Posted on: December 25, 2019
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Good, but crippled by ambition
Let me preface: this is a SOUNDTRACK review - it has little to do with the game. Go check out the game - it's worth 4.5/5 stars (for me at least) and is a classic Cyan production all the way through. ---------------------- Now as for this: if you absolutely adore Robyn Miller's work - you will be... a bit disappointed. This is no Riven. There are glimpses of it here, but the quality is a mixed bag. As a companion piece it does its job tremendously well - you can't feel the rough, cringy moments when immersed in the game and you'll be forgiven to actually think it is of equal quality to Robyn's previous works. But no, the soundtracks to Riven (and Myst to a lesser extent) did stand on their own without the game, this does not. The main culprit is surprisingly its ambition. The parts that are ensemble-oriented fail. And they don't fail on a compositional level - the Cyan team simply didn't have the budget to hire and ensemble with a full string and horn section, that the composition required. So they settled. And they made a horrible compromise. The compromise they could have gone to would be to restrain the ambitious scoring. What they did instead was to retain the scoring (cause much ambition, yes?) and produce it on a HORRIBLY SOUNDING SYNTH BOX. The whiplash from those moments is jarring and praise should be given to the overlords of sound that did the in-game mix so well, that you don't snap at the juxtaposition. ---------------- TL;DR: If you liked Myst/Riven soudntracks - the craft is still there but buried deep in under-budgeted production. Buy it if you love Cyan and want to support it to up the production budget better next time. Otherwise - just go buy the game itself and skip the deluxe soundtrack package.
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