Traditional Chinese instrumentation filtered through early 2000s PC game production. Sword and Fairy 3's unpublished tracks are the ones that never made the final cut, and honestly some of them hit harder for it. "水柔聲‧變調" has this flowing water quality, erhu and flute weaving around each other like a riverbank scene.
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"滄桑歎‧變調" carries real weight, the kind of world-weary sigh turned into melody. "魔劍斬妖‧變調" picks up the pace with demon-slaying intensity, sword energy made audible. Eleven tracks of variations and alternate arrangements that feel like looking at concept art for a painting you already love...
For Xianxia RPG fans who want to hear the Sword and Fairy 3 that almost was.