Orchestral SNES strings swelling into a samurai drama you can feel in your chest. Masashi Kageyama composed the music for Sunsoft's RPG catalog captured in this fourth collection volume, covering Benkei Gaiden and the Albert Odyssey games on Super Famicom.
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"Like Dancing in the Sky" opens with this gorgeous floating quality, while "Cursed World" drops into minor-key tension that makes dungeon crawling feel genuinely ominous. The battle themes hit hard too, "Sword Skill 1-2-Certain Kill" building from quiet resolve into full-blown intensity.
"Elegance -Japanese Beauty-" leans into traditional Japanese motifs filtered through the SPC700 chip. There's a real cinematic scope here that most SNES RPGs never attempted. If you dig deep-cut 16-bit RPG scores that deserve way more attention, start here.