Motoi Sakuraba went back to Dahna and somehow made the emotional hits land even harder. The Beyond the Dawn expansion OST for Tales of Arise leans heavy into character themes this time, and hearing the different Alphen variations unfold from Indignation through Liberation to Decision is like watching someone slowly figure out who they are through music alone.
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Nazamil's two versions, Alone and Trust, do this quiet devastation thing where the melody barely changes but the arrangement shifts everything. Two People Standing Close Together is painfully tender. The battle tracks still rip, especially Axis of Solitude with its deadly struggles variant pushing the intensity way past the base game.
If you finished Arise and skipped the DLC, you left the best character writing on the table.