This Sound Profile CD pulls the best of both Valkyrie Profile games into one short compilation and Motoi Sakuraba's range is on full display. To the Eternal Land from Silmeria opens with those cascading synth arpeggios that defined VP2's intensity.
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Then it jumps to Fighting the Shadowy Gods from the original, where the prog-rock organ work goes completely unhinged. Never Surrender still hits different every time with those relentless keyboard runs. Take a Flight ver.
Lenneth reworks the PSP arrangement and it sounds cleaner, tighter. Eleven tracks that basically serve as a greatest hits. If you've never touched either Valkyrie Profile soundtrack and want a sampler before diving into the full albums, start right here.