Motoi Sakuraba goes harder on the Xillia 2 selection than the first game deserved to set up. Fight Until Thine Blade Breaks has this relentless string-driven aggression that just refuses to let you breathe, classic Sakuraba battle writing cranked to eleven.
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Then Elle is Elle hits you with this gentle piano motif that somehow carries the entire emotional weight of the story in like forty seconds. Proof in the Depths of Sorrow does that thing where the melody keeps circling back on itself, building without ever fully resolving.
Genuinely devastating. The whole selection bounces between desperate combat intensity and quiet, personal moments without it ever feeling forced. If you played Xillia 2 and skipped these credits tracks, go back.