FromSoftware made a Dynasty Warriors-style hack and slash about Minamoto no Yoshitsune and the soundtrack goes way harder than it needed to. Yuji Kanda composed this PS2 score with real strings and traditional Japanese instrumentation that sells the Genpei War setting completely.
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"逆落とし" (the famous cliff charge) ramps up with this frantic energy that matches the battlefield chaos, and "大海の決戦" brings these thundering drums for the naval battle at Dan-no-ura. Then "静の舞" closes everything out with this haunting, restrained beauty.
The whole thing swings between full-scale war anthems and these deeply personal moments like "追憶" that remind you this is a tragedy underneath all the swordplay. If you're into Sengoku-era action games, the music alone justifies tracking this one down.