Whimsical fairy-tale arrangements with this dreamy quality that sounds like nothing else on the Dreamcast. Napple Tale was composed by Yoko Kanno and you can feel her fingerprints all over these tracks. "Spring Petal" floats with delicate instrumentation and soft vocal textures that feel like stepping into a storybook.
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"Circus" shifts into something playfully chaotic with bouncing rhythms and quirky melodic choices. Then "Fjorland" carries this winter stillness, cold and beautiful. The seasonal structure across the tracklist gives the whole thing a sense of time passing.
"Sleepy snake" and "Rabbit Bed" have these gentle lullaby qualities that just melt you. If you love Kanno's work on Cowboy Bebop or Escaflowne and want to hear her do a whimsical Dreamcast platformer, this is that and it's wonderful.