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Lupo loves this soundtrack, with its engaging story behind it too
Our Garden (Main Theme) - Melodies are beautiful, with piano, flute, and violin strings tenderly attached yet pulling heartstrings, the brass pushing forward with such force of conviction. Sad yet beautiful.
- Although feel off about the brass, when it was longer, it should fluctuate a bit, because normal brass players find it hard to constantly extend long note it (Air lungs are very limited).
- Lupo would love a section of brass staccato with synth arp and metallic ambiance from 2:10, a final harshness remnant reminder from previous tension release before fading into the piano.
Concrete Sandcastles - Loves the guitar and its slide, I imagined the girl playing with sand, glancing at the window once and a while seeing the vast space from the spaceship (Kinda contradictory to how main story supposed to be, oops).
Storm Warning V1 - Nice, the ambiance gets lupo imaginative about exploring,
- But weirdly, lupo imagined it as rainy not sandy (lupo was kinda surprised when read the track description).
- The naming of the track causes confusion, "Sandstorm Warning V1" would set listeners to properly imagine the setting.
- It would be lovely if you dabble more into ambient environment sound design, like having sandstorm sound effects and occasional hauntingly EAS (Emergency Alert System) or HEV suit system notification going haywire (Half-Life Sound Effect) in the intro and outro.
- You can add an outro with a long hauntingly warning sound with distortion (Indicating that the player failed to return to the shelter, swallowed by sandstorm).
The vibe reminded me of some FTL, Modern Warfare 2 (2006), Spec Ops: The Line, and Hiroyuki Sawano.
PS. You know, each time after the soundtrack ends, SoundCloud just autoplay The Christmas Song Will Stetson, could you make a Christmas song in this apocalyptic sandstorm place (or Delphinium will throw a tantrum if you don't bring a present) :]
PS2. Kinda wishes more people would listen to this :(