Dante9 on 19 September 2025
This is a tough one, because there are so many different kinds of atmosphere, from cozy to scary to melancholy to even bleak and whatnot.
Most Sony story games are thick with the stuff, but there are so many others.
The new FF7 games for example really do it for me, the excellent music does a lot of heavy lifting there. Or even the lack of music sometimes. In Remake, when you need to leave Aerith's house in the middle of the night without saying goodbye, there's no music, just the sounds of a wind. You really feel alone out there in the darkness and miss her lively presence. Then you find her again and the music comes back, creating an adventurous vibe that I also love.
