Austin Wintory scored an open-world archery game about lifting a curse, and it sounds like the wind itself is singing. The Pathless has this flowing quality where tracks bleed into each other like the game's seamless movement system.
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"None Have Returned" opens with isolated vocals over sparse instrumentation. Beautiful and lonely. "Cernos" and "Sauro" build around the corrupted spirit bosses with escalating intensity. "The Rain Infects All Waters" carries genuine environmental grief.
"Do You Not See That This World Is Broken" hits emotionally in a way the title alone promises. "A Land, Which Was Not My Own" closes everything with exhausted resolution. Twenty-one tracks that breathe with the landscape.
If you loved what Wintory did with thatgamecompany and want that same feeling of running through something sacred, he delivered again.