That piano hits like a memory you forgot you had. Kingdom Hearts spread across PS2 through PS5 gets a 20th anniversary vinyl treatment here, and it sounds like Yoko Shimomura bottled two decades of heartbreak into wax. "Dearly Beloved" opens things the only way it should, quiet and devastating.
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"Dive Into The Heart -Destati-" still makes your pulse spike after all these years, and "Vector To The Heavens" from 358/2 Days is the kind of track that ruins you on a Tuesday afternoon. The orchestral arrangements give these compositions room to breathe in ways the original hardware never could.
Hearing "Hollow Bastion" with full studio treatment just feels right. Something about this series and the way music carries every emotional beat. If you ever cried holding a controller, this box set is your excuse to do it again on vinyl.