Late-90s PS1 JRPG orchestration that never left Japan and it's criminal how few people have heard this. Weltorv Estleia's soundtrack does that thing where every town has its own melodic identity and you can feel the world getting bigger as you move through the tracklist.
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"Flowing Blood Rhapsody" goes hard with layered strings and dramatic percussion that punches way above typical PS1 audio. "Flower Shop's Daughter" is this tender, music-box-adjacent piece that sits in your head for hours.
Then "Swarming Demons" drops into tense, dissonant territory with urgency that actually makes you anxious. "Scars of the Heart" just aches. The whole thing has that Tri-Ace era ambition where composers were writing full orchestral scores knowing they'd be compressed into PS1 sound chips.
If you dig deep-cut 90s JRPG soundtracks, this one deserves the attention it never got.