I honestly stumbled across this game first from a Let's Player back in the day. Whilst the platformer gameplay is definietly not what drew me to the game, the artsitry of it all really got me going. The let's-player in question was particuallry quiet enough for the music to just flow and express it's magnitude. The build up from the tutorial with "Roots", a gorgeous tense and mysterious opener, as Little seed navigates the veins of the wild to find physicality in a small fox. This leads to the jovial and playful "Present", as the fox now leaves the dense forrest into the vast pastoral world! Out coming to a "Creek" where tempo rises to a gallop as the player is able to test the limits of the fox, dashing, jumping and exploring, strings grabing ahold or the reighs and matiching the joy and revelry of running through a field of grass. It was a wonderful moment to watch on screen, I just had to re-experience it myself and bought the game and completed it in about 5 hours.
What especially had my attention with the soundtrack was that it was entirely composed with string quartet (with a few added production for pieces such as "Frozen Lake" and "Dreams").Yann van der Cruyssen spearheaded the composition, creating incredible soundscapes from Spring to Winter, paying homage to Beethovens "Symphony No. 6, Pastoral" and Vivialdi's "Four Seasons" with thier distinct leadings of violas, cellos and violins to represent the land, bloomed and primal. Songs that embody these facets and how they relate to Little seed's journey to keeping the seasons in balance are fabulous. The dangers that Little seed encounter are coupled by daring and ruthless uses of taught strings, emmenating danger and stress like on "Ritual of the Fox" and "First Nightmare", the former especially. Parallel to that, there are many ambient and atmospheric tracks that embody the hand-painted envirmonments our fox navigates such as "Waterfalls", "Foliage" and "The Winds".
The whole sonic accompaniment really out does itself against the actual quality of the gameplay (unfortunately). It is a true delight on the ears.
💫HIGHLIGHTS💫: TITLE - THE WINDS - FROZEN LAKE - DREAMS - RITUAL OF THE FOX
🦊🎴🌲
What especially had my attention with the soundtrack was that it was entirely composed with string quartet (with a few added production for pieces such as "Frozen Lake" and "Dreams").Yann van der Cruyssen spearheaded the composition, creating incredible soundscapes from Spring to Winter, paying homage to Beethovens "Symphony No. 6, Pastoral" and Vivialdi's "Four Seasons" with thier distinct leadings of violas, cellos and violins to represent the land, bloomed and primal. Songs that embody these facets and how they relate to Little seed's journey to keeping the seasons in balance are fabulous. The dangers that Little seed encounter are coupled by daring and ruthless uses of taught strings, emmenating danger and stress like on "Ritual of the Fox" and "First Nightmare", the former especially. Parallel to that, there are many ambient and atmospheric tracks that embody the hand-painted envirmonments our fox navigates such as "Waterfalls", "Foliage" and "The Winds".
The whole sonic accompaniment really out does itself against the actual quality of the gameplay (unfortunately). It is a true delight on the ears.
💫HIGHLIGHTS💫: TITLE - THE WINDS - FROZEN LAKE - DREAMS - RITUAL OF THE FOX
🦊🎴🌲