Intimate chamber music played over a candlelit tabletop RPG and it works so well. Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars was Yoko Taro's card-game experiment, and Keiichi Okabe scored it with this restrained elegance that sounds like flipping through an old storybook.
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"Pursuing the Dragon" opens with quiet determination, strings and piano mapping out the quest ahead. "Dance of the Woodlander" is this folksy little piece that catches you smiling. Then "Tears of the Black Witch" shifts everything tragic, so much emotion in so few instruments.
"Twin Recollections" and its field edit hit differently depending on where you are in the story. Fourteen tracks, all delicate, all purposeful. If you love Okabe's NieR work but want to hear him whisper instead of shout, this is that.