For the 69th episode, we’ll be hearing a nice set of calm tracks, adding another entry to my ongoing Chilly McFreeze series. 

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Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:06 - Picross e7 (3DS) - Mega Picross (composer: unknown)

02:19 - Talk Segment 1

05:12 - Energy Breaker (Super Famicom) - Newly-Settled Town (composer: Yukio Nakajima)

07:42 - Star Ocean (Super Famicom) - Ambition (composer: Motoi Sakuraba)

10:55 - Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand (Super Famicom) - Shopping (composers: Naoki Kaneda, Satoshi Arai, and Atsushi Shirakawa)

12:58 - Bahamut Lagoon (Super Famicom) - Aqui-Land Mahaaru (composer: Noriko Matsueda)

15:22 - Cu-On-Pa (Super Famicom) - Lonely Factory (composer: Ken Kojima)

20:22 - Talk Segment 2

23:19 - Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked (PS2?) - So that the forms of heavenly maidens linger before me yet more (composer: Masafumi Takada)

25:30 - Coffee Talk (multiplatform) - Silent Rains (composer: Andrew Jeremy)

29:23 - Persona 5 Tactica (multiplatform) - Beneath the Mask -Tactica- (composer: Shoji Meguro; arranger: Toshiki Konishi)

23:25 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Dusk (composer: Garoad)

37:35 - Breath of Fire 3 (PS1) - Windy City (composers: Akari Kaida, Yoshino Aoki)

39:52 - Talk Segment 3

43:51 - Fantasian (multiplatform) - Frozen Tundra (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

48:37 - Chrono Cross (PS1) - Leaving the Body (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda)

50:44 - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness (DS) - Time Gear (composers: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ken-ichi Saito, Yoshihiro Maeda)

52:41 - Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii/3DS/Switch) - Reminiscence (composer: Manami Kiyota)

56:09 - Thunder Force III (Genesis) - Present (Staff Roll) (composer: Toshiharu Yamanishi)

59:16 - Outro Talk Segment

1:02:05 - Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - Now is the Winter (cover of “The Mines of Narshe”; composer: Final Fantasy VI; arranger: Mustin)