Muted strings hanging in empty air, like grief given a tempo. Shunsuke Tsuchiya scored Tokyo RPG Factory's Oninaki with this restrained melancholy that treats death less like a tragedy and more like weather. "Linne" carries a fragile melody that keeps threatening to break apart, while "Battle -The Fallen-" pushes into urgent orchestral territory without ever losing that underlying sadness.
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"The Eternal Garden" is genuinely beautiful, this still, suspended moment between worlds that makes you stop playing and just listen. The battle themes cycle through escalating intensity but always return to something quiet.
Even the jingles feel heavy. If you want an action RPG soundtrack that sounds like it's already mourning something before the fight even starts, Oninaki commits to that tone completely.