That SNES chip is doing things it has no business doing. LIVE A LIVE drops you into seven wildly different time periods and the soundtrack shapeshifts to match every single one. "KNOCK YOU DOWN!" hits with this punchy battle energy that gets your blood going, while "Kiss of Jealousy" slides into something darker and more theatrical.
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Then "Megalomania" territory creeps in through tracks like "Psycho" and you realize this score has been messing with your head the whole time. The range here is absurd. Caveman era, Wild West, kung fu melodrama, mech warfare.
Every chapter gets its own sonic identity squeezed out of the SPC700 sound chip. And "CRY" at the end just... yeah. If you ever wanted proof that a 16-bit RPG could have the most ambitious soundtrack of its generation, just press play.