Mid-2000s visual novel energy with a soundtrack that swings from cozy slice-of-life to genuinely dark without warning. Trample on Schatten's score uses the Kagefumi no Uta theme three times across the tracklist, each version shifting tone as the story escalates.
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Tears at Sunset earns its name with a slow, aching piano arrangement that just sits there. The whole thing has that distinctly Japanese PC-game production sound from 2009. If you play story-heavy VNs and actually leave the music on, this one rewards that habit.