The soundtrack of The Breath of Winter picks up seamlessly where the soundtrack of the main game left off, which means: once again high quality and melodies worth listening to. As the game takes us to the arctic regions of the ice elves, the focus this time is more on the freezing cold sounds of bells and wind chimes, which are more often combined with gentle harps and female chorales - in other words, ice plus elves.
As a result, the overall work lacks some of the instrumental variety of The Order of Dawn, but the main theme, which runs through several tracks, is a real listen. And the usual trinity of thrilling battle tracks (Attack on Fastholme, Aryns Battle), gentle melodies (Mirraw Thur, Tirganach) and cheesy tunes (Cenwen, Return of Cenwen [Bonus]) still works brilliantly. Brilliantly enough for the score to win the 2004 German Computer Games Award for Best Soundtrack. Now if that's not something ...
Nostalgia warning
The rating of the individual tracks is purely subjective and clearly colored by my own experience with the game. You can find out more in the article About Nostalgia.
