This might be one of my favorite game ending songs in my memory banks. This plays on the post-credits scene, in a truncated form, after you finish the game with the “true” ending, which I assume is the ending canon to the universe. I haven’t played the game but I watched a playthrough some time ago. I remember finding the story enjoyable, but I don’t remember much from it. Watch the ending here; it looks to be an updated version of the game. There’s an English-audio version but the voice actress doing the narration goes a little overboard.
Anyways, the game is from the first-person perspective, where you are the silent protagonist with Emilia as your guide. The song nicely captures Emilia’s saudade, as she hopes, perhaps naively, that she’ll be able to meet Mika again someday. Mika was a supernatural being that benevolently inhabited Emilia’s body and helped her fight enemies and finish her missions. Mika separated from Emilia and departed for wherever she came from at the end of the game, so it makes sense that Emilia would deal with the loss with a new personal mission with the flowers.
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Since my teens, I’ve bought and listened to tons of classical and other orchestral recordings. This is the first time I can recall hearing something for which it was painfully obvious it was a video score, not just some nice music. There’s this odd sense of moving around to difference scenes and some kind of expectation for something unfinished, and that’s before I watched the game clip. You aren’t supposed to listen to this by itself.
Good point. That might be why I bothered to watch the playthrough in the first place. It’s like I had to know what happened just from this piece of music, when normally I’d just check a little bit of the gameplay.