Yoko Kanno scored a Dreamcast fairy tale and it sounds like a music box that grew a full orchestra overnight. Napple Tale's soundtrack is this impossibly warm, whimsical thing that has no business existing on the same console as Sonic Adventure.
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Chocolate Forest has these playful woodwind runs that just tumble over each other, and Rain Waltz shifts into something genuinely melancholic without warning. Then you hit Dove Clock and it's all ticking percussion layered under strings that feel alive.
The whole thing is so aggressively charming. If you've ever wanted a soundtrack that sounds like wandering through a storybook illustration, this is the one that actually pulls it off.