Jingle bells and music boxes that slowly curdle into something unsettling. Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star is the 2015 sequel/spinoff, and if the first game's soundtrack surprised you, this one goes further off the deep end.
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Twenty-four tracks across every mood you can name. "Darkest Child" is genuinely creepy, no trace of the dating sim lightness left. "Silver Corridor" hums with cold tension, like walking through somewhere you shouldn't be.
But then "Pigeons Looking For Beans" exists, and it's exactly as silly as it sounds, evening edition included. The holiday framing gives it license to swing from "Jingle Bells" to "Right Behind You" without flinching. Classical pieces sit next to circus waltzes and ambient dread.
If you played the first Hatoful and thought it couldn't get weirder, this soundtrack says hold my birdseed.