NightCry is basically the spiritual successor to Clock Tower and the soundtrack nails that same oppressive dread. Nobuko Toda and a team of composers built 25 tracks of survival horror tension around being stalked by the Scissorwalker on a cruise ship, and "Scissorwalker" the track is genuinely anxiety-inducing.
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"Haunted Ship" sets the atmosphere immediately with these low, creaking textures that make you feel the hull groaning around you. "Blood In The Shadows" ramps into full panic mode. Then "A Girl" pulls back into something fragile and sad, which somehow makes everything worse.
The shift from "Murder In The Woods" to "Path To Eternity" is wild. If you miss when horror games scored tension instead of jump scares, NightCry's soundtrack gets it right.