Bright, punchy synths bouncing off the DS speakers with more melodic depth than the hardware should allow. Minako Adachi and Megumi Komagata from PURE SOUND scored Summon Night X: Tears Crown, a strategy RPG spinoff that pushed the series into new territory.
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"Celestia Palace" layers these shimmering arpeggios over a stately rhythm that actually sounds regal on the little handheld. The battle themes go hard, with "Boss Battle 1" stacking urgent percussion under tense melodic runs.
"Forest of Illusion" has this dreamy, slightly off-kilter quality. Then "Evening Theme (Sorrow)" strips everything back to raw emotion, a quiet counterpart to the normal evening version. Worth it for any DS-era RPG fan who missed this Japan-only entry.