the soundtrack for this game vexes me so much (both the in-game audio and the ?remastered? album, SRCL-3446 - it’s on khinsider)
actually the whole thing is overall vexing. How did this game come about? Why did the developers involved choose to make…this?
I think it’s neat that you have one single resource to use to level up and also create items.
it used to be spread around the internet that the art design was by Yoshitaka Amano, I guess based upon the fact that he released an artbook/collection called Maten (a decade beforehand). You can still find this misinformation here and there.