Octopath Traveler, The Frostlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aBGATTgimM
Looking at the gleaming Frostlands in role-playing game Octopath Traveler is like looking into a small, shaken snow globe. The area’s falling snow looks romantically like glitter, and everything is softened in despondent bluish light. Its original score, comprised of sweetly plodding piano and a melancholy viola, make its simple, arctic sparkle even more lovely.
Poem: “‘Climbing like the thread / which forms the groove around a snail-shell, / doubling back and forth until where snow begins, it ends.” – “An Octopus,” Marianne Moore
