Massive, crunchy SNES guitar tones rip through "Sword of the Valiant" like Square was sending the Super Famicom out with a war cry. Rudra no Hihou was Ryuji Sasai's first solo game score, and he packed 58 tracks of pure ambition into Square's final SFC RPG.
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"The Ultimate Warrior" stacks aggressive percussion with soaring synth leads that push the hardware into overdrive. "Dance With the Zombie" hits this funky, almost prog-rock groove that you do not expect from a 1996 cartridge.
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" layers aquatic textures over moody bass that sounds enormous for 16-bit. The Indian mythology-inspired story about cyclical apocalypse deserved exactly this kind of dramatic, genre-hopping score.
Absolute must-play for anyone who thinks they've heard everything the SNES sound chip can do.