Early PS2 guitar rock with that raw 2004 edge that just hits different now. The original Sengoku Musou soundtrack set the template for every Warriors game that followed, and tracks like Kawanakajima still go incredibly hard twenty years later.
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Okehazama has this urgent, distorted energy that makes button mashing feel like actual warfare. Honnoji brings dramatic tension with heavier, darker tones that match the gravity of that stage. City of Flowers is surprisingly beautiful, this calm melodic piece sitting right in the middle of all the chaos.
The Lu Bu Theme crossover is a fun nod. Sorrow and Death are short but they land emotionally when you're watching a campaign end. If you were there when Samurai Warriors first dropped and haven't revisited this score, it holds up better than you remember.