Comment by vunderba

Just to put it out there, since some people might not know, Koshiro who is probably best known for Streets of Rage, is widely regarded as a master video game composer, right up there with Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Koji Kondo (Mario/Zelda).

Give the Stage 1 music from ActRaiser a listen to see (or hear) what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB9Pym-sdbs