The City of the Sun | Horizon Zero Dawn Soundtrack

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Here’s how difficult all the covers for all the Free Roam Themes are:
1. Solace Beneath the Stars - This Theme is quite easy to get, and thankfully the first Section starts very late (if only Section 3 ends). However, the Sections are all over the place and can cause cases where you have to wait a long time to get it to be layered correctly.
2. The Embers in Our Wake - This Theme is quite easy to get to layer correctly since it’s only two parts, and the first Section is starts off fairly late but you’ll need to alert a Burrower to get the best version possible, which is pretty easy to do.
3. Where the Wanderer Goes - To rip the first section off carefully, you’ll need to alert a Burrower and then lose its sight while in a kelp, because both Sections have an equal chance of playing, this is pretty easy to do, and because the Ending Stingers are SO long, you can use that to get out of the kelp at the last second to get the Stealth Version instruments out of there, giving you the best Version of the Theme.
4. Off the Trail - This is pretty easy to rip out smoothly, don’t bother getting the Ending Stinger to play, it’s basically These Stones Unturned.
For A Steady Breath and These Stones Unturned, this is where the Rebel’s Rage Ending Stinger comes in:
Go to the Hollowrock, which is the first Rebel Camp in the game. So when a Free Roam Theme or Battle Theme ends, it will play the Rough Ending Stinger of Rebel’s Rage.
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The Ending Stinger of Free Roam Themes can randomly stop on its own if you’re lucky, if you are getting certain Themes that require the stingers, like Where the Wanderer Goes, Solace Beneath the Stars, etc, resetting the game is the only way to fix it.
5. These Stones Unturned - With the Rebel’s Rage Ending Stinger, it’s easy to rip out this OST smoothly without any problems.
6. A Steady Breath - Same goes for this Theme, especially when it came to dealing with Off the Trail’s Ending Stinger (I think it was These Stones Unturned, but the Stinger was Off the Trail… Oh well. 🙄) with the Rebel’s Rage Ending Stinger, it is easy to rip out this Theme. But if you want to get the Full OST Version (In-game Version + OST Version) you’ll have to get the Stealth Version of one, and the Alternate Map Version of the other. Then mash them together.
7. By the Cold Light of Stars - Same case with These Stones Unturned, you’ll need the Rebel’s Rage effect to get this Theme out smoothly without any problems.
8. Adrift - Same case with A Steady Breath, there are two Versions of this Theme.
9. Alone Before the World - This is a bit more like Solace Beneath the Stars, there are two Sections of this Theme, and because they’re separate and play along with By the Cold Light of Stars and Adrift, this will take a while to perfect.
10. Where None Should Tread - This is the hardest to rip out compared to the others. The first Section kicks in very early, so it can’t be perfect by just waiting, so you’ll need a Burrower for this to work, then hide in a kelp, hoping for not only the first Section to kick in, but for it to be layered correctly. There’s a saving grace to this though.
11. A Quiet Strength - This is the same as Solace Beneath the Stars, you’ll have to wait a while for it to be layered correctly.
12. Rumors in the West - This is also the same as Solace Beneath the Stars.
13. Time Twisted Around Metal - This is a bit tricky to get correctly, but it’s easy to do with a Battle Theme playing. Then, hide in the Mushroom, and keep shooting it until the Machine is completely oblivious of you. Then at some point, you will need to open the map to faint the Theme a bit.
14. Scrapped From Salt and Rust - This Theme is a lot trickier to pull off compared to Time Twisted Around Metal, because the Theme is divided by two Sections, and they loop together perfectly, the best way (in my opinion) to get this Theme is to do the Quest in the Spinebreak. But even when I uploaded the Theme, I started questioning whether all the instruments are present because there’s a Violin that plays at some point but is usually missing.
15. Marvels Below - This Theme is the easiest the rip out since it’s only one Section and there’s a delay between loops.
16. Sunken Cavern - This one is a bit tricky to get, since it loops perfectly, so your best bet will be to go for the Search and Destroy, then hope for the Theme to play, and then use the Map Version at the end to fade it out.
17. Drowned and Gone - This Theme is the same case as Marvels Below, if not easier because of how short it is.
18. KAPPA - This Theme is very weird, because the volume of most of the instruments are very low, with only the violin being audible.
19. Rusted Sands - I haven’t tried this yet but I’d imagine it’s very possible.
20. A Wager Over Barrels - This will require editing to put the different Versions together into one.
21. Wither and Ache - This Theme is certainly possible since the Theme that plays near the Cook is very quiet and gives the Theme time to kick in without any background noise, and then when the final part of the Theme kicks, leave Plainsong.
22. Every Secret, A Maze - This is certainly possible because of the overly long delay between the start and end.
23. Figments of Time - This Theme is impossible to rip out smoothly because the start kicks in the moment the Theme is about to end.
24. For His Amusement - In-game, this Mix is just not possible.
25. New Heights - Thankfully this is easy to manipulate, so you can combine the Versions to create the Mix with the Battle Version.
Which Free Roam Theme is your favorite?