Pool of Dreams opens with this eerie calm that makes you forget you're about to assassinate someone on a Wii. Tenchu 4's 2008 soundtrack leans heavy into atmospheric tension, and it works better than a late-era Wii stealth game has any right to.
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Approaching Pursuers, Crossing Blades ramps from suspense into full combat panic with sharp percussion shifts. Taboo -GOHATTO- goes theatrical and dark, while A Puppet's Melancholy brings genuine sadness with restrained strings.
Rain is just... rain and loneliness. Twenty-eight tracks that range from quiet menace to full chaos, bookended by the original Pool of Dreams and its remix. If you missed this one in the Tenchu series, the soundtrack alone proves the spirit of stealth ninja music was still alive on Wii.