Steampunk visual novel scoring that actually smells like coal and oil. Souten no Celenaria is the first entry in Liar-soft's "What a Beautiful" series, set in a war-torn world of airships and empires, and "steam city under the grayish sky" immediately puts you in that overcast, industrial atmosphere.
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"Dogfight" kicks the energy up with urgent strings and driving percussion that make you feel the rattling of a propeller plane. The opening theme "JUVENILE" appears in three versions, and the full vocal cut has this soaring, bittersweet quality that captures the whole tone of the game.
"Orgel" is a quiet music-box interlude, fragile and sad. Nineteen tracks of sky-bound adventure and grounded melancholy. If you've been sleeping on Liar-soft's steampunk VN catalog, start here.