Kenji Ito and Nobuo Uematsu's SaGa work crammed into one box, spanning Game Boy bleeps all the way to PS2-era orchestration, and the whiplash is genuinely fun. The original Game Boy "Battle" theme still goes absurdly hard for four channels of sound, all urgency and melodic hooks fighting for space.
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"Fierce Battle" on the SNES entries pushes into prog-rock territory with those aggressive organ runs. Then you hit the arrange medley and hear familiar 8-bit melodies reborn with live instrumentation, which somehow makes "Wipe Your Tears Away" hit even harder than the original.
Twenty years of Kawazu's weird, wonderful RPG series in one collection. If you've ever bounced off a SaGa game but loved its music, this box set is your excuse to finally sit with all of it.