Sailing WIth You: The opening ambience is like waking up from a deep dream and would be an excellent start to your game. The melody is rather unpredictable which makes this a difficult piece to get stuck in my head, but I think as a background theme, it captures the unpredictability of the sea well. The ambient water sounds at the end envelope me and make me feel like I’m actually on the ocean.
A Storm is Coming: The long fade-in is a creative way to musically convey that something is coming, and the sense of danger comes from the ominous sound of the noises that are faded in. The danger sound seems to come in quite abruptly in the middle and sounds like the interruption of a foghorn on the ship warning of the potential imminent threat. Wow, the storm sounds like a monster at the end, which I imagine is likely to represent the way the sea feels when it pulls people overboard like that!
After the Storm: The warmth of the sound in the first track seems to disappear with this track which is a great way of musically conveying the ruins after a natural disaster like this storm.
The Great Plateaus: This is a dreamy ambient piece that would accompany exploratory gameplay well. The held synth tones seem to convey awe and stillness amidst large natural structures.
The Shipscrapers: I like the use of metallic-sounding instruments to represent the corresponding story in this track. The percussion is so fun when it comes in! This grows and grows to help convey the enormity of what the music is describing, but I also like the stylistic choice of fading out at the end to maybe convey moving away from the structures and watching them disappear on the horizon.
The Sky is Falling Apart: There is a solemn and sad tone to this track, but I think the chords selected are really beautiful which conveys many different emotions that may be present toward this ending part of the game.
The Dive - The Ocean’s Floor: My favorite part of this last piece is the growling bass synth and the voices used early. The “lah” voice when it’s by itself felt unsettling to me, as if you are slowly approaching the ocean floor in the pitch darkness. The gentle theme at the end is really at representing the final goal of burying the master’s body. I love the fade out echo of the wood block (?). There were many great pieces in your soundtrack and I enjoyed listening. Good work and thank you for sharing!