Kenji Ito came back to rearrange the Final Fantasy Legend III score for DS and honestly went harder than anyone expected. SaGa 3: Shadow or Light sounds enormous for a handheld, squeezing real orchestral weight out of the hardware.
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"Divine Battle" has this frantic string layering that keeps escalating until you forget you're playing on a tiny screen. "Eat the Meat" is still absurdly named and still slaps. The way "Lunacy" shifts from tense exploration into something genuinely unsettling.
"Holding Back Tears" is the kind of quiet piano moment that hits different after twenty hours of time-hopping. If you thought DS soundtracks couldn't compete with the big consoles, this one will change your mind fast.