A reprint of the sound collection from MARIONETTE ~Itotsukai~ (The Puppeteer), and the English-titled tracklist gives away just how introspective this Windows visual novel gets. "BLUE BIRD" opens with hope, "Everyone is Lying" drops you into paranoia, and "Love and Scars" sits right in the painful space between the two.
Read more
The naming convention alone tells a story: "Theoretical Intuition" gets a second version later, like the same idea revisited after everything has changed. The emotional range across 27 tracks is impressive. "Captive Heart" and "What I Desire" carry heavy romantic weight, while "Dummy Face" and "Complex" push into psychological territory.
"Adrift" and "Utsuri" drift into something ambient and melancholic, the kind of tracks that play during long monologues staring out windows. "Something Lost, Something Regained" near the end is the thesis statement of the whole collection, and "The World of Yesterday and Today" closes everything with bittersweet finality.
The fact that this got a reprint in 2008 says something about the staying power of these compositions. For fans of narrative-driven VN soundtracks that wear their hearts on their sleeves without apology.