PS1 MIDI-synth charm cranked all the way up on this one. Sonata came out in 1999 and the soundtrack has that very specific late-90s PlayStation RPG sound where everything feels slightly dreamy and slightly off. Palace of the Gods opens with these grand synth pads that are doing a lot with limited hardware, and Distant Memory pulls back into something more melancholic with these reverb-heavy piano tones.
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Fairy Land does exactly what you'd expect but adds these unexpected rhythmic shifts that keep it interesting. The dungeon tracks go surprisingly hard. Jet Black Paradise has this tension that the PS1 sound chip makes even more unsettling, all buzzy textures and tight loops.
If you dig obscure PS1 RPG soundtracks, this is worth the deep dive.