Ben Shapiro critiqued clips from the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack from the standpoint of music theory. This episode answers that critique by putting the score back in its dramatic context.

In this Mythic Mind Games episode, Dr. Andrew Snyder argues that technical analysis without the game’s dramatic context is the wrong framework, explains why these tracks feel “meandering” when heard as isolated clips, and asks what Clair Obscur’s music is for and how that changes the way it is judged.