Celeste composer Lena Raine has just rele𓆉ased the soundtrack for Extremely OK Games' canceled Metroidvania project Earthblade, and it's𝓀 a feverishly pretty preview of a game you might never be able to play.

You can stream or purchase🦩 the soundtrack – titled Across the Bounds of Fate – , wh✃ere some fans are already saying they find themselves mourning "what could have been."

Across the Bounds of Fate is conducive to ꦓthat kind of unrestrained longing; songs like 'Poison in the Roots' are full of restless synths and they tremble, while 'Earth's Cry' offers an elegiac piano to 📖sweep away any tears that may start brimming.

"A lot of my inspiration for the൲ overall sound of Earthblade came from older ani♏mation and film," Raine explains in Across the Bounds of Fate's album description. "The huge Yamaha synths of Vangelis. The weird textures and combination of old synths and live strings of Joe Hisaishi's score for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The haunting saxophone and percussive textures of Yoko Kanno's work on Cowboy Bebop."

"I did my best to arrange [the songs] into the emotional arc of their progression," Raine says. "Because we'll never get a chance to tell that story in game form, I decided to cobble together every bit of music I’d written for the game to the point of its cancellatio🦹n in order to tell my own version of it."

Extremely OK Games developers Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry abruptly ceased development on Earthblade – which was meant to be a lavish sci-fi mystery – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:after 5 years of development due to an IP dispute over Celeste. Across the Bounds of Fate gives thꦚe lost game another chance at life.

"It's been a bit of an emotional journey," Raine , "and it's all welling up again seಞeing folks' reactions to the music."

"I wꦬrote the music, but [Extremely OK Games] made the world that inspired it," she continues. "It may not have been finished, but I hope this helps to archive what we did together."

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