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Arise: A Simple Story

Developer Piccolo Studio

Publisher Techland

Format PC (tested), PS4, Xbox One

Release Out now

Back in the mists of time – 273, to be exact – Tequila Works sound designer David García was working on the soundtrack to the narrative adventure , and spoke of the influence that legendary composer Joe Hisaishi was having on his work. The Studio Ghibli master was, García told us, “a master of portraying a landscape through the eyes of a child.” García’s soundtrack for once again channels Hisaishi with some reverence, but this is a very different kind of tale to . Indeed, it is its opposite, telling not of a young boy stranded on a strange island,

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