This thing opens with "Hazy Night" and immediately you're standing on a dark Tokyo street corner feeling like something terrible is about to happen. The soundtrack balances genuine creepiness with surprising tonal range.
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"Crime Busting With a Smile!" is jarringly upbeat in the best way, like the game is daring you to relax. "Curse Echoes" does exactly what you'd expect from that title, slow and deeply unsettling. Then "Downtown Dwellers" pulls back into this warm, lived-in neighborhood feeling that makes the horror moments hit harder by contrast.
"Predestination" builds with this inevitability that. Yeah. Square Enix buried one of their best visual novel scores in a game most people scrolled right past. Go fix that.