Melancholy piano lines and strings that feel like they're mourning something before the game even tells you what. Growlanser IV's original soundtrack is the most emotionally ambitious entry in the series, and you can hear it in every track title reading like a poem about impermanence.
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"At the End of Silence" opens with restraint that makes the eventual swell feel earned. "Crimson" brings controlled aggression, tight and purposeful. "Wandering Beyond Time" appearing as both Prologue and Final Chapter, bookending the album with the same melody recontextualized through everything that happened between them.
"A Flower Blooms in the Wasteland" is the one that stays with you. Gentle and stubborn and hopeful in a way that PS2 RPG soundtracks rarely attempted. Listen to this if you want proof that Growlanser IV deserved way more attention than the series ever got in the West.