Samurai Shodown Edge of Destiny went full cinematic with its score and honestly it sounds more like a period film than a fighting game. The 2008 arcade hardware gave the composers room to breathe, and they used every bit of it.
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The Remote Yagyu Village layers bamboo flute over ambient forest sounds in a way that makes you forget you're about to fight. Gairyu Isle splits into day and night versions, the daytime version carrying ocean-breeze calm while the night version drops into something darker and more urgent.
Return of the Viking just hits completely different from anything else on the roster. Kamuy-Kotan with its waterfall staging is meditative until it isn't. Worth tracking down if you dig stage-based atmosphere in your fighters.