Sakuraba wrote a Wii soundtrack that sounds like it belongs on way more powerful hardware. Tales of Graces opens with Mamoritai White Wishes and immediately sets this warm, earnest tone that carries through everything. Sophie's theme is deceptively simple but it burrows into your head and stays there, this delicate little melody that gets recontextualized every time it appears.
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The battle tracks go surprisingly hard for the Wii, We Must Triumph and Grasp It with All Your Might have that classic Sakuraba prog energy cranked up. Beyond the Sunlit Trees into The Children's Adventure captures the childhood arc so perfectly it hurts when Growing Apart kicks in.
The whole friendship theme of the game lives in these compositions. If you played Graces F on PS3 but never sat with the original score, it deserves your full attention.