Title: Good, but not in the same league.
Review: Before I begin critizing this score, let me point out that it has extreme depth and immersiveness when compared to the music of any other game. That said, it has the misfortune of being compared to Robyn Miller's legendary music for Myst and Riven. The problem isn't skill - the music for Exile is masterfully and professionally written - but THAT's the problem. Robyn Miller had the advantage of being a game designer, not a composer, and as a result his music was utterly free from any stylistic conventions. It was completely original; completely timeless and placeless. Exile's music, however, has a tendancy to become too ethnic. You can hear when he is drawing upon Oriental influences, or Mideastern influences, or pulling out the traditional western orchestra for traditional dramatic emphasis. It is beautiful, but it breaks character. It becomes anachronistic. The worlds of Myst shouldn't be recognizable.
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