Falcom took their notoriously punishing 1986 side-scroller and gave its music the full drama treatment on this 1991 cassette release. Theme of Romancia hits with that classic Falcom melodic confidence, bright and earnest in a way that makes you forget the original game gave you 30 minutes to finish or die.
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The two-part Sound Movie tracks are wild, blending narration and arranged music into something halfway between a radio play and a concert. Symphonic Suite 'The Holy Sword' goes all in on orchestral bombast. Distant Romancia closes things out like a farewell letter to the Dragon Slayer era.
If you love early Falcom but never dug past Ys and Xanadu, start here.