Square Enix and PopCap made a puzzle RPG together and it sounds way more serious than that collaboration suggests. Gyromancer's soundtrack is dark fantasy through and through. "On the Trail" and "In the Tracks of the Beast" create this persistent hunting tension.
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"Bared Teeth" and "Lashing Out" score encounters with genuine menace. "'Neath the Eaves of the Wood" is beautifully atmospheric. "Cloaked in Darkness" and "Power Unbound" escalate toward the endgame. Twenty-six tracks for a Bejeweled-meets-Final-Fantasy hybrid, and none of them phone it in.
"Hand of Ice" chills. "Green Shoots" offers hope at the end. If you wrote this game off as a casual puzzle spinoff, the soundtrack alone proves it had real ambition underneath.