Legend of Heroes II Plains" give you the overworld wandering vibes back to back.
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There's something about "Golden Dagger, Silver Dagger" that just screams 1996 Falcom, all melodic and earnest. The sampler jumps between RPG battle themes and softer story tracks without much warning. Feels like flipping through a Falcom catalog in music form.
If you want a crash course in what Falcom was doing in the SNES and early PC era, just press play.