Pure PC-98 MIDI given room to actually sing. The Legend of Heroes IV MIDI SPECIAL takes A Tear of Vermilion's score and presents it in cleaned-up MIDI that sits between raw FM synth and a full arrange album. A Tear of Vermilion ~memoria~ opens with a reflective take on the main theme that sets a completely different mood.
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The Road Towards Hope carries this forward momentum that sounds optimistic even through the MIDI limitations. Plateau Hymn is quietly stunning, a simple melodic line that benefits from stripped-back instrumentation. Benequia Monastery has this reverent quality the PC-98 sound channels handle surprisingly well.
If you want to hear mid-90s Falcom compositions in their most honest form, before orchestral upgrades changed everything, this is the version.