Heavy, dramatic orchestral RPG energy pouring out of your PSP speakers. Last Ranker is a Capcom action RPG from 2010, Japan-only, and the soundtrack goes way harder than you'd expect from a handheld title. Wanderers, Look Up at the Sky opens with this massive sense of scale.
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Born to Survive hits with aggressive battle intensity, all tension and forward momentum. Then La Valse Noire drops in with this dark waltz energy that caught me completely off guard. Ghandoar, a Gorgeous Capital gives you that big city theme with layered instrumentation that punches above PSP weight class.
The whole score swings between melancholy and fury. Anyone sleeping on late-era PSP RPG soundtracks needs to start right here.