Crunchy NES waveforms doing things the Famicom was barely supposed to do. Lagrange Point is a Konami RPG that used a special VRC7 FM synthesis chip, and this 2015 soundtrack reissue preserves all of it. "Searching for Stolte" has this moody town vibe with harmonics no other NES game could touch.
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"Warriors of Sorrow" turns a mid-boss fight into something genuinely emotional. And "TUM'S BOOGIE" goes full funk on 8-bit hardware. The chip produces sounds closer to Genesis than NES. It is wild hearing FM synthesis come out of a Famicom cartridge.
"City of Birthday" and "Wandering journey" prove Konami's sound team was operating on another level entirely back then. If you think you have heard everything the NES can do, this will prove you wrong.