Traditional Japanese instrumentation colliding with electronic dread. GhostWire: Tokyo on PS5 and PC sounds like modern Shibuya folding in on itself, and the soundtrack captures that disorientation perfectly. "Toryanse" opens with a children's folk song reference that immediately feels wrong in context.
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"Kagome Kagome" does the same thing, taking familiar nursery rhyme melodies and warping them into something sinister. "Encounters and Vanishings" sets the tone for wandering empty streets full of spirits. "Awakening of the Giant" goes massive when the scale of the supernatural threat escalates.
The mix of shrine bells, taiko drums, and modern synth processing gives the whole thing a texture that sits between reverence and horror. If you want to feel what an empty Tokyo haunted by yokai sounds like, this is it.