Danse Macabre
In Alone in the dark videogame, the player must play the gramophone to move the ballroom dancers away from the pirates chest. The gramophone plays Danse Macabre. This track is popularised by the Jonathan Creek murder mystery TV series and would be an nice step into classical music from the outset of the game.
In the opera Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Death scene is an incredibly powerful piece (sends Goose pimples up the spine) and this track could be played on the death characters violin in the red room.
Visuals from this opera scene will inform the character design (but not entirely). Deaths instrument of choice here is a burning sword!
