Red Ash is basically the ghost of Keiji Inafune's ambitious Mega Man spiritual successor project that Kickstarter couldn't quite save. The whole soundtrack is a single track, and it carries this weight of what the game was supposed to be.
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There's a melancholy determination to it, synth-driven with a retro-futurist edge that nods to the Mega Man Legends DNA the project was built on. It's short, barely a few minutes, but it captures that specific feeling of a world that exists in fragments.
A robot boy, a ruined civilization, unfinished business. Sometimes one track is enough to make you feel something. If you're curious what Red Ash sounded like before NIKKE gave the name new life, this is the artifact.