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old jrpgs had music like toby's
really melodic and really heavily themed around the areas or events they were for because of how limited the sound fonts were
games like ff7 built their impact off the back of their music
stuff like fighting a jenova clone to a muted rendition of aeris's theme after she was just killed right in front of you is the type of thing that makes a game stick in the mind of an entire generation
toby played all those games and is smart and a talented musician, he understands how to make impactful music
actually playing a real instrument really helps, when you're actually playing something you can feel the emotion of music with a depth you just can't otherwise and it gives you a stronger perspective of how to give feeling to music

he also makes every song progress and build like they're telling their own story, they always have a really fucking good part they build up to and it's like hitting lap 2 in fzero and getting BOOST POWER right when the beat drops