The Octopath Traveler main theme opens this thing and immediately sets a bar that somehow keeps getting cleared. Yasunori Nishiki's layered piano-and-strings work on that track alone could sell the whole disc, but then you get Keiichi Okabe's Emil from NieR sneaking in with that haunting vocal melody.
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The Red Wings pulls you straight back to FFIV's militaristic tension. The Wanzers from Front Mission brings this gritty mechanical energy that contrasts perfectly with the lighter Omotcha de Chocobo. Fifteen tracks spanning PS1 through Switch era.
The whole sampler reads like Square Enix raided their own vault and grabbed one standout from every corner. Worth it just to hear how wildly different their composers think about melody.