Yume Nikki OST: Martian Underground (Extended)

Yume Nikki Extended Soundtrack
Composed by Kikiyama
Game by Kikiyama
Played in the Martian Depths near Mars-san, accessible only if you have the Yuki-onna/Umbrella and Midget effects.
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There's a great remix of this on the 24 Effects album.

[nameless]

this part was undoubtedly my favorite area in the game,  
just finding that poor creature sitting alone as if it had never felt love, as if it had been unwanted, or even as if it had never seen another living being, no matter what you do it just sits there...
 acting as if you don't exist. 
i swear i sat next to it for about half an hour before i left....
doing nothing but contemplating existence. 

[floweyseed]

The way it sounds like water flowing is just so relaxing

[nintendorkds]

a song with 5 notes and 4, 850, 194, 022 comments about depression and loneliness

[thestickopia]

5 notes and yet it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard

[Endymion]

Remember the only way to get to this area is to shrink Madotsuki so she can fit into the tiny hole that leads to the underground. So how did the alien fit through that entrance? At one time, it was small too, when it was young. It descended into the ground and found much safety and enjoyment in its machines it surrounded itself with. But as it matured, grew into an adult, it was now too big to leave the way it came in. It's stuck down there still surrounded by its dying crackling engines that no longer bring it the joy they once did. So you have an Earth girl unable to leave her room, visiting a Martian unable to leave his, kindred spirits of 2 different worlds. It reminds me of the allegory in Perfect Day for Bananafish. Both Madotsuki and the Martian are bananafish.

[gaygranola]

This song and barracks settlement are easily my favourites

[WanLers]

Just 5 notes and a lot of depressive and lonely thoughts, we can't deny that we identify with madotsuki

[Conkel]

Calming... With some loneliness.

Actually more lonely the more I listen...

[InternationalBoardsOfPigeons]

This might've been brought up before, but I haven't seen any observations on this yet:

"Kikiyama" roughly translates to "Mountain/hill machine/equipment".
The area this music plays is under a large hill, filled with odd machinery.

[svkeeg]

this track reminds me one of those days when it's dark cloudy and you not sure it's morning or evening, the sky is full of clouds, the ground is wet and you will see a dark clouds coming from far distance.

[SpatsBats]

This song is so comforting to hear on loop with noise-cancelling headphones inside a dark room. I often feel like no one really takes the anxious feelings I go through about the pandemic on a daily basis seriously. It feels so, so demoralizing trying to explain yourself when it feels like no one listens without judgement. This song feels like it understands me. It understands the lonesome reality of this world and just exists, without judgement and without guilt. It just listens and in turn, I listen to it, letting my thoughts be washed away with the sounds of steam as I close my eyes in quiet meditation.

[marioandtyler]

The fact that you have to sleep in 3 different beds to get here makes me think that this has to be some really, REALLY screwed up stuff hidden within Madotsuki's mind. And that it's sad. I wonder what Mars-San represents, if anything...

[ghostrhythm]

This piano sticks with you so much, since there weren't music like this in the game before

[xJBx]

This whole game invokes a certain curiosity about existence and the possibility of there being more to our world than what we can see. . . . I love it.

[Soup.fan]

I remember I listened to this non stop when I found out my grandma died very suddenly from a stroke it embodied the strange quietness I felt in the world, the loss of someone is so quiet everything seems to stop around you, I imagined myself on a train going to nowhere in particular, nothing outside the windows except endless clouds sometimes there was nothing outside the windows but all I could imagine was this song it fit so perfectly

[seamtheshopkeeper]

My mom said this song reminds her of sea, waves, evening, late summer, nostalgia, i guess she has taste

[justpersonwhosaidalotofstu]

This song helps me cope.
I changed schools and Im dealing with a lot of trauma latley.
You see I dont really remeber what happened all I know is that people done bad things to me and I done bad things to people and myself.
I never really had a lot of friends and thankfully now I do. But I always feel like at the end of the day its just me. And Im all alone. When I lisen to this I feel like Im closed in a old room with broken radio and just echoing sounds of piano as I cry and look thru window.

This song helps me. Just proves the point that you can express a lot with just few tones and sounds.
I love this song because it makes me feel the sad fact that loneliness is part of my life and I just have to deal with it. idk I just love it

[carbonatedgasoline]

This makes me think of old places that i vaguely remember visiting as a kid, like an old house of mine or a gas station.

[trickyroad]

one of the few songs that doesn't scare me, but makes me reflect about things that happen and have happened to me in my life before.
this game gives such a relatable vibe behind it, thing that no other horror game has done to me before... just brilliant.

[coolasf]

this is how it feels to wake up first at the sleepover when everyone else is asleep and you’re just walking around their house