Delicate piano lines over something quietly unsettling. Fairytale Requiem is a Windows visual novel that takes fairy tale characters and twists them sideways, and the soundtrack mirrors that perfectly. "Alice's Theme" has this music-box quality that keeps threatening to go somewhere dark.
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"Gretel's Theme" carries a weight to it, like the story already went wrong before you showed up. And then "The Collapse of Paradise" drops the pretense entirely and just lets everything fall apart in the arrangement. There's even a karaoke version tucked at the end, which is a wild tonal shift.
If you like soundtracks that feel like storybooks with the pages slightly out of order, put this on.