The Mega CD's enhanced audio getting a full workout on a space RPG that most people never played. ATLIA opens with these rich, layered synth pads that immediately sound expensive for 1993 Sega hardware, warm and wide in a way the base Genesis couldn't touch.
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Fighting Smash delivers fast-paced battle music with punchy drums and distorted lead lines that feel almost proto-PS1. Then Theme of Grief hits with this slow, aching melody that shows real compositional range. The sci-fi setting lets the synths breathe into spacey textures on tracks like Star Terminal.
Show Must Go On has this defiant energy that ties the whole thing together. If you dig early CD-era RPG soundtracks that got lost in the Mega CD's small library, this one deserves the rescue.