Gothic PC visual novel energy cranked to eleven. The score ping-pongs between elegant harpsichord pieces and full-tilt pipe organ chaos like it can't decide if it's a ballroom or a crypt. "Eternity Deadwaltz" is exactly what it sounds like, a waltz that sounds like it's being played in a collapsing cathedral, and it rules.
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"Rhapsody for a Ruler" opens with this commanding, almost baroque authority that sets the tone immediately. Then "Yuuka in the Moonlight" goes tender and melancholic, piano over silence. The contrast is the whole point. Everything swings between monstrous and fragile with zero middle ground.
If you want vampire fiction that sounds like it takes itself dead seriously, this delivers.