While not a Visual Novel, I think the most noticeable example of this in a Video Game is Sonic and the Black Knight. The downside to this is that music being too independent of a work can make it either hard to notice within the work itself, or take focus away from it. There sre songs that sound great on thier own regardless of context.

How well does the soundtrack stand on it's own? Music is at the end of the day, music, and it's very common to listen to music in spare time.'Song For Friends' from Little Busters is a beautiful song that made me cry just about every time I heard it when I read the novel, but it loses a lot of what makes it impactful when the context behind the song is removed. The downside to focusing on this is that often the music is not nearly as entertaining when on its own, as it was made to compliment a particular story or Scene. How well does the soundtrack compliment the story it is used in? Certain soundtracks do thst very well, I would argue Key and really any soundtrack by Jun Maeda does this to perfection.

There are three ways to judge the soundtrack of any medium where it is supplementary, like TV, Movies, Anime, Games, or in this case: Visual Novels. You see, this is a question that is more complex than it seems for me.

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