Takayuki Nakamura turned a PS1 fighting game into a full-blown jazz fusion album. TOBAL 2's soundtrack pulls from Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Jeff Beck, and you can feel every one of those influences. The opening Tobal 2 theme is immediately infectious, all warm synths and funky bass.
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Knee Drop is probably the standout, this ridiculously tight fusion of rock and electronic that just keeps building. China Dress grooves with a completely different texture, more laid back but still rhythmically complex. In an Unguarded Moment goes almost contemplative.
The whole thing has this cohesive, late-night-session feel where every track belongs next to the last. If you played Virtua Fighter but never checked Nakamura's work on this, you're missing his best stuff.