Before Elden Ring consumed the world, FromSoftware made this quiet, melancholic PSVR adventure about a faerie wandering through a boarding school frozen in time. The soundtrack is unlike anything else in their catalog -- no thundering boss themes, no gothic choirs.
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Instead, you get the intimate loneliness of "Lonesome School" and the unsettling stillness of "Locked Forest." The "School Halls" trilogy (1, 2, and 3) traces a subtle emotional descent as you explore the same corridors across different moments, each iteration growing more wistful.
"Night Storm" brings atmospheric tension that reminds you this is still a FromSoftware game underneath the gentleness. But the real highlight is "Concert with the Fairy," a delicate piece that captures the bittersweet connection between the invisible faerie protagonist and the students who can't quite perceive them.
Having two versions of "Concert with Everyone" -- one with Zoe Thorne's vocals and one with Yuri Noguchi's -- gives the closing emotional beat different cultural textures. Both are moving, but in distinct ways. The title track "Deracine" itself carries the full weight of the word's meaning -- to uproot, to displace -- in every note.
This is FromSoftware at their most vulnerable, and Yuka Kitamura's score makes it land.