GBA sound chip doing absolute work here. Yggdra Union's original 2006 score by Shigeki Hayashi squeezes an absurd amount of drama out of the hardware, and the crunchy compressed audio actually gives the battle marches this aggressive, punchy quality the PSP version smooths over.
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"Royal March (Normal)" is one of those melodies that just lodges in your brain after a few loops, and hearing it mutate across all the variations feels like watching the same army adapt to new terrain. "Imperial March (Gulcasa)" goes full villain energy with these heavy, driving patterns.
The chiptune grit is part of the charm. If you grew up with GBA strategy games, this is pure nostalgia fuel that still holds up mechanically.