Soft MIDI piano trickling through like sunlight on a lazy afternoon you never want to end. Susuki Nohara's Concerto is the soundtrack to AMEDEO's early-2000s otome visual novel SIESTA, and it wears its modest production like a badge of sincerity.
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"Reminiscence of a moonlit night" has this delicate music-box quality that early Windows VNs did so well when the writing was strong enough to carry it. "Afternoon of ennui" captures boredom as an actual feeling instead of just dead air.
The three versions of "a holy promise" show how one melody can shift from vocal warmth to bare-bones instrumental ache. "Mortal fight" is the one dramatic spike in an otherwise gentle tracklist. If you have a soft spot for that handmade quality of early otome game music, this one still holds up.