Handmade folk-pop that sounds like someone built instruments out of paper and then actually recorded an album with them. Tearaway on Vita had Media Molecule and composers like Kenneth Young crafting this papercraft world, and the soundtrack feels just as tactile.
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Green Man Groove bounces with acoustic guitar and these playful percussion loops that sound genuinely homemade. Renaissance Hop throws in record scratching over folk instrumentation, which shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Gibbet Hill shifts into this gorgeous lament with hornpipe that feels centuries old. Baby Wendigo Fight gets surprisingly tense for a game this cute. The whole thing has this warmth to it, like every track was performed in someone's living room.
If you missed the Vita era, this soundtrack alone proves that little console had heart.