Straight up the hardest guitar tone on the PS2. Dynasty Warriors 3's soundtrack is where Koei's in-house team figured out how to make ancient China sound like a sold-out arena show. "Heavy Guage" hits with this relentless chug that just locks you into battle mode, and then "Theme of Lu Bu -DW Fire Mix-" drops and you feel genuine fear through a distortion pedal.
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The way "Bloodshed to Repeat" layers those riffs over pounding drums... it shouldn't work for Three Kingdoms warfare but it absolutely does. "Eve" pulling back into something almost melancholic between all that aggression.
If you ever mashed square through thousands of soldiers, this is the reason you kept going.