Crunchy PC Engine chiptunes with more heart than they have any right to carry. Langrisser: Hikari no Matsuei on the TurboGrafx-16 is a 1993 strategy RPG that punches way above its weight in the music department. "Sword of Holy" rips with this triumphant melody line that the hardware barely contains.
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"Hard Battle" layers urgent percussion over racing arpeggios. And "Don't stop your dream ~from Kris~" is a vocal track that somehow exists on this console. The sound chip limitations force everything into tight, melodic compositions where every channel counts.
No filler frequencies. There's a bonus answering machine collection track at the end. Just because. If you ever wanted proof that 16-bit era composers were working miracles with nothing, start here.