CD-quality orchestral ambition pouring out of a TurboGrafx-16. Tengai Makyou Fuuun Kabuki Den's 1993 soundtrack pushed the PC Engine CD hardware to do things it probably shouldn't have been able to do, and it worked. "Push Mt.
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Fuji" has this bombastic march energy that's absurd in the best way. "Sever the Enemy!!" comes in with double exclamation points earned, all urgency and razor-sharp melody. Then "Purifying Dance" pulls everything back to something ceremonial and haunting.
Nineteen tracks that swing between Edo-period grandeur and pure action-game adrenaline. If you've never explored the Far East of Eden series and you care about what the TG-16 CD add-on could actually do with redbook audio, start here.