Stuart Chatwood built this score around Persian instrumentation layered over electronic pulses and it still sounds like nothing else from that era. "Welcome to Persia" drops you into santur and tar melodies before you even touch a controller.
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"The Royal Baths" has this hypnotic quality that turns a puzzle room into a trance session. "A Brief Oasis" is just... warmth after hours of danger. The combat tracks punch without drowning out the cultural textures underneath, and "Time Only Knows" ties the whole emotional arc together with a patience most 2003 action games never bothered with.
If you played this game and forgot the music, you definitely did not forget how it made you feel.