Full fairy tale orchestra that actually commits to the bit. Ari Pulkkinen's Trine scores pile on harps, choirs, and strings like a storybook that never stops turning pages. The main theme is one of those melodies that just lodges in your skull, and hearing the 2008 original version next to the polished one shows how much it grew.
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"Crystal Caverns" has this shimmering texture underneath the strings that makes the whole track feel frozen mid-sparkle. Then "Waltz of The Perished" goes full gothic ballroom and somehow it works. Genuinely elegant stuff from a physics puzzle game.
If you ever co-oped Trine and forgot to appreciate the music behind the chaos, this collection fixes that.