Style: Video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: A cozy soundtrack that somehow reminds me that everything will be ok, despite how horrid the world is.
Thoughts: I absolutely love when two genres that I love come together. I've made it no secret of my love for dungeon synth, and I certainly have my fair share of video game music as well. While most of the time I will comment on how much dungeon synth mimics the sounds of video game music, with Moonlight we have just the opposite. Video game music that is very closely aligned with the sounds and textures of dungeon synth.
Heart of the Woods is a visual novel that follows two young women that fall in love. The story is simple yet so heartwarming that I've read through the story more than one occasion. The music in Moonlight is equally as simple and charming.
Most of Moonlight revolves around a simple melody that is first played on something that sounds like a music box. This melody is found throughout numerous leitmotifs throughout the entire soundtrack. In these melodies the music forges it's identity. It takes on many forms, but the core is still there.
The resemblance to dungeon synth comes in these very same melodies. Dungeon synth revolves around slow repeating melodies, and that is exactly what the main themes of Moonlight do - albeit just a bit more active than a majority of dungeon synth.
When I first heard this soundtrack I didn't make the connection with one of my favorite genres. However now upon relistening for this blog I find myself having a new appreciation for the music that I never had in the past. It's small revelations like this that make the effort of writing nearly an endless amount truly worth the effort.
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