Frogger and the Rumbling Ruins (Apple Arcade, 2022)

Game info: https://www.konami.com/games/frogger/rr/us/en/
Listening: extracted audio

Credits

Sound & Music Advisor: Tomohisa “Baiyon” Kuramitsu
Composers: Keisuke Ito, Ryo Shirasawa
Sounds Producer: Hideki Sakamoto
Sounds Director: Yuta Fukuda

Info

Small, lowkey soundtrack to an Apple Arcade puzzle game that caught my eye because of Ito’s involvement. Chill jungle vibes to get run over by a giant boulder to, with lots of percussion (hand and pitched) and synths. Some tracks sound a bit like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon music, which makes sense given that Ito is a prominent compositional voice in that series.

This game will never have a soundtrack release, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a full rip never gets uploaded to YouTube. Luckily, the game’s sound effects aren’t super intrusive, so it’s possible to listen to a lot of the game’s music comfortably just by watching a gameplay video, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aaVvkgQ2ZY

Recommended tracks:

  • Logic Ruins 1” is an ambient funk groove

  • Water Ruins Boss” has a really cool second half

  • 090 (don’t know where this plays in game or if it’s supposed to loop this way) just keeps stacking one repeating triplet-based rhythm on top of another, minimalist style

(track titles are unofficial)

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