Twister from The World Ends With You opens this and immediately sets a mood nobody was expecting from a Square Enix game in 2007. That hip-hop-infused J-pop beat felt like a completely different company made it. Theme of Crisis Core carries Takeharu Ishimoto's signature intensity, blending rock with orchestral tension in a way that perfectly captured Zack's story.
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Overture to DISSIDIA teased what would become one of the PSP's biggest crossover soundtracks. The disc is mostly silence tracks after those first five, which was a deliberate quirk of the event giveaway. But those opening tracks alone.
Give me all your love has this infectious pop energy that's pure mid-2000s DS era. Worth finding just for the Twister original before TWEWY became a cult classic.