A mobile gacha game has no right sounding like this. Champions of the Continent takes the Octopath DNA and pushes the villain themes into genuinely menacing territory. "Herminia, the Covetous Witch" opens with this creeping unease that the console game never quite went for, and the three Master tracks (Wealth, Power, Fame) each build their own flavor of dread.
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The "Drowning" tracks that precede them work as slow-burn setups, tension pooling before the fight kicks in. They brought back Battle I from the original and it still holds up surrounded by all this new material. Surprisingly cohesive for a phone game soundtrack.
If you thought mobile spinoffs couldn't deliver on music, this one calls that bluff.