Motoi Sakuraba went absolutely feral on the Tales of the Abyss soundtrack. The PS2 synths give everything this dense, layered quality where tracks like "Fang which wants blood" and "The arrow was shot" hit with Sakuraba's signature prog-rock intensity cranked up.
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Then you get "The Royal City of Light" doing this regal brass thing that actually sounds expensive for PS2 hardware. The Oracle trilogy of tracks, Coercion into Sorrow into Conspiracy, tells its own story through shifting tone alone.
"Awkward justice" is a criminally underrated piece. Just moody and conflicted in a way that matches Luke's whole deal. If you played Abyss and skipped the OST on its own, you're missing how much compositional weight Sakuraba packed into this one.