Soft synths and warm pads floating over you like a late-night blanket. This is the soundtrack to Angelique Another Story IV, the fourth side-story in Koei's long-running otome series, and it does not let up on the mood. "nostalgia-1" sets this fragile, wistful tone right away, "psycho-fear" flips it into something genuinely unsettling, and "maze ~fantasy~" drifts through with this dreamy haze that just sits in your head.
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The whole album cycles between calm and tension in a way that feels like turning pages in a storybook at midnight. "pale blue pain" and "innocent" hit different when you're already in that headspace. There's something about the way the three nostalgia tracks bookend everything, looping you back to where you started but changed.
Like waking up from a dream you almost remember. If you ever wanted background music for staring out a window at 3AM, this is it.