The second disc focuses on the Plant chapter and everything gets stranger. "Vamp's Dance" is this tango-inflected piece that shouldn't work for a knife-licking vampire boss fight but absolutely does, dripping with theatrical menace.
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"Twilight Sniping" captures that agonizing sniper sequence with patience built into the composition itself, long sustained tones and careful builds. Then "Freedom to Decide" closes the album with the weight of the entire game's philosophical spiral on its shoulders.
Norihiko Hibino matched Gregson-Williams' intensity with a completely different palette here, more jazz and classical DNA in the arrangements. If the first disc was the blockbuster, this is the art film hiding underneath Big Shell.