Motoi Sakuraba went completely unhinged on the PS1 and it's glorious. Valkyrie Profile's soundtrack is prog rock filtered through Norse mythology, all shredding keyboard runs and dramatic vocal samples pushed through the PlayStation's sound hardware.
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"Confidence in the Domination" is a battle theme that refuses to sit still for even a second. "Take a Flight" opens with this soaring momentum that sets the tone for everything. Then "Requiem to a Predicament" drops into melancholy so sharp it almost doesn't feel like the same game.
The whole thing swings between triumphant and tragic without warning. If you've ever wanted to hear what happens when a prog musician scores Ragnarok on 32-bit hardware, start here.