A distorted guitar riff crashes into jazz trumpet and you're already in a sword fight. Soul Edge's PlayStation soundtrack, the Khan Super Session version, was put together by a crew including Masumi Ito, Bentenmaru, and Taku Iwasaki, and the genre variety is wild.
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"The Wind and Clouds" plays like a prog rock anthem for Mitsurugi's stage. "Kkaduri" and "Horangi Arirang" weave Korean folk melodies into fighting game intensity in ways that still feel bold. "Bravely Folk Song" does something similar with European influences.
Every character stage is its own world. The whole thing refuses to settle on one sound, and that restlessness is what makes it hold up almost thirty years later.