Warm, easygoing melodies that feel like a summer you half-remember. Hoshimatsuri no Uta is a 2002 Windows visual novel, and this first press bonus disc is pure comfort listening. "Sunbeams of Summer" does exactly what the title promises, all golden warmth, while "Constellation in August" drifts into something dreamy and wistful late at night.
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"Road Along the Sea" has this gentle momentum to it, like biking down a coastal path with nowhere to be. Then "...Lonely" hits and suddenly the mood cracks open. The whole disc feels like flipping through a photo album from a town you visited once.
If you want early-2000s VN atmosphere distilled into 18 short tracks, this bonus disc punches above its weight.