The way The Artist and the Gallery uses this warped classical motif to score a serial killer's psychic murder gallery is genuinely unhinged. The Evil Within 2 leans harder into psychological horror scoring than the first game, and it works.
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Guardian Chase has this relentless mechanical pulse underneath screeching strings that makes every encounter with that thing feel like a panic attack. Welcome to Union tricks you with almost peaceful ambient tones before Union's Falling Apart rips that safety net away.
They even drop Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in there. Meet My Beautiful Obscura though. That track name alone. The score swings between quiet dread in Anima and full sensory overload in Psychoplasm without ever losing its thread.
Survival horror fans owe it to themselves to hear this one standalone.