Wind Fantasy 2 dropped in 2002 on PC and brought this JRPG score that sounds like it was made by people who really studied their Falcom and Square catalogs. The aLIVE music disc version cleans everything up with arranged tracks that let the melodies breathe.
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Twenty-eight tracks deep, so there's a lot to dig into. The battle themes carry that early 2000s MIDI-orchestral punch that Taiwanese RPGs leaned into hard, and the town themes have this earnest sweetness that sticks with you.
Some of the slower pieces get genuinely emotional. The whole thing sits in that specific era where PC RPG soundtracks were ambitious but still had that slightly synthy edge. JRPG fans who've exhausted the obvious catalogs should absolutely check this one.