A single-song release for the dungeon-crawling PS1 RPG Maze Heroes, and the title says it all -- "Kono Hoshi ni Umareteyokatta" translates to "I'm glad I was born on this planet." It is a vocal theme with that distinctly early-2000s Japanese RPG earnestness, the kind of sentimental anthem that plays over the credits while you reflect on the forty hours you just spent in randomly generated mazes.
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Three versions of the same track keep it simple. The TOTAL_MIX is the full vocal arrangement, the karaoke version strips out the singing for anyone brave enough to take the mic themselves, and the short version is the TV-length cut.
Standard single format for Japanese game theme releases of the era. Maze Heroes (known as Mezase!! Maze Masters in Japan) was a late PS1 dungeon crawler that never made huge waves, but its theme song has that pure, unironic optimism that makes these kinds of releases worth preserving.
Sometimes one good song is enough to capture everything a game was trying to say.