Screaming FM synth guitars and relentless percussion that turned a side-scrolling Ys game into a headbanging event. Ys III: Wanderers from Ys on PC-88 and X68000 features compositions from the Falcom Sound Team J.D.K. that go impossibly hard for 1989 hardware.
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"翼を持った少年" (The Boy Who Had Wings) rips through with one of the most iconic melodic leads in the entire series, and "灼熱の死闘" (Heated Battle) is a boss theme that feels like it's physically attacking you through the speakers.
"Dancing on the road" opens the album with that confident Ys swagger before the tone shifts darker. "バレスタイン城" (Valestein Castle) brings this brooding intensity that builds through layered channels. The X68000 versions included here push the fidelity even further.
If you want proof that late-80s Japanese PC music was decades ahead of everything else, press play on track one.