The Pyramid Head theme alone is enough to make you pause the game and just listen to how wrong everything sounds. Yamaoka's complete Silent Hill 2 soundtrack is 30 tracks of psychological rot spread across PS2, Xbox, and PC.
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Letters opens with that piano melody that somehow carries the entire emotional weight of the story in under a minute. Then you get Teen Aunts / Ten Ants / Tenants, three variations on the same apartment unease that shift like your perception of James does.
Musicbox is so delicate it almost hurts. The Dog Ending and UFO Ending tracks exist too, because even horror needs a pressure valve. Play the remake, then come back and hear what the original was really doing.