The piano work in this score is absolutely gorgeous and never lets up. Sakura no Toki, the long-awaited sequel in the Sakura no Uta series, fills its soundtrack with classical references woven into visual novel compositions.
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There are nods to Satie's Gymnopédies, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain reworked into something that fits the game's art-obsessed narrative. "砂金水晶の街路樹" floats on crystalline piano arpeggios that genuinely shimmer.
The piano arrangement versions at the end strip everything to just keys and emotion and somehow hit even harder. All those track titles reading like poetry themselves. If you care about VN soundtracks that treat music as literature, this collection is staggeringly good.