Cheerful N64 synth with vocals that sound like tiny Yoshis singing right at you. Love, Peace & Happiness is the Yoshi's Story soundtrack from 1998, and it is aggressively wholesome. "Yo-Yo-Yoshi" bounces around with that cartridge-era charm, and "Baby Bowser's Lullaby" goes unexpectedly moody with this quiet, almost creepy music-box feel.
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"Jungle Fever" and "Heartbeat Caverns" show off how much texture the N64 sound chip could actually produce when composers leaned into it. The vocal samples throughout give everything this handmade, storybook quality. There's a real arc here from "The Story Begins" to "Grande Finale" that most platformer OSTs don't even attempt.
It feels composed, not just functional. Put this on if you need a reminder that games can just be happy sometimes.