Clock Town's theme getting more frantic each day is one of the best tricks any N64 soundtrack ever pulled. Majora's Mask from Koji Kondo and team scores dread like no other Zelda, all through the limitations of that cartridge hardware.
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"Final Hours" is just this slow, suffocating countdown that makes you feel the moon's weight without a single dramatic note. The Song of Healing sounds like grief being gently folded into something bearable. Then Astral Observatory hits with this lonely, twinkling melody that belongs in a planetarium for sad kids.
The way Clock Town Day 3 warps the same tune into pure anxiety. If you've never let that timer run out just to hear what the music does at the end, you're missing out.